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Patrick
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Posted on Monday, May 07, 2007 - 10:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If you take a look at many vintage automobile ads you will find that they utilized many great places for backgrounds. I have seen so many ads with Indian Village and Boston-Edison as well as various street scenes. Here are a few auto ads.


1960 Cadillac in front of the Moorings

1927 Cadillac in front of the William Fisher mansion

William Fisher (Palmer Woods)

William Fisher (Palmer Woods)

GM Building

Scott Fountain

DIA

Caddy in front of Meadowbrook Hall of all places.

Lincoln on Washington Boulevard???

Packard Proving Ground

Lincoln in Detroit neighborhood?

Palmer Woods
Lincoln in Palmer Woods…I think it is the home Charles Crane built for the famous theater owner (name??)

Cadillac Fleetwood with Detroit skyline

Harley Earl and Larry P. at unknown location
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56packman
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 7:56 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Why stop there? keep 'em coming!
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Nativegirl
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 9:41 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Patrick, those pics are beautiful. The Wm. Fisher mansion, was that the one that burned in 1994 or was this the mansion that was donated to the Archdiocese of Detroit?
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Patrick
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 10:01 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It was the one that burned in 94. Damn shame actually....we had so many threads about it and now I have a picture of it lol.
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56packman
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:12 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here's a Packard (about 1908) in front of the Detroit Boat Club on Belle Isle


Pac-BC


Here's a 1929 Model entering Ferndale on Woodward


Packard-non fashonable Ferndale


these are from MSU's "Making of modern Michigan" website, photos are part of the DPL-NAHC. These photos were saved from the powerhouse furnace at Packard by my late friend Dick Teague (last director of styling at Packard)
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Ray1936
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:27 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oh, boy...I think this is going to be a great thread....... :-)
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Quinn
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Where's the "Moorings" mansion? LOVE IT!!!!

I want to sit in that car with a big 'ole blue wig and scarf.
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Kathleen
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The Moorings is better known as The War Memorial in Grosse Pointe. It was the home of Russell Alger.

Here's a link to the Michigan Historic Marker page for this site: http://www.michmarkers.com/Pag es/S0548.htm
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Kathleen
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:46 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

P.S....Patrick: Nice thread!!!!
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56packman
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 12:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Jeff ave Packard

a professional packard ca. 1925, taken at 545 E.Jefferson, looking east, I think

Ohh--Biff and Scotter are here!

1929 Packard phaeton in front of the Grosse Pointe Yacht club

your great-grandkids will come to a rave here on day

1931 sedan, taking delivery in front of the East Grand Boulevard plant

sedan at newberry's crib

1932 sedan, in front of Truman Newberry's home in GP
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Jerome81
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Why don't we build homes, offices, buildings like that?

The GM building was and is a classic. As was the old Packard plant. They just seemed like places where work was done, but they were at the same time beautiful environments. Today, seems so many companies are located in cheap building, industrual parks. You don't see the ivy covered door or the buildings up against the streets.

Anyway, this thread is going to be awesome!
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Jimg
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 7:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


car ad
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Ookpik
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 7:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)





Soldier with 1941 Cadillac by the Book Tower.

Ookpik
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Ray1936
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 7:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"You don't see the ivy covered door or the buildings up against the streets."

Well, in fairness, ivy can raise hell with masonry work; even worse on wood. Try scraping that stuff off to paint!
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Patrick
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 7:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Was that side of the Truman Newberry home facing the lake?
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56packman
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Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Jerome81--we don't build much of anything that well anymore. Churches went from being stone edifices conveying the permanence of faith in the world to being glorified pole barns in the country--i.e. North Ridge off of M-14. Everyone's expectations of a building have been gradually lowered to the point where a finished ceiling is a luxury, we are expected to look at trusses and corrugated roofing hvlp painted white and like it. Homes that used to be covered in brick are now covered with vinyl siding.
The one exception to this I am aware of is in premium housing being constructed for the chronically over-compensated suits running (ruining?) our corporate world or practicing tort law and advertising on TV. Some of them have built homes with quality materials and features common in the teens and twenties but rare today.

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