JHK’s Three-Act Play
Google Street Views of the Motor City
Released: May, 21, 2009.
At the suggestion of a listener caller, James Howard Kunstler gives a virtual walking tour of Detroit, Michigan using Google Street View. Google Street View is an interactive photographic map that allows users to view photographs of streets and buildings in many cities throughout the world. Users can follow along with this program using the embedded Google Street View windows below. During this “walking” tour, Kunstler examines the Michigan Central Depot Train Station, Tiger Stadium, the Renaissance Center, the People Mover, The Joe Louis Arena (aka the Aztec Maw of Death), The Grand Circus, the Fillmore and Fox theaters, and the Detroit waterfront.
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INSTRUCTIONS: Hover your mouse over the Google Street View windows below. Click the arrows on the window to move up and down the street. Click the window to change your view. Double click to zoom in. Click the box in the right-hand corner for full screen view.
Destination 1: Michigan Central Station, 2198 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI
Instructions:
Look south for train station.
Head east on Michigan Ave.
(at Rosa Parks Blvd. there is a glitch. Switch to next viewing window)
Destination 1 (cont.): Michigan Ave to Tiger Stadium
Instructions:
Continue east on Michigan Ave. to Tiger Stadium at 1676 Michigan Ave.
Continue east for a few clicks.
Destination 2: The Renaissance Center, 378 Beaubien St., Detroit, MI
Instructions:
Look south for Renaissance Center
Look north for People Mover
Head north on Beaubien St. to E. Jefferson Ave.
Head west on E. Jefferson Ave.
Google Street glitch. Switch viewing window to continue west on E. Jefferson Ave.
Destination 2 (cont.): East Jefferson Ave.
Instructions:
Continue West on E. Jefferson St.
Destination 3: Joe Louis Arena, 678 CIvic Center Drive, Detroit, MI
Instructions:
Head east on Civic Center Drive
At 546 Civic Center Drive, look at entrance to arena to north, river is to south.
Destination 4: The Grand Circus, 1556 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI
Instructions:
Head north on Woodward Ave. (Grand Circus begins at 1588)
Note: Church at 2000 Woodward Ave.
Staduim to right at 2048 Woodward Ave.
Fillmore Theater on left at 2122 Woodward Ave.
Fox Theater on left at 2244 Woodward Ave.
Destination 5: Riverfront, 392 Atwater St., Detroit, MI
Instructions:
Turn north to see backside of Renasaince Center and promonade.
Head east up Atwater St.
Parking deck at 484 Atwater St.
Surface parking at 626 Atwater St.
Cab drivers at 724 Atwater St.
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