Detroit Packard Plant

With rumor of demolition making the news, I thought I'd get there. Quite a few people mulling around.

So much history being destroyed in Detroit. Great you are able to capture whats left.

Chet wrote in post #14136701
So much history being destroyed in Detroit. Great you are able to capture whats left.

What he says.

Nice images.

Chet wrote in post #14136701
So much history being destroyed in Detroit. Great you are able to capture whats left.

I would've surely been disappointed if I didn't make it back. It's quite an adventure.

You don't live there any longer? I guess the exodus was pretty big.

A very good friend of mine grew up in Detroit (he's 60). He was saying 15 years ago how it had utterly decayed.

Chet wrote in post #14136734
You don't live there any longer? I guess the exodus was pretty big.

I live close; maybe 20 miles north. It's just rare that I have time and can get anyone interested in going all at the same time.

Great shots. They tell a very sad tale of the decline in the midwest. I will say this though, you are a braver man than me Samuel. I was not even game to get out of the car in Detroit!!

L.J.G. wrote in post #14136759
Great shots. They tell a very sad tale of the decline in the midwest. I will say this though, you are a braver man than me Samuel. I was not even game to get out of the car in Detroit!!

When we first got there, we started on the north side of Grand Blvd and met a couple in their 70s scrapping some small tanks. They gave us some tips on cool spots to stop. There are quite a few people around lately from what I've seen and hear. It's almost like a tourist stop now. As we where leaving, there was an older little Chinese couple snapping some shots from inside their car.

I lived in Detroit in the 70's. My family still visits often and we get Buddy's pizza every time we are in town. It's still a great city.

I like living here, granted I'm living in suburbs. I know Detroit ranks high on the economical disaster scale, but money still flows and there is plenty to do. It's just a drag there are so many disenfranchised lower class folk in the city. I can't imagine what it would be like to make a life starting in some of the broken down areas.

I haven't made it back out there since the news. I have to make it out there soon. You captured it great.

silversldr wrote in post #14140793
I haven't made it back out there since the news. I have to make it out there soon. You captured it great.

Send me a PM if you think about going and want company. I might go back again.

Thanks for all the compliments; I forgot to be courteous in my previous replies.