  Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5775 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12 |
Here is today's P.D.J. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 4841 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.174.229 |
Higland Park's " WEED AND SEED" community. For 20 years those folks brought in the WEED and forget about the SEED!! | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 8719 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 70.54.69.58 |
Ex-Cell-O Is now defunct if I remember correctly. They went under around 2000-2001. | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 607 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 70.227.219.108 |
Is that the Budco building? I knew it sold....perhaps to Helm? | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2860 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.211.213 |
Yes, that was Excello, aka Ex-Cell-O, but I don't think they went under, probably bought out. Helm has been there since the mid-nineties following a brief period of vacancy. FYI, Excello, made a fortune from origami. Remember those fold-out top milk cartons [Prue-Pak] that you drank your grade school and juice from? That was Excello and their name could be found under the 'eaves' of those house shaped cartons. They made a fortune making and licensing the machinery that produced those cartons around the world. See: http://www.planetark.org/carto ns/carthist.html The were machine makers for manufacturers largely in the automotive industry. Irish, Budco is located at Davison and Oakland and was built around 2000. The Excello plant is a half mile west at Manchester and Hamilton. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5776 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12 |
As Lowell said, the Budco buildin is new and gleaming white, right on the Davison Serivce Drive. | ||
Sknutson Member Username: Sknutson Post Number: 671 Registered: 03-2004 Posted From: 67.114.23.202 |
I'm afraid that sign conjures up images of empty lots full of weeds and which have gone to seed. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4270 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 71.193.193.49 |
Other Highland Park Monuments for AIW to report on are the Sanders Confectionery, Holley Carbarateur, Manchester Yards of the DSR, and remnants of the Oakman Street Car Line. Highland Park had huge industry which included World Headquarters for Ford and Chrysler. The Davison Ditch Expressway (America's First)of 1942 was built to ease the traffic congestion around HP. It had dandy bus pullouts and steps down to them. HP is probably one the most intact ruins in Detroit Metro area. Ofcourse, the population has dropped, the civic buildings are abandoned, and the streetscapes look like something of a 19th century mining ghost town. jjaba, Westsider. |
