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Old Glory

The story of Detroit's precipitous decline, from America's most prosperous manufacturing city in the 1950s to an emblem of near-apocalyptic urban blight, is not new. But with every passing year, the city's landscape speaks with an increasingly haunted eloquence of Detroit's past splendor, while raising hard questions about its future. Pictured: An abandoned church basement in Detroit, November, 2009.

Photo: Keith Marlowe for LIFE.com

Feb 04, 2010
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