The location of this school is at the end of the post
I love the smell of Detroit in the morning!
At the end of the 2007 school year, Jane Cooper Elementary (built in 1920) was left unsecured in the middle of the wasteland where a middle-class neighbourhood once stood. It took “scrappers” only a few months to strip the building of every last ounce of metal and leave it looking as though it hadn’t been occupied for decades. Photos by James Griffioen.
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Sort of kills the surprise having the name in the URL and the title.
I think I’ve seen photos of places in Chernobyl that look better. Ouch.
almost scary
Yes, this was a fail on your part. Having the name of the school and city in the URL. Quite interesting photos, still.
Yeah, the title saying “Jane Cooper Elementary in Detroit” was kind of a give-away.
Is that the whaaaambulance coming?!
Do you want some ketchup with your french cries?
Hm, I was gonna guess somewhere in Africa.
Is there really a difference?
These photos are from a multitude of different Detroit schools, and several are of the Roosevelt Warehouse. If you are going to repost somebody elses work, at least get the data right.
Yeah really that’s not all from Janecooper school…a few of those places truly have been abandoned for decades
Not one of the photos are of the Jane Cooper School.
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The pictures with the adandoned books and total messed up classrooms are freaky.
That second picture is definitely not from the school.
This is what happens when blacks become the majority – totally regressive and decay ridden.
In 1947 I went to this school from kindergarten to 6th grade. In 1953 I then went on to Burroughs Junior High from 7th to 9th grade. I then moved on to Highschool. I drove by cooper many years ago and it was still running. Kids were out and I never saw 1 white face. The neighborhood that I grew up in is no longer there How sad. What happened? The blacks took over Belle Isle and then Detroit. I hope they’re happy. It is saddening to drive through the city streets and downtown and even the roads are terrible. We never had year books in cooper and now I wish we did. By the way…I still have my autograph book from Cooper. Ahh Such memories