Patrick Member Username: Patrick
Post Number: 4387 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, May 07, 2007 - 10:58 pm: | |
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 |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1275 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 7:56 am: | |
Why stop there? keep 'em coming! |
Nativegirl Member Username: Nativegirl
Post Number: 73 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 9:41 am: | |
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? |
Patrick Member Username: Patrick
Post Number: 4390 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 10:01 am: | |
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. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1276 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:12 am: | |
Here's a Packard (about 1908) in front of the Detroit Boat Club on Belle Isle
Here's a 1929 Model entering Ferndale on Woodward
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) |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 1417 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:27 am: | |
Oh, boy...I think this is going to be a great thread....... |
Quinn Member Username: Quinn
Post Number: 1297 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:30 am: | |
Where's the "Moorings" mansion? LOVE IT!!!! I want to sit in that car with a big 'ole blue wig and scarf. |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2253 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:46 am: | |
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 |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2254 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:46 am: | |
P.S....Patrick: Nice thread!!!! |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1277 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 12:24 pm: | |
a professional packard ca. 1925, taken at 545 E.Jefferson, looking east, I think
1929 Packard phaeton in front of the Grosse Pointe Yacht club
1931 sedan, taking delivery in front of the East Grand Boulevard plant
1932 sedan, in front of Truman Newberry's home in GP |
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81
Post Number: 1420 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 4:08 pm: | |
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! |
Jimg Member Username: Jimg
Post Number: 842 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 7:09 pm: | |
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Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik
Post Number: 215 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 7:28 pm: | |
Soldier with 1941 Cadillac by the Book Tower. Ookpik |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 1420 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 7:36 pm: | |
"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! |
Patrick Member Username: Patrick
Post Number: 4392 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 7:40 pm: | |
Was that side of the Truman Newberry home facing the lake? |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1279 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:07 pm: | |
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. |