  Mind_field Member Username: Mind_field Post Number: 593 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.38.24.65 |
I don't think I've ever seen a thread on this subject so here it is. Which downtown fountain is your favorite? Exactly how many fountains (outdoor) does downtown have? I count 7 outdoor(soon to be 8 with Bagley fountian), and 3 indoor but I know I've got to be missing some. My favorite fountain is probably the one in Hart Plaza whenever it's working. Best indoor water feature is no doubt Compuware's waterfall, followed closely by the International Center waterfall. 1. Campus Martius fountain 2. Grand Circus west fountain 3. Grand Circus east fountain 4. Harmonie Park fountain 5. One Woodward fountain 6. Hart Plaza fountain 7. GM plaza fountain | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 76 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 35.8.144.6 |
There is a very tiny water feature outside the Chase Bank Building on the corner at the corner of Woodward and Congress. Blink and you will miss it. edit: oh yeah, and the GM Fountain at Comerica Park. (Message edited by DetroitSTAR on June 30, 2006) | ||
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj Post Number: 85 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 63.171.81.130 |
The world's tallest indoor water fountain in trappers alley is my favorite. | ||
Mind_field Member Username: Mind_field Post Number: 594 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.38.24.65 |
^That's not in the former Trapper's Alley, it is in the International Center, next block to the west. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6089 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22 |
I noticed that they were testing the Hart Plaza fountain...the down firing jets were working, then later the upper misters...and the bottom was flowing. I haven't seen it this active in years. My favorite was the old Kennedy Square fountain...location of my 1973 Parks 'n' Rec Model Sailboat Regatta victory. Current favorite is the one in Campius Martius, when it is zoning-out the office workers during their lunchtime. That's a fountain properly doing its job. | ||
Wazootyman Member Username: Wazootyman Post Number: 78 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 68.75.220.9 |
Every time I'm in Campus Martius I think how nice it would be to relax by the fountain during my lunch if I worked downtown. Instead I spend my lunches in a hot car facing awful traffic on Ann Arbor Rd. to get to some lousy drive-through lunch. Whoever thought locating companies deep within winding business park roads was a good idea should be shot. They didn't even install sidewalks, so the dozen or so people I see walking daily at lunch have to do so on the road as cars shoot by at 40. Back on topic, I really like the Grand Circus Park fountains. | ||
Motorcitymayor2026 Member Username: Motorcitymayor2026 Post Number: 956 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 24.247.31.15 |
The Edison fountain in GCP is great, when it is properly working... I love seeing the jet of water come up through the trees in GCP while sitting in the left field upper deck at Comerica Park...its quite a site | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 1810 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 71.144.94.40 |
It's a cryin' shame, Wazooty... I think the Harmonie Park water feature is really cool, and I like the sense of enclosure in that park. | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1211 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 136.1.1.101 |
On rare occasions the Noguchi fountain in Hart Plaza runs in full-donut mode... here it is a few years ago:  | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2370 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.90.142 |
I've mentioned this before.... I think that the neglected Beaux Arts style Merrill Fountain in Palmer Park should be moved back downtown (originally it was in Campus Martius). I think it would make a nice centerpiece to Capitol Park. | ||
Eastsidedog Member Username: Eastsidedog Post Number: 597 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 12.47.224.8 |
Although not downtown, I think the Scott Fountain on Belle Isle blows them all away. But I do like the Noguchi and Campus Martius Fountains as well (as modern fountains they are really in a different class altogether with water being the focal point and not the fountain itself). | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2371 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.90.142 |
The Dodge (Noguchi) Fountain has never worked correctly, ever since a bucket mistakenly got left into the plumbing system (or is that an urban legend?). | ||
Rbdetsport Member Username: Rbdetsport Post Number: 129 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 68.61.11.146 |
The Dodge Fountain was working during the fireworks. Or at least before they started. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1272 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.41.8.162 |
The Merrill Fountain in front of the Detroit Opera House.   DPC/LOC The latter photo is from a Detroit Bicentennial event in 1901. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2374 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.72.34 |
Thanks Hornwrecker!! Now wouldn't that look cool in the middle of Capitol Park!! In reference to the Dodge fountain.... there is a huge difference between "working" and "working as it was designed to work". | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6092 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22 |
I've seen one fellow working on the Dodge Fountain a few times this year...along with another few guys deep cleaning the drains between the fountain and the main stage. I haven't seen this fountain working fully in twenty years...but I may be wrong. There might be a story here for the Metro Times... | ||
Gumby Member Username: Gumby Post Number: 1305 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.60.143.186 |
I really like the fountain at the GM plaza by the river. It is more of an interactive fountain than the others. On a hot summer day you can see the kids running in and out of itsjets. It really reminds me of the fountain in Grant Park in Chicago (no not the one from married with children). | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 11 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 66.184.3.44 |
How bout the fountain inside the Anna Whitcomb Conservatory on Belle Isle?.... | ||
Hagglerock Member Username: Hagglerock Post Number: 259 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 12.214.243.66 |
This guys seems to love the Grand Circus west fountain.   | ||
Gumby Member Username: Gumby Post Number: 1307 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.60.143.186 |
well I guess that one is more interactive than I thought. lol. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2379 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.72.34 |
Gumby... the one from Married With Children would be the Buckingham Fountain. | ||
Gumby Member Username: Gumby Post Number: 1308 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.60.143.186 |
Cool did not know the name of that fountain. I will look foa pic of the one I was talking about. It had images projected on a wall of water. | ||
Gumby Member Username: Gumby Post Number: 1309 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.60.143.186 |
The one I am talking about is Crown Fountin in Millenium Park THe first image on this site... http://www.kristinsweetland.co m/chicago.htm | ||
Dillpicklesoup Member Username: Dillpicklesoup Post Number: 98 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 64.7.188.164 |
I like the bear fountain at the zoo- no doubt, kwamee will soon be auctioning these works of art off to the highest bidder- | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 119 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 12.45.2.184 |
My favorite is the CM fountain, but outside of Downtown and it's the Scott on Belle Isle.313 | ||
Gumby Member Username: Gumby Post Number: 1316 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.60.143.186 |
The Scott fountain is truly a thing of beauty 313. |
