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Everitt-Metzger-Flanders/Studebaker Auto Plant - Detroit
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Jeff
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
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Indeed, Jeff; thanks.
I wonder how many other people read that, consider the entrepreneurial environment of the day, and feel they were born 50-75 years too late?
'Brings tears to my eyes, seeing wonderful, once-productive facilities (and the surrounding city) in such a derelict state, knowing what it foretells.
Sigh.... BPWe've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge.
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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Yep, such a shame all hopes of survival were dashed when it burned to the ground:
and here:
Tour Detroit Michigan and Windsor Ontario home of Chevrolet, Cadillac, Ford, Dodge, Chrylser, Pontiac, GMC, Greektown Casino, Motorcity Casino and Detroit MGM Casino and the fabulous ruins of Detroit.
CraigLast edited by 8E45E; 01-07-2012, 06:32 PM.
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There was another large Studebaker building in Detroit, near Franklin and Orleans at the riverfront. I used to go to that neighborhood every once in a while, from the late 70's through the early 90's. It may have been a warehouse, but it covered a whole block and its Studebaker signage was still clearly readable then. Almost everything in that area has now been demolished. I have often wondered what it was.
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Studebaker's Detroit/Piquette Plant before/after fireQuick two-minute videos each.
Before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-N6...eature=related
During/After: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4sJo...endscreen&NR=1
We've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge.
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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I believe that the Studebaker plant on Piquette Ave was originally a Ford plant where the original Model T Fords and earlier Fords were built. Ford sold that plant when it opened their Highland Park Plant, which was much larger. It was such a tragedy when that building burnt down.
Rog'59 Lark VI Regal Hardtop
Smithtown,NY
Recording Secretary, Long Island Studebaker Club
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Originally posted by raprice View PostI believe that the Studebaker plant on Piquette Ave was originally a Ford plant where the original Model T Fords and earlier Fords were built.
CraigLast edited by 8E45E; 12-13-2012, 03:34 PM.
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Originally posted by paul shuffleburg View PostThe article states that Rocknes were built at the Piquette plant in 32 & 33. I thought that the 33
Studebaker Rockne was built in South Bend.
Craig
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Correcting the article. Studebaker-GARFORD was the name of this automobile plant, and their vehicles brand name from 1904 -1911.
Found no record of any automobile manufacturer bearing the name ‘Garland’.
eta. There was a Harry G. Garland that was employed by Studebaker 1921-1923 but he moved on to employment by Chrysler Corporation where he was employed as a head mechanic at the Maxwell automobile plant. In 1935 started his own automobile PARTS business, Garland Manufacturing Company located at 10533 Gratiot Ave. Harry Garland went on to become a extremely successful Detroit businessman with many amazing skills and accomplishments.
But all of this occurred too late for Harry Garland to have had any connection to the Studebaker-Garford automobile’s of 1904-1911 period.
Last edited by Jessie J.; 11-19-2020, 06:43 PM.
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