Dolphin Street
10 April 2005
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The 13500 block of Dolphin Street, Detroit, MI 48223
Looking south down Dolphin Street with the freeway to my back.
Looking northwest across the Jeffries Freeway, I-96
Behind the facility that pumps water off the freeway into the river
The spillway for discharging stormwater from the freeway
The riverbank south of the pump house
The bridge where Outer Drive crosses the Rouge River
Looking east down Outer Drive with the bridge at my back
Bounded by I-96 on the north, Outer Drive on the east and south, and the Rouge River on the west.
i happen to see your blog through ringsurf as i intend to enlist all muslim bloggers. nice blog gregor. r u in malaysia now?
[...] The second set of pictures is from our block in Detroit where I lived for about ten years. Finding the block on Google Earth was not as startling since I visited there not long before I left for Malaysia and took a number of photos. The aerial view is still neat though. I especially like how the freeway looks so clean and orderly from the sky. How deceptive. [...]
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