[Tax-chick]

Detroit’s Vanity Ballroom with its unsalvaged art deco chandeliers

I don't understand why the furniture and fixtures in these places have not been salvaged. I want the chairs from the Presbyterian Church!

[Neidermeyer]

I don’t understand why the furniture and fixtures in these places have not been salvaged. I want the chairs from the Presbyterian Church!

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They’re just too difficult to trade for crack.

[okie01]

I don't understand why the furniture and fixtures in these places have not been salvaged. I want the chairs from the Presbyterian Church!

People (and institutions and corporations) just walked away from them when either a.) the taxes became too burdensome and/or b.) city services (police, fire) collapsed.

There was no market within the county for the fixtures which were left behind.