Packard Factory

[StudeMichael]

What will become of it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNZPOP5WENc&feature=related

[Chris_Dresbach]

Such a shame that the Packard plant got that run down. That's another place I wish I could have seen back in its day. Aside from the broken glass, graffiti, trash, rust, and general falling apart, it's actually a neat looking building as far as the brick work. I've never actually been there though.

[avantilover]

I believe it will all be demolished one day, even if someone wished to restore the site it would cost too much, perhaps be turned into a business park like the old Studebaker factory.

[DEEPNHOCK]

It's a much bigger shame that Detroit is that run down.....

Such a shame that the Packard plant got that run down.
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[JRoberts]

It's a much bigger shame that Detroit is that run down.....

Amen!

I understand what the narrator was saying about there being some kind of strange attraction that buildings like that have. Despite their broken down looks, abandonment, starkness and even danger there is a sort of beauty to them. The video is very well done. Thanks for posting this.

[Bob Andrews]

It's a much bigger shame that Detroit is that run down.....

Amen Jeff.

http://forgottendetroit.com/

Particularly haunting to me is the story of St. Cyril's.

[wot]

I worked in the old Packard plant in the late 1960's, and was there in the '67 riots. Different parts of the plant were leased out to various companies. We designed and built custom machinery. The plant still had all kinds of old Packard stuff everywhere. We found engineering drawings, advertising brochures, all kinds of trash everywhere. All got thrown away in our space, but there were parts of the plant empty that still had Packard things. There is a big fight going on right now over ownership, and whether to finally tear the place down, and who pays.

[SN-60]

It's difficult to comprehend that some of the finest cars ever built came out of these buildings........what a mess!!!

[jnormanh]

It's difficult to comprehend that some of the finest cars ever built came out of these buildings........what a mess!!!

A mess now, but look at the beauty of those buildings, still standing after 50 years of use and 50 years of abandonment. They were the best engineered and built money could buy. The people who worked there built cars equivalent to the best in the world.



During WWII, they showed Rolls how to build a better quality Merlin.



After WWII they sort of lost their way with the unloved *bathtub* styling and built down to a price instead of up to a standard. As so often happens, the bean-counters ruined yet another grand company.




RIP, Packard.

[SN-60]

To: jnormanh,--------I always disliked auto 'junkyards' that stacked their cars........I always seemed to need something off the very bottom or off the very top car!!!

[rockinhawk]

To: jnormanh,--------I always disliked auto 'junkyards' that stacked their cars........I always seemed to need something off the very bottom or off the very top car!!!

I once took a door off a 62 Lark that was in the middle!