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Packard Plant photos from The Detroit News.

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Received this link by email, interesting to click through.

Posted on: 2016/12/11 18:00

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Re: Packard Plant photos from The Detroit News.

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It is interesting yet brutally frustrating to see photos of the plant-including original ones-with absurd descriptions attached to them. While there are many nice photos here, things are said here that are either totally wrong, contradictory or just plain senseless.

Years are off for the cars. Some descriptions imply things that were not happening. One "warehouse near the Packard plant" in fact IS part of the plant. Don't they know that the plant was MUCH bigger than people left in Detroit seem to imagine today?

And if the line on East Grand Blvd. was torn up in 1954, why do these write-ups continue to make it appear that cars were still being built here years later (they were not)? Never a mention of the Connor Avenue Plant.

Poured reinforced concrete hanging on rebar is described as "plaster"... c'monnnnn! Really?? PLASTER??????? A "roof" didn't merely collapse... a poured reinforced concrete FLOOR collapsed after it was so vandalized. THAT is what is being shown in the photo. A collapsed floor, probably broken up for the scrap value of the steel inside it.

Makes an old Detroiter who knew both the plant and the cars even sadder.

Posted on: 2016/12/12 1:06

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Re: Packard Plant photos from The Detroit News.

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yeah i just look at the pictures and take the captions with a grain of salt.

thanks for posting the link!

Posted on: 2016/12/12 10:02

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