Interesting read....
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Jeff
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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.... BP
We've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge. 
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Yep, such a shame all hopes of survival were dashed when it burned to the ground:
and here:
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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.Comment
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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.Comment
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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
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The 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.Comment
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2012 thread.Skip LackieComment
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According RQ, 1932-only in Detroit: https://forum.studebakerdriversclub....kne-productionOriginally posted by paul shuffleburg View Post
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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.
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