Re: Conner ave plant
Posted by RogerDetroit On 2017/3/16 10:42:02
Hello Mr. PB.
Your first photo shows a 4-story building, yet everyone talks about the 1-story building at Conner. This same photo is listed on this site under Packard Photo Archive > Packard Plant Exterior as photo #83. When I saw it there I assumed (incorrectly) that is must have been the main Briggs plant on Mack Avenue and I sent a PM to BigKev to "correct" the mis-labeling.
However, I noticed on the far right side a multi-story building with very distinctive (light-colored) brickwork on the upper stories. That definitively identifies it as the Michigan Bell Telephone Building at the SE corner of Conner and E. Warren Road. So that is the face of the Conner Plant.
Attached is a photo from today at the same spot. Where once stood a manufacturing plant is now a Wendy's.
BTW, that Ma Bell building was reduced in height to only 1-story, so it does not appear in today's photo.
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Your first photo shows a 4-story building, yet everyone talks about the 1-story building at Conner. This same photo is listed on this site under Packard Photo Archive > Packard Plant Exterior as photo #83. When I saw it there I assumed (incorrectly) that is must have been the main Briggs plant on Mack Avenue and I sent a PM to BigKev to "correct" the mis-labeling.
However, I noticed on the far right side a multi-story building with very distinctive (light-colored) brickwork on the upper stories. That definitively identifies it as the Michigan Bell Telephone Building at the SE corner of Conner and E. Warren Road. So that is the face of the Conner Plant.
Attached is a photo from today at the same spot. Where once stood a manufacturing plant is now a Wendy's.
BTW, that Ma Bell building was reduced in height to only 1-story, so it does not appear in today's photo.
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