By 10 a.m. on Tuesday, there was only one chair left in Cobo Joe’s.
The walls of the famous sports bar had been stripped of the posters and autographed photos that once covered them from floor to ceiling. The tables were being dragged out and loaded one by one into the U-Haul truck parked outside. The bar counter was bare but for a half-dozen, half-empty bottles of spirits.
Richard Cadreau, owner of the bar since December 2004, perched himself on a couple of beer crates and clasped his hands together, then began to recount what brought this Detroit icon to its knees.