  Doughboy Member Username: Doughboy Post Number: 1 Registered: 11-2006 |
I am looking for information regarding the status of the historic Packard Plant on East Grand Blvd. Specifically Building #10. Is it still there? Which one is it? | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 4263 Registered: 10-2003 |
https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/76017/76130.html or https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/76017/75169.html or The Hall of Fame Thread https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/6790/78791.html?11554003 50 Welcome to the forum. Start with these threads, lots of discussions regarding the plant. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 729 Registered: 12-2005 |
Doughboy--bldg. 10 was/is the first Albert Kahn "modern" (circa 1910) steel/concrete factory bldg. It is still there, although it has been added to/swallowed up by later additions. The Packard plant grew in fits from 1903 when the first factory was built there, until 1937 (or thereabouts) when the last major expansion was built. Like Jams says, read all of the threads above, you'll be busy for a while. | ||
Chucktown_motown Member Username: Chucktown_motown Post Number: 15 Registered: 09-2006 |
Watch your step 'round there though. It's old and pepople use ols ass shit for thangs...It's wasy to get to though...peep it out | ||
Tkshreve Member Username: Tkshreve Post Number: 41 Registered: 07-2006 |
Too bad we can't add to some of those threads. I used to play paintball there as a kid. They would take you all over the plant and basically let you run around freely with a paintgun between floors. A lot of 5-story high bridges connect the multiple buildings. A lot of broken glass and rusty nails also. | ||
Fortress_warren Member Username: Fortress_warren Post Number: 258 Registered: 10-2006 |
In 1961, or thereabouts, I went to the GEM store that was in the Packard Plant. First time I ever saw Silicon rubber, it was blister packed, had a wad of silicon rubber on the cardboard to let you feel what it was like. That was a unique gob in 1961. 25 years later, I'm working with a guy that was with Aerojet in the 50's and 60's. He told me they embedded heating wires in silicon rubber. The turbine pumps that pushed the liquid oxygen into the rocket engines would fail, they fixed it by heating the bearings in the pump with electrical heaters. In silicon rubber. | ||
Fortress_warren Member Username: Fortress_warren Post Number: 259 Registered: 10-2006 |
In 1961, or thereabouts, I went to the GEM store that was in the Packard Plant. First time I ever saw Silicone rubber, it was blister packed, had a wad of silicone rubber on the cardboard to let you feel what it was like. That was a unique gob in 1961. 25 years later, I'm working with a guy that was with Aerojet in the 50's and 60's. He told me they embedded heating wires in silicone rubber. The turbine pumps that pushed the liquid oxygen into the rocket engines would fail, they fixed it by heating the bearings in the pump with electrical heaters. In silicone rubber. |
