"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
07/15/2020 at 22:00 • Filed to: None
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"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
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Milky
> Boxer_4
07/15/2020 at 22:10 |
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Very prominently displaying a Ford building aren’t they?
facw
> Milky
07/15/2020 at 22:27 |
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Right thought, wrong competing car company:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Center
ranwhenparked
> Milky
07/15/2020 at 22:30 |
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Yeah, kind of funny they put it in front of a Ford- developed building that later became the headquarters of General Motors. Maybe Stellantis just thought Highland Park wasn’t photogenic enough.
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ranwhenparked
> facw
07/15/2020 at 22:31 |
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Renaissance Center was developed by Ford in the 1970s, and was controlled by them until GM bought it in the 1990s and remodeled it as their new headquarters. I’m not sure if it was actually the Ford Motor Company itself, or a separate venture of the Ford family, though.
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facw
> ranwhenparked
07/15/2020 at 22:37 |
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Didn’t know that. Nevermind me then...
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Milky
> facw
07/15/2020 at 22:42 |
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Ha, no worries. I live here and almost typed GM before thinking “wait, what year is in the ad?”
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Milky
> ranwhenparked
07/15/2020 at 22:48 |
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Speaking of highland park, Ford should really fix up the birth place of the assembly line. But it still isn’ t photogenic enough for anyone to care.
arl
> Boxer_4
07/15/2020 at 23:08 |
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You had me at the d ua l horn and 18 gallon gas tank options.....
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ranwhenparked
> facw
07/15/2020 at 23:34 |
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GM’s headquarters at the time was way nicer
Now called Cadillac Place, and occupied primarily by state government offices
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facw
> ranwhenparked
07/15/2020 at 23:37 |
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Yep, I read about it after someone posted a vintage photo here.
SmugAardvark
> Boxer_4
07/16/2020 at 02:01 |
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Glad to know that a front ashtray and vented hubcaps finally come as standard equipment.
RPM esq.
> facw
07/16/2020 at 02:50 |
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Not as of 1982–Henry Ford II developed it and GM had nothing to do with it until they moved in in 1996.
Thisismydisplayname
> ranwhenparked
07/16/2020 at 08:13 |
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And right across the street is the Fisher Building, named for the Fisher Body company that was hooked up with GM back in the day. They are connected by a tunnel under W. Grand Blvd. we used to have an office in the Fisher, but we moved over to New Center, which is connected to both buildings. There’s a historical marker plaque in the Fisher that gives its history, when they shot the last Transformers movie they covered over the plaque with some made up info. Pretty interesting to see how much detail they care about for a relatively throwaway few shots in a movie.
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Milky
> Thisismydisplayname
07/16/2020 at 09:05 |
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Theres a tunnel?! I remember going to Zenith which was in an old bank in the Fisher (Mexican restaurant around 2014?) . It was fun to go to the basement and check out the vault ... then wander around in the hallways down there.
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ranwhenparked
> Thisismydisplayname
07/16/2020 at 10:06 |
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Fisher was bought out by GM in the '20s and operated as their primary in-house body manufacturer, supplying all their divisions until the '80s, when it was dissolved in Roger Smith's restructuring.
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Thisismydisplayname
> Milky
07/16/2020 at 10:57 |
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Lol Zenith, I remember that place. That location has had so many restaurants in and out over the years it’s hard to keep track. But yeah the stairs down from right across the restaurant doors goes downstairs, one tunnel to the Kahn building and one to cadillac place. They’ve since closed off the access to Kahn and the doors locked into cadillac without a key card. But you can walk out of cadillac into the Fisher. We used to do laps in the winter.
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Thisismydisplayname
> ranwhenparked
07/16/2020 at 10:58 |
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Yeah I remember the “body by Fisher” tag on my moms ‘85 olds. Right on the sill plate.