#rencen

[coloursteelsexappeal]

[walkingdetroit]

Mini Picnic by the River

[petoskeystones]

however on the topic of the rencen. one of the comically detroit memories from my childhood is when my dad (advertiser with a detroit firm) would go to the rencen for meetings with gm people and run into my uncle (advertiser with a different detroit firm) in the elevator on his way to a different meeting with different gm people. or they'd make eye contact through the glass walls of two different meeting rooms in two different gm advertising meetings. or both be at the people mover station together. etc

[abandonedography]

The RenCen through the roof of the Packard Plant. (source)

[bookwyrminspiration]

Reefe rencen

I’ve actually never watched scooby dooby is this right

[acheronist]

can you make sparknotes for the Red Wings players they are all the same person to me (sorry)

dw my darling i got you 🫡 here's the regular 23 man roster we've been skating this szn

forwards (+ this is going to be the number they wear on their jerseys, not their age)

jt compher (37) - won a cup whilst he was on the colorado avalanche (red wings long time beloathed nemesis rivals team), attended umich hockey with larkin and copp. deadpan dry asf tenderhearted weirdo. very good at hockey i like him

andrew copp (18) - 🎶get up and g-get down, 911 is a joke in your town🎶, local michigander boy playing for his hometown team, attended umich with compher and larkin, kind of fuck ugly but he's gritty and has a lot of love in his heart so we like him

alex debrincat (93) - another local michigander boy playing for his hometown team, really good at hockey, we rescued him from the ottawa senators (red wings short term/very recent beloathed nemesis rival team) and he likes it here more, haha lol lmao even. good at hockey!! kind of a sniper. also kind of fighty which is hilarious because he's about 9 inches shorter than the average nhl player. new dad and really loves it, brings his family to games all of the time. and he was our all star games representative this year !

robby fabbri (14) - how are you going to be a short italian-canadian kind of bisexual professional hockey player who mixes metals and has a standing eyebrow appointment. please pick a struggle. won the stanley cup w/ st louis and then got abandoned for being 'injury prone' and was sent to detroit in a 1 for 1 trade (the most humiliating of all nhl player trades imo). he and larkin and rasmussen are the only men left standing from the red wing's historic worst-ever season in 2019 where every game they looked like they were going to kill themselves.

christian fischer (36) - new bestie alert! huge locker room guy. okay at hockey (more of a playmaker than a goalscorer) but he's so fucking sillygoofy and funny i love to see this guy on my team. spent most of his career in arizona iirc, and basically he and gostisbehere came from the coyotes directly to the red wings as a buy one get one free deal.

patrick kane (88) - narcissict. arrogant. flop. old man who can't score anymore. history of assault and violent misdemeanors he never was punished for because he was the nhl's boytoy a decade ago. i hope he contracts sepsis from an unforeseen complication with his hip surgery and takes a long walk off of the rencen's roof and lands in the detroit river where he is frozen and then chopped up by an industrial ship's propeller. fuck this guy.

klim kostin (24) - beloved enforcer. used to skate for the edmonton oilers. his entire game is based around slotting in on the third/fourth line when necessary and whenever someone gets hurt he comes out swinging to establish the fact that the red wings are not to be fucked with. he doesn't start fights but he does finish them. notoriously big hearted and silly with his teammates. coincidentally wearing the same number as the red wings most famous enforcer from the 1980s, bob probert. my guard dog boy i love u

dylan larkin (71) - michigan native, umich grad, was the previous captain's rookie, the beating heart and soul of the team, carrying the weight of a century year old hockey team's legacy and all the ghosts that come along with that, never been to playoffs and hasn't won the cup yet. literally the miserable boyking of metro detroit. he's had to suffer a lot for absolutely no reason, but still manages to come and be our best and most important player every single night.

david perron (57) - he's old by nhl standards i.e. he's in his late thirties and has been playing for like a decade, so he knows his way around an nhl rink. french canadian enough that he's got an accent. big heart and soul guy, which i really wasn't expecting tbh! he's always standing up for teammates and has gotten in a few noteworthy fights (dylan got hurt so badly this szn that dp went rage-blind and ended up getting suspended for six games after fighting the opponents who hurt dylan)

michael rasmussen (27) - big fuck off scary intimidating canadian hockey lad. kind of awkward and bizarre. also kind of a doll if i can b honest. he's very shy and quiet in interviews but always has an insane serial killer look in his eyes whenever he's on the ice. was drafted high and then i suspect he had a lot of mental struggles about not being the player he was advertised/told to be? but the last few years he's stepped away from that role he thought he should be and started being himself and playing in a way that was obviously more comfortable, and he's taken huge huge productive strides and improved a lot. moose ily

lucas raymond (23) - our youngest babiest player!! he was our highest draft pick in a looooooooong time, and immediately went from prospect training camp -> regular nhl player, which is fucking crazy. he's exceptionally good at hockey, and has a reputation for coming in clutch with goals we need to win games. besties with moritz seider + jake walman + joe veleno.

