Exploring The David Broderick Tower (2005)

A few people I met on livejournal wanted to meet up in Detroit to explore The David Broderick Tower. The tower is known for it's huge whale mural and at 34 stories, was the tallest abandoned building at the time. At first our best method for entering the building was by crawling across a second-story connecting beam from the adjacent buidling, but someone in the group had a better idea.

The Broderick wasn't totally abandoned, on the ground level was a dive bar. When nobody was looking, we snuck behind the stage curtains and found an unlocked glass door. The door lead directly into the abandoned lobby of the Broderick. From there we made our way up the building floor by floor until eventually reaching the penthose suite at the top and then the roof.

Every floor was unique - one floor was a dentist office, another was an optometrist, and one looked like it played host to a recent fetish event. There were also several underground floors, one had a fully stocked cold war era bomb shelter while the lowest level was completely flooded in 6 feet of water.