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Guscha wrote:
Bird's-eye view of Packard automobile factory with cars parked around sides of building.
Date: unknown
Format: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission. Click to enlarge!
The date of this photo certainly
is known. I have the original in my collection but it was actually much larger. It was taken in 1946, but the photo version shown here has been severely cropped off both at the top and at the bottom.
What you are seeing here is Looking generally south. The street in the lower portion of the photo was Harper Avenue... before they eliminated most of it here to make way for the Edsel Ford Expressway. Now known as the Edsel Ford Freeway, it whacked off the parking lot to the lower left of the plant and almost all of the street you see here and about a quarter of the plant building to the right of the railroad tracks.
In the original photo that was not cropped, the lot in the upper right-hand corner with all of the cars was the Nu-Car Driveaway lot-where new Packards were stored and shipped out-mostly by truck rather than individually driven as many today have presumed. It has been cut out of this view. But it is obviously the same photo with cars in the same position on Concord Avenue and Harper Avenue.
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