daniel sprong (17) - i had no idea what to think of this guy at first but now i can't believe he's only been here for one season. it feels like he's been a wing for ages. he's one of our sniper goalscorers, except he shoots the puck with a lil too much sauce + with a feral desperation of a man afraid he was never going to score a goal again, every single time, which i love. also he stalks twitter and runs a team GC to forward memes that the fandom makes to the guys

joe veleno (90) - if bambi was a closeted italian canadian hockey player. wears an evil eye bracelet and also a crucifix? very meek and easy to bully, tbh, not our most productive goalscorer but also somehow he's very crucial to the emotional well being of the younger half of the roster? hes sillygoofy and a sweetheart and does his best every night which is all we can ask tbh. besties with lucas raymond + moritz seider + jake walman.

defensemen

ben chiarot (8) - resident manwhore dilf fashionista who knows he's sexy and loves to be a bitch on the ice. loves to be annoying and distracting @ the opponents during plays so the red wings can have space to move.

shayne gostisbehere (41) - escaped florida man turned into an nhler, sleeper agent defensive weapon that people tend to forget about. always busting his ass up and down the blue line. always looks sopping wet and really sad though? loves to shoot the puck and sometimes it even makes it to the net!

justin holl (3) - i'm hesistant to describe him as "good at hockey" but the boys seem to love him + he's silly enough to engage in the locker room antics + i've noticed him dealing out more hits lately which is always good.

olli maatta (2) - very very very steady in the most boring way possible. does his job and not an ounce more than necessary LOL but it's fine because he's good at what he does? a classic defensive defenseman.

jeff petry (46) - not… good? at hockey? but he is also a michigan native playing for the hometown team, and he's a veteran nhler, and he's a gritty sort of guy, so i like having him. he grew up in detroit proper, as well, because his dad played on the detroit tigers baseball team, so there's a lot of michigan sports lore going on in that household. also his kids are silly + love to come to games

moritz seider (53) - my sweet perfect darling defenseman prodigy. won the calder trophy because he was the most special and talented rookie in his first year in the nhl. breaking team records for defensemen at an alarming rate. was dylan's rookie, and is also frequently mentored by red wings defense legends. he's not a rookie anymore but you can still see how much responsibility he's shouldering and how much he takes after dylan's role modeled behavior/team legacy standards. good at handling tough responsibility vs staying silly anyways. hes my shining star and i luv him. generally he's paired up with jake walman on defense and they're a little bit married because of it. besties with lucas raymond + jake walman + joe veleno.

jake walman (96) - another guy who st louis abandoned and then ended up on the red wings and said "i want to spend my entire life and career in this city" . extremely silly. known for hitting the griddy whenever he scores important goals. big on video games + making tiktoks. tremendous locker room vibes guy, and very emotional and serious about proving his place on detroit's blue line. generally he's paired up with moritz seider on defense and they're a little bit married because of it. besties with moritz seider + lucas raymond + joe veleno.

goalies

ville husso (35) - looks like a haunted little porcelain doll. always sopping wet for some reason. very softspoken and european. mid-good level goalie, kind of needs to prove himself a bit now that alex lyon's gone completely off the shits and taken over starter goalie privileges, but i feel like there's no sense of animosity or competition between them? ville just strikes me as genuinely someone who's delighted and proud of his tandem partners for their successes, even if it comes at his expense / losing some of his chances to get ahead

james reimer (47) - idc about this man lol. he's either a very good goalie or an atrociously horrible goalie and you dont know what it'll be until the games already happening. passively homophobic christian behavior as well which i do not like to see. but he's also a veteran nhl player so in the beginning of the szn he was getting more opportunity than alex or ville.

alex lyon (34) - spent his entire career in the minor league/being traded between franchises where there wasn't really a space or need for him. got on the radar after keeping the florida panthers in their playoff race before losing, and then FL traded him to us. we've had goaltending agonies for years and then he's rolled up to detroit with something to fucking PROVE because he thought his hockey career was about to be over so he's skating every night like its do or die. after reimer and husso both were injured tho he finally got his chance to shine and oh baby he's been shining. unbelievably good at goaltending. big heart, very genuine, very funny, basically a male model as well, been to therapy and actually got something out of it, i would go to war for this man if he needed me to

