Re: Packard Plant: Aerial Photos - Dec 2011

Posted by Mahoning63 On 2011/12/12 16:42:45

When was the Edsel Ford Freeway built? I ask because it seems that time was against the old EGB plant. Had Packard stayed rather than moved to Conner and had they survived the Fifties, would they have been forced out soon after anyway?

It's incredible what happened to our cities. In the first half of the 20th Century they grew with careful planning and thought and were a model of good design and efficiency. Then in the last half of the century all those carefully laid plans got thrown in the dumpster. City planners and architects were replaced with highway engineers and suburban developers and we undid or walked away from everything we long labored to create.