Open sided red brick sheds and brick storefronts on Russell Street, and the market Presumed Innocent used in 1989.
What Eastern Market looks like
Five brick sheds run down the market's six blocks, open sided under high pitched roofs with a pedimented arch at each street end. backs onto a warehouse painted with a horned cartoon animal over the words Eastern Farmers Market. Inside the sheds, steel trusses climb to a row of clerestory windows. Stalls line the concrete floor end to end.
Along Russell Street, brick storefronts stand two and three storeys with striped awnings over the windows. 's shop has its name built into the brick gable above the door. A few doors down, sets picnic tables on the sidewalk next to a storefront painted for an Ethiopian restaurant.
On Saturdays, vendors set up under the open sides selling flowers, produce and meat to crowds working down the aisles. Sunflowers and boxed vegetables crowd the tables closest to the street. On a weekday the same sheds stand empty, the roofline visible the length of the building.
runs along the market's south side, past trucks pulled up against the sheds' open sides. marks the north end, past the market's own office. The , a paved trail below street level, runs along the market's eastern edge.
Shot in Eastern Market
Presumed Innocent filmed exterior scenes at Eastern Market in 1989, one of several Detroit locations the production used that August. Whip It later used a building on Russell Street as the exterior of a character's apartment complex.
Presumed Innocent, 1990
Presumed Innocent shot exterior scenes at Eastern Market in 1989, one of the Detroit locations the production used that August. Sources name the market itself rather than a specific shed or block.
Fulton Market occupies the same kind of worker scale food district as Eastern Market's surrounding blocks, its brick warehouses and loading docks mostly built between the 1900s and 1920s. Fulton Market's buildings run taller in places and carry newer glass additions, so keep frames low and tight on the original brick to hold the period. Try searching brick food district now.
Findlay Market in Cincinnati, Ohio
Findlay Market's brick market house and surrounding storefront blocks make up the same kind of food district, its own murals now covering nearby walls too. Findlay's market house is a single building rather than a run of sheds, so a wide shot needs more of the surrounding street to suggest a district. Try searching brick market house district now.
Northern Quarter in Manchester, England
The Northern Quarter's Victorian warehouses and heavy mural coverage give it a similar worked over industrial surface, useful for a European set dressed with new signage. Manchester's narrower streets and darker brick mean tighter frames read better than a wide market aisle shot. Try searching Victorian warehouses and murals now.
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