Video: Once-venerable Eastown Theatre comes crashing down
The video includes music from a Grateful Dead performance at the theater in 1971.
25 photos chronicling the demise of the Eastown Theatre in Detroit
Goodbye, Eastown Theatre.
Video: Demo crews raze Eastown Theatre’s legendary stage
A demolition crew toppled the stage and interior of the once-elegant Eastown Theatre on Detroit’s east side on Tuesday, bringing down power lines with it.
Video: Scrappers have devoured historic Eastown Theatre in Detroit
Photographer Robert Monaghan captured this video showing the devastation caused by scrappers.
Brazen scrappers destroy roof of abandoned Eastown Theatre in Detroit
The ornamental, dome ceiling on the long-abandoned Eastown Theatre in Detroit has collapsed as scrappers continue to remove steel beams from the historic movie palace.
Scrappers cause collapse of ornamental ceiling in storied Eastown Theatre in Detroit
The 2,500-seat theater once hosted the Kinks, the Who, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Steppenwolf, King Crimson, MC5 and the Stooges.