[ryanellisphoto]

#269 - Detroit Street Photography Session #269 - Saturday, January 14th, 2022 - Nikkor 35mm f/2 (ca. 1981) et Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 (ca. 1981) et Tokina 17mm f/3.5 (ca. 198?) - Lee Canady sings Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”- Renaissance Center from a hill - Most Holiest Trinosophies in Eastern Market on Gratiot Avenue - Yellow Black Arrow Sign - GM Building - RenCen from Greektown - Blue Cross Blue Shield twin buildings - Michigan Avenue - National Coney Island - Lafayette Coney Island - Lafayette Street - Park Sign Parking Garage - Simmons and Clark Jewelers - Bulova Watches - Credit or Cash - Three Black Beauties - Alley Way Sirens - Parking Garage Rappers - Hip Hop Music Video - Behind the scenes 

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ஜ۩۞۩ஜ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬   Lee sang “My Way”

I traversed Detroit by faith

Great compositions fell into my aim

Though long, ‘twas a fine day

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I visited Lee Canady at his museum-like Detroit apartment and recorded on camera and microphones Lee singing Frank Sinatra’s signature song, “My Way.” Two GREAT takes resulted, and I am (at the time of this typing) working on a backing arrangement for Lee’s version of the song. 

This was a fruitful day in Detroit, and I am BEYOND EAGER to get out there again and make a better set of shots to show for the kind of work that I do. It has been too long of a wait since the last time I did a PROPER street photography walk around Detroit. It is not just the time spent; it is the quality of the place (visually, etc.) visited while photographing. 

I met new people and old pals. 

[steamedtangerine]

from Detroit Monthly December 1990

Harmony House was a chain of record stores in SE Michigan It was one of the few that still offered actual records when many other stores and chains strayed from that older medium. It also doubled as a Ticketmaster ticket sales outlet (They allowed cash, though lines were out the door on on-sale days, and they never told the customer what seating they got until all was committed-they provided a map though of the seating as an afterthought. If one ordered their tickets as charge by phone, you were told the exact seating offered before the purchase was completed but no map of seating was ever provided to the phone sales agents to explain where exactly that was.)

There were Harmony Houses in choice locations (including one in the RenCen buiding) , and a few of my friends worked at a few locations.They were quite good at ordering rare items.

 Harmony House lasted until the early 2000s.

[agalova]

Urban landscape

RenCen View, Jacquelyn Block In a few weeks we will be visiting the River Walk for our final Paint-out of the summer. I thought I should finally paint this view of the Renaissance Center from Milliken State Park. Last year’s paintout was on a beautiful sunny day with a few puffy white clouds to make for a more interesting sky. I had my youngest son with me so we didn’t stay at any one location…

[purpleparrot]

mark my words if they demolish the rencen it is either going to become under-utlized retail (a la the district detroit) or luxury apartments with 5k a month rent

[walkingdetroit]

Summer in the City

[becklophoto]

Good to see that there was a point in time where they actually decorated the interior of the RenCen.

Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center (1977)

Designed by John Portman & Associates

Scanned from the Dec. 1977 issue of Contract Interiors Magazine

[ramtracking]

GM says it will move headquarters from RenCen to Hudson's site in 2025 [ Detroit ]

GM says it will move headquarters from RenCen to Hudson’s site in 2025 [News Summary] Automaker to work with Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock on the future of the iconic, 47-year-old complex along Detroit’s riverfront. General Motors Co. said Monday it will relocate its corporate headquarters next year to a new real estate development in Detroit. General Motors announced Monday afternoon that it is…

[otoseyir]

GM plans to move HQ from RenCen to new skyscraper in downtown Detroit

For GM, the deal makes the automaker a long-term fixture in the revival of Detroit’s downtown, which billionaire Dan Gilbert has been spearheading by acquiring and developing 45 major office, retail and hospitality properties.

[acheronist]

me acting like i don't think the rencen is the ugliest building in the detroit skyline

[reasoningdaily]

this is the revolving restaurant and lounge at the top of the RenCen. the food was overpriced and not great but the view and ambiance was everything - especially at night for cocktails when they had live jazz

Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center (1977) designed by John Portman & Associates. Scanned from the Dec. 1977 issue of Contract Interiors Magazine

via architecture of doom