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 DrWeird74
Location: Chesterfield, MI
Gender: Male
The Right Man In The Wrong Place Can Make All The Difference In The World
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< on 9/2/2006 12:48 AM >
|  | | | It's been a while since ive been on here...I went here earlier in the yr with some diffrent people each time. It's quite an amazing site the packard plant. This place has been abandonded since the 1980's....Here's some of my photographs...
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minusonebit
   
Location: Oklahoma City, OK, United States
Gender: Male
Will Explore for Food
| |  |  | | | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 1 on 9/2/2006 4:17 AM >
|  | | | Very nice.
I hope you werent walking around on that roof... it looks very unstable.
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DrWeird74
Location: Chesterfield, MI
Gender: Male
The Right Man In The Wrong Place Can Make All The Difference In The World
| | | | | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 2 on 9/2/2006 5:06 AM >
| | | | Yep I did go out on the roof. On the rooftops of some of the buildings they caved in.
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EatsTooMuchJam
  
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Squirty "Stickybuns" von Cherrypants
| | |  | | | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 3 on 9/3/2006 2:54 AM >
| | | | Those roofs aren't so terrible.
Now if only there were some way for me to figure out which days you were there...
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."
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CaitTheGreat
Location: Westerville/Columbus, OH
Gender: Female
| | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 4 on 9/4/2006 2:57 AM >
| | | | Posted by EatsTooMuchJam
Now if only there were some way for me to figure out which days you were there...
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Oh, that made me giggle.
Looks like a nice place. In #17 (I think), it looks like the Kool-Aid Man busted through that wall...
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Ram23
Location: Cincinnati, OH and/or Queens, NY
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 5 on 9/4/2006 5:21 AM >
| | | | | In #17 (I think), it looks like the Kool-Aid Man busted through that wall... |
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dev
Passed away September 23rd, 2006.
| | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 6 on 9/4/2006 8:56 PM >
| | | | Posted by EatsTooMuchJam
Those roofs aren't so terrible.
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the ones out over the shops (far south-east, by frederick & concord) ARE that terrible... steel and tar don't deal with 50 years of abuse all that well.
what's scary is parts like this:
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Curious_George
Location: Cambridge
Gender: Male
Straight outta New Bedlam
| | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 7 on 9/4/2006 10:23 PM >
| | | | Meh, nothing some parkour can't overcome.
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junkyard
Location: LaCrosse, WI
Gender: Male
Strategic Beer Command where the metal hits the meat.
| | | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 8 on 9/5/2006 6:09 PM >
| | | | That section scared you Dev? I went through some of that, but then again, I am just some drunk retarded fuck that nobody even knows.
I drink gasoline for breakfeast and beer for dinner!
Any problem can be licked with a case of beer and a few sticks of dynamite.
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DrDeke
Location: Michigan
Gender: Male
| | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 9 on 9/5/2006 6:20 PM >
| | | | Packard sure is a great place. Judging from your photos, I guess you've seen a few rooms that I haven't found yet  . That's one of the best parts about Packard; you can keep going, and going, and going back, and there's always something you haven't seen yet if you poke around enough.
And the offices -- so swanky! (At least, the bits that haven't been completely trashed are quite swank.) There are a couple of old server rooms in the office area, complete with remnants of raised floors and massive air conditioning machines. It's a shame none of the actual IT equipment is left; I'd get a kick out of seeing what kind of 50s-60s-70s-or-80s-era equipment was last used there.
Also near (but not in) the offices is one remaining frame of a (very) old telephone switch. In addition to the regular station and trunk circuits, I noticed that some of its panels were labelled "AUTOVON" circuits; AUTOVON being the US military phone system used from 1963 through the mid 1980s. The switch frame in the Packard plant looks exactly like the one Panic! found in a Titan I nuclear missile silo in Colorado:
Obviously, Packard Motors didn't use AUTOVON, since they went out of business in the 1950s, and AUTOVON didn't exist until 1963. Paraphernalia that I've found in the Packard office area suggests that the offices were used by DCAS, the "Defense Contract Administration Service," for some period of time after Packard closed, but I have been unable to narrow the date range much further than that. Regardless, they do seem like the kind of outfit that might use AUTOVON, as they would presumably need to communicate with various military bases.
I'd sure like to know which type of telephone switch this frame belongs to, but I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with historic switching equipment to be able to tell.
-DrDeke
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DrWeird74
Location: Chesterfield, MI
Gender: Male
The Right Man In The Wrong Place Can Make All The Difference In The World
| | | | | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 10 on 9/6/2006 4:04 AM >
| | | | Thank you for the comments about the pics. I am planning on going back sometime in the fall/winter. Im trying to find people who wanna go. They boarded up this one part of Packard but the rest is still easy access.
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DrDeke
Location: Michigan
Gender: Male
| | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 11 on 9/6/2006 5:59 PM >
| | | | Drop me a line if you're ever in need of someone to head out that way with. I love the place.
As for the boarding up, I was actually out there the day before yesterday showing Packard to a friend from out of town and saw the new boards. I guess they must have only done it to appease the folks in that one neighborhood along the (east?) side of the plant, since they didn't bother to board up any other sections. Kind of strange... Also, I wonder who actually did the boarding: The City of Detroit, or the private party that claims an ownership interest in the property?
-DrDeke
If you don't want it known, don't say it on a phone. |
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DrWeird74
Location: Chesterfield, MI
Gender: Male
The Right Man In The Wrong Place Can Make All The Difference In The World
| | | | | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 12 on 9/7/2006 4:12 AM >
| | | | My friend was driving around that area and saw some guy with a truck with wood boards and saw him putting them up. Speakin of ease of entry there is soooo many more spots to get in. Also boarded up places....they boarded and gated Fisher body. Hey if your interested in doing some UE on the weekend your more then welcome to join me and my friend.
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DrWeird74
Location: Chesterfield, MI
Gender: Male
The Right Man In The Wrong Place Can Make All The Difference In The World
| | | | | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 13 on 9/7/2006 4:20 AM >
| | | | Here's more of my pics....
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Gatsby
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Like all UER people, I've only explored your mom.
| | Re: Abandonded Packard Motors
<Reply # 14 on 9/7/2006 3:33 PM >
| | | | It's amazing how long these places can remain abandoned - but not for this particular town, apparently.
I was there in January, and I loved every minute of it!
I only listen to 104.7 Poop. I'm always in deep shit, so I may as well listen to poop. |
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