186 Comments for Packard Automotive Plant

@Autoguy lmao

Well that isn't creepy at all... Lol

As a Detroiter that is very true ^

Interesting

Awesome gallery. I've always wondered if there was something about the energy of people living/working in a space that keeps it from falling in decay so rapidly. Like the energy of living reinforces a place... something like that. Because I think of my condo, its 35 years old. And yeah, Ive had to do little repairs here and there over the years. But it seems even without vandalism a place falls into ruin insanely fast once abandoned. Like 5-10 years.

Darlene, I think its the reversion to chaos and desire to act out that exists within all humans. To play armchair psychologist, I think its because clean new buildings often represent an orderly society and the pinnicle of mankinds achievment and life experience, so then a rotting abandoned building represents the decay and failure of society. So because society puts strictures of "proper" behavior on humans, people are more tempted to break those strictures when confronted with a symbol of the failure of "orderly society", they get a thrill from doing a forbidden act. Its just a theory, but it makes sense in my mind. In all my years of fascination with and exploration of abandoned places, it always seems that a building that is abandoned but in good repair doesnt attract as much wanton vandalism as a decrepit one.

In an abandoned mental hospital, the lonely wheelchair. In the abandoned car plant, the lonely bucket seats...

Great place to see .
Will there be more from Detroit?,no shortage of abandonment there.

May be there were sconces there - one on each side - the switch in the middle?

Wouldn't the bricks make good insulation? Maybe they made the bricks and when they needed to repair something they put them into the walls? Just making it up as I go.

So...a machine that pressed the shredded documents into bricks? Now...if so: that really IS cool + neat, indeed. The IDEA...

Exstensive vast - all that wood.......

Love those numbers: 2072
2173 Arrow. Means head?

Very solid! Lots of concrete...

Skills you all