Lets See Your Abandoned and Dilapidated Buildings / Ruins

Another take of the dump truck seen on Wikipedia

SkedAddled wrote in post #19024926
I've posted of it before. I'd imagine Dane has a lot more than I.

But since you asked, lemme see what I've got...

Thanks for the additional images.
Are there by chance any old cars still trapped inside any of these buildings, at least when you shot them?

Ballen Photo wrote in post #19024943
Are there by chance any old cars still trapped inside any of these buildings, at least when you shot them?

There may have been during my visits in 2009, and I may have seen one or two,
but they were so completely stripped and vandalized as to be unreconizable.

There was a gutted RV motorhome I may be able to find...

This shows a rather accurate representation of the overall site when I visited

Fun times, actually, and very calm.
Nobody to bother or challenge us.

Craig,
Thanks for posting. When I read the words "Packard" and "Detroit" I wondered something and Wikipedia confirmed what I thought:

dangermoney wrote in post #19025024
Craig,
Thanks for posting. When I read the words "Packard" and "Detroit" I wondered something and Wikipedia confirmed what I thought:

And Studebaker lent a hand in making the Wright Cyclone engines that powered among other things, the B17 Bombers.
http://www.aviation-history.com/engines/cy​clone1820.htm

lucky7 wrote in post #19025078

It would be interesting to know the story behind how the truck got into that position! Has it been like that for many years? Did the original owner try driving it out of the building, got hung up and walked away from it like it sits now????

Woman driver ??

Kids pushed it out the window. Refer to the first photo in this thread - the aftermath. https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=19024939

lucky7 wrote in post #19025175
Kids pushed it out the window. Refer to the first photo in this thread - the aftermath. https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=19024939

What floor were you on to find this??

The 3rd or 4th, lol. I wish I was there to see [hear] it! They did the same thing to a VW beetle in a different building on site. It was like a playground back then.

I only was in the Packard factory one time. A quick visit too; I came across a late-model Dodge minivan inside which had been completely stripped. Chop-shop operation; the van was hardly recognizeable. Not sure if there were any lookouts around, I decided I didn't need to be there to find out! Now we see where the recommendations to not go alone come from!

I came back a year later and was driving around, unsure where I wanted to leave my car. I'd seen a couple other cars parked just west of the overhead bridge on W. Grand Blvd. (by what used to be a grocery store), so I headed there so I could park by them. But just as I got there, I saw two guys breaking into them by smashing out the side windows. Not a good day to be at the Packard factory!

This was all a decade ago, so I can't comment on how it is today. I know the overhead bridge is gone.... Hopefully the city has turned the corner and is on the upswing. There is a lot of interesting architecture remaining there and its sad to see it crumble.

I forgot about the chop-shop! I have been to the Packard plant too many times to count, although it's been a long time now. We used to park on the south end of the building where there were a couple of businesses in operation.

Detroit is interesting. All the young hipsters that have moved there in recent years are under the illusion that the city has been brought back from the dead, lol. There's been a lot of 'funny-money' spent on all of these major cities since the 'great recession,' but it won't last forever - it can't. The downtown area looks like it's all brand new, although most of it is owned by one or two people. You drive a few minutes east or west and Detroit is still Detroit. I have a friend that drives all over the city taking pictures/mapping the city streets for a website. He could certainly elaborate more, but he won't get out of his car to take pictures. I'm finding more and more that the people that have been there for a long time aren't buying the 'revival' narrative.