Detroit Photo of the Day

[Allan]

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Lafayette Coney Island is a great place is spend at any time of the night...you've got to love 24 hour restaurants.

[ZachariahDaMan]

cool picture

[Michi]

Were you there Monday night, Allan? I was at the American after the Red Wings game.

[Allan]

I was there on Friday night, Saturday night, and Monday night. I have never actually been in American Coney Island. It closes at 2:00...which is inconvenient at 4:00am.

[statedude3]

How long have the two cony joints been at their locations? I was debating this with someone earlier today. I could swear that Lafayette has been there since at least the 50's (according to accounts I've heard). I'm not sure about American.

[Jin Kim]

Lafayette and American since 1917

http://detroit.metblogs.com/archives/2005/...ney_divid.phtml

More here.

Edited October 18, 2005 by Jin Kim

[Aaron]

American's been there since 1917, according to their website.

[Zissou]

Were you there Monday night, Allan? I was at the American after the Red Wings game.

I was at that game as well. I thought that was one of the best back and forth hockey games Ive ever seen. Never knew who was gonna win it until Fischer got the goal.

[Allan]

So apparently American Coney Island is open 24 hours too (at least according to their website). For whatever reason I thought they closed at 2:00. That's good to know...maybe we'll try American next time we're down there. Although I have a feeling that if we do, we'll end up back at Lafayette. You've gotta love the mint green walls in there! It would be a tragedy if they redecorated.

Just look for the group of college students eating pie at 2:00am and messing around with cameras.

[tapezord]

So apparently American Coney Island is open 24 hours too (at least according to their website). For whatever reason I thought they closed at 2:00.

...i was gonna say, I definatly remember eating there on many a drunken night.... after the bars closed!

[Michi]

I was at that game as well. I thought that was one of the best back and forth hockey games Ive ever seen. Never knew who was gonna win it until Fischer got the goal.

Oh, I wasn't at the game, just at the Coney. lol

A guy and his son were sitting at the table next to me with RW jerseys on, and they told me the game was a really good one...in overtime!

[baldy]

Taken on Oct 8

[ZachariahDaMan]

Nice pictures

[RustTown]

The 1001 Ramp is a honest-to-goodness high-rise building. lol

It still waits to be seen if they actually retrofitted it to expand upwards with office/residential floors. From what I hear, they can add up to 13 stories of office or residential space to the top of the thing.

I wonder what the facade is going to look like? I keep hearing rumors, but no rendering was ever released.

[Allan]

The 1001 ramp looks rather nice, IMO, even if it is a parking skyscraper. The first couple of floors are white, then the top of the garage is the brown color shown in Baldy's photo. The top bays have gently curved arches. There has been a rendering of the garage inside 1001 for months now. I did actually walk in there to look at it one day (finally). Based on what I've seen and heard, they've scrapped the idea of putting residential on top at some point.

I meant to take photos of it on Friday after I went to Cafe Detroit one last time before it closed, but my hour-long visit to the cafe ended up being a 4 hour visit. It is times like this when I swear that Detroit is a small town, not a large city. Almost everyone I knew popped in there at some point during the time I was there. I guess Sunday morning coffee will now have to be at Brown Bean Cafe....

[hudkina]

Considering there are small towns with more retail than downtown Detroit, it's no surprise.

BTW, do they plan on leaving the windows in the 1001 garage open?

[Michi]

The garage has windows? I didn't notice any. I think the facade is just about finished, except for the class-covered stairwells.

The one garage I completely dispise is the new one next to Nikki's in Greektown. O.M.G., it's ugly!!

[hudkina]

I meant do they plan on leaving the openings as they are or do they plan on putting a decorative feature or something in place?

[Allan]

I'm not sure, but it would be nice if they'd put glass in the openings.

[Michi]

I just drove by, and it did appear that there was frames being put on the lower openings, which led me to believe that the bottom (if not, the whole structure) will have windows.

[RustTown]

Can someone see if they can get a shot of this looking directly west (southwest, really)? I still can't really get the feel for this thing despite it easily being one of the tallest things going up downtown, right now. I would be surprised to find that it's as tall, if not taller, than One Kennedy Square. lol

[Jin Kim]

I would be surprised to find that it's as tall, if not taller, than One Kennedy Square. lol

Yeah, I think it is taller.

[Michi]

Here's one for the day:

We'll call it

"I see right through you."

[ZachariahDaMan]

Amazing picture!

[hudkina]

It's not a very flattering shot of Detroit. He managed to catch our polluting industries, our abandoned train station, our projects, and really ugly student housing.

Edited October 25, 2005 by hudkina