Michigan 2017
Ronny Salerno Ronny Salerno

Michigan 2017

Photographs and stories made while traversing the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

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Six Degrees of Abandoned Amusement Parks
Ronny Salerno Ronny Salerno

Six Degrees of Abandoned Amusement Parks

Over the years, some of the most incredible abandoned places I've photographed have been defunct amusement parks. The six locations featured on this site all have a historical link to each other ...sort of.

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Combat Stupendous Reunion Tour
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Combat Stupendous Reunion Tour

Photographs from a road trip that somewhat reunited a high school band and took us from Cincinnati to ruins in Detroit to Lake Michigan and back.

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How an Abandoned Zoo Made it to the Silver Screen
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How an Abandoned Zoo Made it to the Silver Screen

On October 7, "Real Steel" will hit theaters. Set in the "near future," the film stars that guy who played "Wolverine" in X-Men as a former boxer who now plays major league Rock'em Sock'em Robots in Detroit. That's what I gathered from the trailer and Wikipedia anyways.

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The Mighty Motor City - Part 1: Ferris Elementary
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The Mighty Motor City - Part 1: Ferris Elementary

"Hide your 'whiteness,'" was a piece of advice uttered to me just before we crept through an open field that was once filled with kids enjoying their recess from school. "What? Really?" I replied to our guide.

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It's So Cold in the D.
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It's So Cold in the D.

As I was driving on 75 North with Gozer, we joked about the homemade hip hop song and music video that became an internet sensation (and that this post is named after). One would hardly think that the monotone singing and offbeat lyrics are actually for a serious song about "T Baby's" deceased brother and infant son, hence why the "D (Detroit)" is "So Cold." Ironically for us though, the D would in fact be cold although in terms of temperature, not personal tragedy.

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