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Owen_Dyneto wrote:
Leeedy, I was fortunate at the Detroit PAC National to be on the tour bus of Detroit with you as our tour guide. You certainly did an EXCELLENT job of painting for us what life and times were like in those areas in your younger years. Hope you don't object to the photograph.
Owen... thanks for the very kind words. I can tell you that the whole tour was put together at the very last minute and everything I said came directly out of my memories of Detroit. We were originally supposed to have a different destination and guide. But both of those were cancelled at the very last minute... like that very morning! So when Roger asked me, of course, I was happy to volunteer my services.
I picked all of the places we visited, including downtown Detroit, Cobo Hall, Belle Isle and the Packard Plant. It was my hope to actually follow the route I wrote about in the special Packard Plant issue of The Packard Cormorant magazine a few years ago. So it was very gratifying to see the positive response from those on the buses.
Our first stop at Scott Fountain on Belle Isle should be one that every Packard fan ought to make at least once in their life. If you look at many of the old factory shots of Packards taken outdoors, there were photographed right here or in close proximity to this spot. Turning one direction is the skyline of the Motor City... and the other is the beautiful fountain.
In the old days, this beautiful marble fountain flowed and put an incredible mist and soothing energy in the air. At night it had special lighting that made the waters appear to magically change colors. These are the kinds of things that people today would never know unless someone told them. You could look at the dry marble structure today all day and never know what a magical place it once was.
Again, thank you for the kind words.
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