@SantaFe158 posted:Thanks! The exterior of the theater is still more or less as your picture shows it although improvements through restoration are slowly being made as money allows. The interior thankfully is no longer as you likely recall and has been returned back to pretty close to its original state. "Updates" during and after World War Two had done a number on the place and it wasn't even a shadow of its former self when our group began restoration efforts 35 years ago.
I understand all the supposedly hateful Japanese-themed interiors were covered over and/or demolished during WW2. I can barely remember what the place looked like. I was in SE Michigan to see my brother and visit my father's gravesite, I think in 1976. And my last visit to the area was maybe 5-6 years ago, when plans were announced to demolish Redford High School and replace it with a Meier's. Here's a photo of my Dad at Redford—he was a teacher and coach, when the school was whites only:
