  Little_buddy Member Username: Little_buddy Post Number: 29 Registered: 03-2006 |
I worked there from 74-78, anyone else work there? | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10571 Registered: 12-2003 |
A friendly fellow named Jack used to deliver the paychecks, do you remember him? | ||
1st_sgt Member Username: 1st_sgt Post Number: 111 Registered: 11-2006 |
Do you mean the old Ternstedt plant? My Mom worked there 25 years. Joanne. Dash boards and door trim. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10588 Registered: 12-2003 |
No, Fleetwood was at Springwells/West End and Fort Street for years and years until a pile of shipping containers fell on it. There was another on Fort Street down at Livernois or Dragoon, then the rest on Clark Street at Michigan Avenue. Dunno where Ternstedt was, although I heard that name mentioned. Fleetwood made the ENTIRE coach body of the Cadillacs, it was a riot to see two-thirds of six or seven of 'em on those special trucks going to meet their engine/chassis down on Clark Street. Some of my earliest childhood memories...Body by Fisher. That really meant something to those men...and later the women, too! | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6392 Registered: 10-2003 |
Gannon - Ternstedt was Fort & Livernois. | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 5079 Registered: 10-2003 |
My Moms used to work there back in the 80's... | ||
Southwestmap Member Username: Southwestmap Post Number: 928 Registered: 01-2005 |
You have the pronunciation wrong. It was "Ternstedt's" where people worked, and it was "Fleetwood's" - the real Detroit way. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10594 Registered: 12-2003 |
Thanks AIW...we always referred to it as the Fort Street plant. Weird. Maybe my Irish folk didn't want to call out the Dutch/Deutch name?! | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10595 Registered: 12-2003 |
Stylin' how many wombs did you gestate in?! | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 5081 Registered: 10-2003 |
lmao... | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10596 Registered: 12-2003 |
Couldn't resist, sorry. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1900 Registered: 04-2005 |
 wsu/vmc | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10603 Registered: 12-2003 |
Bad ass, Hornwrecker. Good to see you back 'round. You even found one with one of those trucks in the foreground! | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1901 Registered: 04-2005 |
That was the only photo I've found so far, of one of those Fisher body carriers, and web searches only turn up my posts. Still looking...  Here's a site with the history of Fisher Body: http://www.geocities.com/sponcom26/index.html  | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10607 Registered: 12-2003 |
Heh, that answers my six or seven coach count...I was 'looking' back in my ancient photo memories, the fuzzy ones before my parent's divorce, and just couldn't quite remember. Seven fine coaches on their way to becoming some bigwig's Caddy. (or bigwig wannabee, I guess!) What comedian had the line that he wondered IF Cadillac engineers designed their cars to look ridiculous in ten years when driven by some white-trash drunk in a trailer park...slung low on the center armrest like a white Superfly?! | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10608 Registered: 12-2003 |
Thanks for that link...funny, according to IT, even THEY called the Ternstedt plant 'Fisher Body Fort Street Plant'. I think my father was the Controller there for a short while, or one step below that spot. vindicated, again. huzzah! | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 138 Registered: 09-2006 |
 This was the view we had of the Fleetwood plant from my friend Ron's house across the freeway on Glinnan. This pic is from 78 | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10614 Registered: 12-2003 |
Some complexion problem, hope that cleared up. Is that a Mustang, or hopped up Maverick?! Can't quite tell what type of iron that is... | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 3391 Registered: 12-2005 |
Looks like he's holding an 8-track tape. Those were the days! | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 139 Registered: 09-2006 |
Gannon, complexion problem was because I did not clear with him the use of his pic on the web yet. lol add 30 yrs to him and cut his hair, and you may see him around the area in a Pepsi truck? as far as the car you have a good eye, Hopped up yes, Maverick Grabber (White w/Green stripes)Fun little car to cruise the hood too! | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 141 Registered: 09-2006 |
Little_buddy, I don't know if she worked as a nurse or in a cafeteria, But during those years I remember a very hot looking blond walking down my street to go to work there, wearing the standard white nurse looking outfit in the skirt version, if anyone knows her, tell her thanks from all the guys lol | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10620 Registered: 12-2003 |
I'll ask my father...heh. He's the dude that passed out the paychecks. That Maverick was one of the greatest sleepers of the time. Heck, my mother had one with only that straight six...and I discovered, a few years before getting my license, that if you left the trans in second and jumped on it you could get some great 'action' out of the rear wheels when you threw the tranny into first gear. Made for some fun fishtailing lessons around the Aviation Subdivision proving grounds at Miller/Meyers and Tireman!! The keyhole wore out on the steering wheel, it was probably the first locking system Ford engineered...and I learned during one of my mother's afternoon naps that I could start it without her key! So yeah, got some good memories of the Maverick...AND Fleetwood...you just happened to score with that picture! If he drives for Pepsi, he's always around my neighborhood. I'll have to look up into the cabs as they drive Mack on their way home... | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 1200 Registered: 12-2005 |
A close-up of the Body by Fisher emblem that graced millions of door sill plates.  This emblem was embedded in a souvenir coaster that was produced for an open house at the Fort St. Plant (at Livernois). That open house would have had to have been held sometime during the period 1969-1984 (prior to 1969 it was a Ternstedt plant and Fisher Body no longer existed after 1984).   | ||
Luckycar Member Username: Luckycar Post Number: 46 Registered: 02-2007 |
This Fisher Body Emblem hangs on the wall of Lucky Auto in Pontiac.It is plastic and measures 3 feet wide by 2 feet tall.It came from Fisher Body that used to be in Pontiac.And yes Jjaba the sign reads shalom in hebrew.  | ||
Savannahsmiles Member Username: Savannahsmiles Post Number: 67 Registered: 05-2005 |
My mom worked at that plant for a minute right before I was born in 1966. She sewed upholstery. I can't even imagine what it looks like there now with that building gone. What about the railroad tracks behind it? Are they still used? I used to know all the areas down there where I could outrun a train to get where I was going. |
