This Abandoned Jewelry Store in Detroit Is Pretty Wild!

WARNING: Under no circumstances should you enter this property. By doing so you risk bodily harm and/or prosecution for trespassing on private property.

This jewelry store originally opened in 1927, nearly 100 years ago...

Now, Max's sits; abandoned, trashed, and left crumbling.

See Inside Nearly 100 Year Old Abandoned Jewelry Store in Detroit, Michigan

Two brothers from Poland, the Rosenbaums, originally opened the jewelry store in the '20s at 5553 Chene Street near East Palmer Street in Detroit. This endeavor proved fruitful for them because they were able to open another location in 1940.

Unfortunately, business started to decline in the 1960s and the jewelry store inevitably closed in 1974.

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Some time after the closure, but not for very long, a furniture store named Apollo Furniture in its stead. After the closure of Apollo Furniture and up until 2012, this building sat abandoned. That was until an arsonist set it ablaze in 2012.

You can see all the charring on the exposed beams and walls.

The former jewelry store, in all its charming glory can be seen in the TikTok below. The color pictures really give it a second life.

I learned that this building has seen its 15-minutes of fame outside of TikTok.

Abandoned Detroit Building Featured in a Movie

According to the Detroit Free Press, Max's was "labeled as a movie theater to fit with the theme of one of the five Transformers films that were shot around Detroit from 2007 to 2017."

Not only that, but the spirit of Max's Jewelry Store lives on... According to DBusiness, Max's granddaughter, Ellen Hertz, runs her owns her own jewelry, gifts, and chocolates shop in Minneapolis. And wouldn't you know it... it's called, Max's.