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Cli55er bought some of the doors but don't know if he also bought paneling. He is the only forum member who posted photos of what he purchased that I can remember right off but am sure there were others who bought. As I recall the stuff did sell out but don't remember how long it took. There was also a fund raising project with the wood floor being cut into small squares and sold as mementos.
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Howard (HH56), your memory works great. He bought -> doors and -> trim.
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If I remember correctly, the paneling in the executive offices was walnut. I think it was sold off in the '90's...I think the showroom stairs went then, also. PB
I remember Kanter selling pieces of factory floor in the '80's, but that was from the Ohio factory.
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Those posts were made several years before I became a member here and I don't recall ever seeing them. In fact, I own the domain name authenticpackard.com (and .net, .org and .us) but have never put a site there. I didn't know it had such a history!
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The floor sample I have was sold much later than the 80s. It is actual E. Grand Avenue factory flooring. As I recall the small samples were sold as part of the Packard Proving Grounds foundation fund raising when one of the first restoration projects was just starting. Someone else might know if any of the flooring blocks still exist or anyone interested might find out if the blocks or any current project is in the works by contacting Bruce Blevins.
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The creosote-covered wood bricks indeed covered parts of the East Grand Blvd. factory floor. These pieces were not cut into samples– at least not the one pictured here or the ones I saw. I once owned several boxes of these wood bricks when Packard Properties (the company that once owned the plant) allowed me to have them back in the early 1970s. Once upon a time there was a flooring system of creosote-covered wood bricks. These were used as a floor covering that muted noise, cushioned machinery and provided a softer surface (than poured reinforced concrete) for workers. This durable system was in many Detroit factories– including Packard Motor Car Company. I brought many of these blocks back to Southern California and donated them to the Earle C. Anthony region of the Packard Club in the early 1970s. We cleaned the blocks, added large PAC medallions on them and gave them away as awards. One went to Dutch Darrin. I took a photo of Dutch holding it. I still have a few remaining in my collection along with other factory items I saved long ago...
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Regarding references to wood in the Packard Motorcar factory administrative and executive offices, there was also wood there that was cut from the floors and other areas not in the factory work areas, but the administrative offices that faced East Grand Boulevard.
For some time, pieces of this wood were mounted with Packard (and other) pistons, engraved and given away as awards at Packard Proving Grounds events. You are looking at the top of the engraved piston here with the assembly mounted via the connection rod onto the wood. Everything here is vintage original! Here is one of those awards that was given to me and remains in my collection to this day...   By the way... the statement on the underside of this wood strip is mistaken where it states that Packards were built at East Grand Blvd. through 1956. Packard production at this location actually ceased in late 1954 and moved to Conner Avenue in Detroit. So 1955 and 1956 Packards were actually built at what was then called The New Packard Plant on Conner Avenue just south of East Warren Avenue in Detroit. Unlike East Grand Boulevard, the Conner Avenue Packard Plant sadly was completely demolished by the end of the 1950s. The adjacent property at Warren and Conner avenues was turned into a small shopping mall anchored by a nice Crowley's Department Store. It was originally called the Warren-Conner Shopping Center. While that mall still exists today, the nicer buildings are gone and it has been reduced to a strip mall. East Grand Boulevard– contrary to what today's "histories" will tell you– continued doing business as multiple small companies moved into parts of the plant. Some of these companies (such as Essex Wire Corporation) were the very same vendors that PMCC once used. The company that owned all of this huge East Grand operation was known as "Packard Properties, Incorporated." I knew this company and had an ID badge that allowed me to enter the plant. Most of the so-called histories of both East Grand Blvd. and Conner Avenue Packard plants posted in newspapers, magazines and online today are filled with errors, suppositions and just plain wild stories that are untrue.
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