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This is chilling to me as a former Michigan resident, places like this are all over the state, abandoned Big 3 plants in almost every city...My parents are from Flint and Detroit areas and its so sad seeing these huge places as a kid, and now their gone, huge parking lots that held 3-4 shifts worth of workers, 24-7 building cars, now empty...the bars and restaraunts that serviced the workers, barely holding on...I am brand new to this page, but it has engulfed me!!! I would Love to see more from Michigan and the auto industry, and the price the midwest has paid for poor leadership, over powering unions, and people buying foreign made auto's....beautiful photos!!!

Mrs Lieb, thank you for weighing in on the conversation. The "Ranch" is deeply embedded in all of us , it taught us respect and hard work, and the meaning of fun, it continues to guide us now, you should be very proud that you could give your children the joy of growing there, I am sure that they will hold their memories as closely as we all hold ours.

those fireflies also look like fairies.

These infrared shots are great-can't even tell it's night!

Happy Holidays to all of you Sunny Croft memory keepers. This has been a wonderful gift you have shared. You all may have been before my time at the Ranch, but reading your notes has been a pleasure.
I am the widow of Artie Lieb , we owned the Sunnycroft for 6 years (1979 - 1985) my seven children worked and lived with us at the property . Would love to hear from anyone who lived or worked at the property.

G's seeing what he/she wants to see. There's nothing conclusive in the room that could possibly be construed as anything paranormal. If you want to truly find evidence of the paranormal, you have to be extremely skeptical. I'm sure Motts would have marked the pictures if he/she (sorry, I'm now, I'm not sure who you are, Motts!) thought there was anything worth noting. You're not going to see anything conclusive on compressed digital images on your monitor that the original photographer would have missed.

i wanna visit it

It looks like it says "dad" to me.

I need some hangers, I'm running out. Where is this place, so that I may get some free hangers? j/k. Just want to say: I stumbled upon this site last night looking for some places like this in Illinois and could barely sleep after seeing the picture, now, I'm addicted. Keep up the work!

The object in his hand is a Kettlebell a popular Russian strength building tool

It's even more breth taking at night, looking at the bridges goin into nyc. A great place to make "F Motions"!

I have a desk clock my wife bought me a long time ago at SASCO. It was made from flooring obtained during demolition of part of the Studebaker assembly plant floor in 1992-1993. It has a number of #206 stamped in it. It is interesting that it looks like it could have been from a wood block like the ones in this picture. It is flat on the bottom, arched at the top ( probably a band saw ) and routered on the front edges to dress it up. A large hole was cut in the face to hold a battery powered clock. I suspect these blocks were used in a lot of Studebakers old buildings, if not all of them. My Dad, Uncles, Granddad, Brothers, Father-in-law, Cousins, numerous neighbors and friends all worked there at one time or another. Certinally one of them would remember if these blocks were used in the assembly plant building as well as the stamping plant. I certainly ask someone just from curiosity.

This reminds me so much of Azkaban from Harry Potter. Very ghastly looking.

Pigeons! How can you tell BDSman? I really didnt think they were geese, but liked the thought of it anyways ha! How do we know they werent black- birds?