Thanks for a great article and wonderful pictures. I am a true aviation geek and loved it. My boss and I had a trip to DTW last week and by total coincidence, we were among the last United Airlines passengers to fly out of the Smith Terminal Tue night.
As I was walking across the tarmac to our CRJ back to IAD, I recall thinking that we were among the last people to walk that path. Nice to be a footnote to aviation history.
I enjoyed your work on this and we actually talked about it and showed pics of the old terminal when we were back in the office on Wed. Jeff's not an av-guy but he liked the historical aspects of our flight home.
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