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I grew up in Troy, Michgan. During my childhood Lego was by far my favorite toy.
I obtained a BS in Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
I have been interested in architecture, especially that of Detroit, for a long time. Unfortunately I had little interest in photography until recently so I missed out on a lot of opportunities to photograph buildings that are now gone or are in a ruinous state. I only took a few pictures with a cheap camera. I may scan then in and post them even if they have little merit as photography.
I have recently begun to build with Lego again. I had given up Lego around the age when most kids had - at about 15 years old. Many years later I have started up again and I find the act of building to be a theraputic release of stress. I have combined my interest in Detroit architecture with the Lego to create some replicas of some of the buildings of Detroit. I have other interests but these are the ones that I choose to share via flickr.
I have a few Detroit memories that perhaps some people who are familiar with the area might find slightly interesting.
My fraternal grandparents were members of the Detroit Boat Club. I remember exploring every inch of that very interesting (Spanish revival) building and attending the Sunday afternoon brunches in the dining room. It was like a trip back in time with white patrons being served by black waiters. Later we would look at all the boats and yachts in the marina. I find it very sad that this fine structure is now abandonded and decaying.
I remember a trip to the downtown Hudsons around 1970 to see "Santa Claus" just before Christmas. I bought my stero system from the downtown Hudsons around 1983; it still works. It was also sad to see the store close and later suffer the indignity of the the largest implosion in demolition history.
My father is a member of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit (MHSD) which used to have meetings at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle. When I was a teenager, he would take me to a MHSD meetings; driving downtown on Woodward, I recall seeing only a few stores still open, mostly wigshops. The Dossin Museum at the time was full of rows of old ship models; most are gone today, replaced by exhibits apparently designed to appeal to more visitors.
I am not currently an "urban explorer" but I nevertheless I have been inside the Michigan Central Station (MCS) - as a paying Amtrak customer. Of course that was back around 1984 a few years before the station closed; if I had known what was going to happen to the station, I would have taken a copious amount of photographs.
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- Train Festival 2009 359 photos, 48 members
- Curbed Detroit Photo Pool 380 photos, 39 members
- Brick Architecture 218 photos, 52 members
- Albert Kahn, Architect 194 photos, 42 members
- Historic Michigan Homes 27 photos, 3 members
- Michigan's Au Sable River 240 photos, 46 members
- MichLUG/LTC 267 photos, 13 members
- Brush Park, Detroit 1,403 photos, 59 members
- BestOfDetroit 1,855 photos, 98 members
- LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition 184 photos, 59 members
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- Find Me, Belle 114 photos, 169 members
- Hello, My Name Is Detroit 88 photos, 10 members
- Attractive Bank Buildings 1,291 photos, 188 members
- Keith Goldman is Awesome 16 photos, 59 members
- Save Michigan Central Station!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Detroit Michigan 1,437 photos, 326 members
- Canton, Michigan 2,444 photos, 66 members
- Dan Steininger is Awesome 153 photos, 57 members
- Southern California Lego Convention 1 photo, 68 members
- Joe Meno is Awesome 114 photos, 56 members
- Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village 3,714 photos, 227 members
- LEGO City Skyline 669 photos, 117 members
- SCI-LUG 8,646 photos, 789 members
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- Art-Deco 7,245 photos, 417 members
- SkyscraperPage 4,034 photos, 395 members
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- Leelanau County 1,780 photos, 60 members
- Grosse Pointe, MI 755 photos, 48 members
- Houses with Towers 5,906 photos, 552 members
- Victorian Style Homes 7,315 photos, 978 members
- Urban Nature 167,788 photos, 25,739 members
- LEGO Ambassadors 1,645 photos, 547 members
- Detroit Fire Department / DFD 535 photos, 75 members
- A Michigan Home 85 photos, 187 members
- LUGNuts 9,726 photos, 663 members
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- Name:
- Jim Garrett
- Joined:
- July 2006
- Hometown:
- Troy, Michigan
- Currently:
- USA
- I am:
- Male and Taken
- Occupation:
- Programmer











