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Detroit, 2012

>> No.3116071
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2/?

>> No.3116073

>>3116067

I used to love these ruin pictures.

>> No.3116074
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>African American literature

>> No.3116076

If I was there I'd snap a few pictures then load up a cart with books I wanted.

>> No.3116078

The illiterates of Detroit razed the local library? Or is it really that shit now? Reminds me of North Korea (best korea)

>> No.3116080

>>3116076
same

There was an old working men's club near where I live and I heard from a guy who used to go there that it used to be a library and that they took down all the books and stored them in the attic.

I paid them a visit to see if I could get the books out if they were'nt using them and they told me they'd thrown them all in the recycling a couple of months later.

It's a shame that people don't value them more, even if it's just in terms of selling them on the cheap or handing them out for free

>> No.3116083

>>3116078
Detroit, from what I've read, is pretty much run by blacks after their industries collapsed, and reading and preservation of landmarks is therefore not high on the priority list

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>> No.3116088
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I like this one.

>> No.3116086

>>3116080
*earlier

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>> No.3116104

>>3116067
Loot it.
I'm goddamn serious, I'm a bastard.
They'll probably just through them away, anyway, because of water damage.

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7/?

>> No.3116108

>>3116083
Go back to /pol/
These are pictures of an ex-public library, it has nothing to do with your racial inferiority complex

>> No.3116109

>>3116103
I can imagine people going through the books "Look, in all of them, some must surely contain food or something useful"

>> No.3116110

>>3116106
>Do not attempt to re-shelve books
It's nice to know straight up that they think we're retards.

>> No.3116112

>>3116104
I agree. These are from various libraries btw.

>>3116108
>nothing to do with
Sure.

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8/?

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This one isn't /lit/ related, but holy fuck that's a nice picture

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Book depository

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>>3116108

>Go back to /pol/

muh DIK!

>> No.3116170

>>3116110
it's essential that you do not do this, misplacing a book means it's lost FOOOORRREEEEVVVVEEEERRR, my librarian told me

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>all dem free books.


I honestly thought these pics were of Chernobyl for a second.

>> No.3116177

>>3116088
That looks too much like the final scene of The Human Centipede.

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Holy shit, Detroit really is going through Mad Max times isn't it?

Moe was right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aOWZSzxEEA

>> No.3116226

>>3116118
What is/was the purpose of this building?

>> No.3116250

>>3116226
former Police headquarters

>> No.3116253

>>3116226
not the person who dropped that pic but I believe that was an ammunition factory.

>> No.3116260

>>3116250
>>3116253
Thanks, but neither of you were right ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Station
Hope it gets renovated

>> No.3116273

God damn I'm jelly.
Would /k/-up and loot libraries, galleries, danish design stores.

>> No.3116278

>>3116110
Well, people are retarded. They seriously don't realize how shitty it is for them to just half-assedly reshelve their shit in the wrong places. They should have a fucking guy at the entrance of the library personally remind everyone not do that annoying shit

>> No.3116281

>muh books

>> No.3116303

Oh how I wish I could raid that place

>> No.3116346

Which buildings were the ones that contained books? I'm not too far from Detroit and a raid would relieve some boredom.

>> No.3116376

3/4 of Detroit is ruins inhabited by savages anyway.

>> No.3116380

3/4 of Detroit are ruins inhabited by savages anyway.

>> No.3116388

>>3116278
Fucking this. Sometimes I'd go looking for a book that was supposed to be on the shelf and end up finding it on an entirely fucking different shelf. If it weren't for the fact that I had a fucking half hour to spend to just browse through an entire section of the library looking for things that look interesting I never would have found the book I actually wanted, and there would be no way for the library staff to know where the book is either short of doing an entire library audit.

>> No.3116397

>>3116346
Just google 'Detroit Abondoned libraries'

Most of the pictures are from last year so they should still be there, although they are likely to be damp or rotten.

The pics I posted are from one of the central libraries, a couple of abandoned high schools libraries, and the book depository