Decay of Eastown Theater by Mike Boening
…Surrendered to entropy.
The Eastown Theater in Detroit opened its doors in 1931 as a 2,500-seat movie palace, designed for featuring “talking pictures.” After nearly four decades, its life as a movie theater ended.
Shortly thereafter, it reopened as one of Detroit’s biggest rock venues, featuring acts such as The Doors, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull and The Kinks. And, with rock and roll, came drugs.
The powers that be put the theater under investigation, and in 1973, shuttered it, ostensibly due to health and safety code violations. Later attempts to resurrect this grand relic have failed, and it has been surrendered to entropy.
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Mike Boening is a Metro Detroit based artist who calls himself a “Photographer at Large.” Finding and documenting images in the city of Detroit is his main focus, in more particular Urban Exploration. If not trying to document history you likely will find Mike covering an event for Detroit Metro Convention Bureau. His website, where contact information can be found, is here.