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The few automobile production facilities still located within Detroit city boundaries loom like fortresses, surrounded by earthen walls and acres of parking lots, but it bears remembering that the city was once home to countless factories located in neighborhoods where employees could actually walk to work. Many of these automotive nameplates disappeared long ago, known only to vintage car buffs.
In the earliest days of the auto industry, the Milwaukee Junction area was the epicenter thanks to its proximity to Grand Trunk and Michigan Central railroad lines. There was the famed Fisher Body Plant Number 21, on Piquette Avenue between Hastings and St. Antoine, a 1919 Albert Kahn building atop of which sat the landmark Goodyear Car Production Sign for many years. There was also an early Ford factory on Piquette as well as a Studebaker facility. An early Cadillac plant at 450 Amsterdam Avenue has housed the Westctott Paper Company for many years.
Cadillac relocated to a massive facility that opened in 1919, the Cadillac Assembly Plant in southwest Detroit. Once the most modern plant in the world, it pumped out Fleetwoods, Eldorados, and other emblems of GM's top luxury line until 1987. The site is now home to the Clark Street Technology Park.
Demolition was halted, by contrast, on the old Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard near I-94 thanks to a lawsuit. Yet another Kahn-designed factory, it boasted the world's first structurally reinforced concrete industrial structure among its acres of buildings. Packard was the top-selling luxury car for much of the 1920s and '30s, but the company fell on hard times after a merger with Studebaker in 1954. An entirely new generation of fans discovered the Packard plant thanks to massive techno parties in the mid-1990s.
Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly plant occupies acres of the east side, but in the past there were several other factories nearby. The old Continental Motors at Jefferson near Conner, which closed in 1965, still stands in all its tragic, rusty glory.
