186 Comments for Packard Automotive Plant

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Some real depth captured here Motts! I can see the massiveness of this place by looking through the windows, and then the windows beyond them!!
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Almost better then a long hallway shot!
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Such a beautifully detailed shot Motts! It looks like some alien planets landscape!
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AHHH!!!
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That is SO weird......
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How are the FLOORS?? =: - o
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My long hallway shot!!! :)
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LOVE this place! Thanks for the new gallery Motts!!
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For anyone who wonders, the brick arch is classic Roman arch architecture. They first built wooden frames for support of the arch then laid the bricks on top of the frame. When the mortar was dried, they remove the wooden frame support/mold. From the top, gravity puts pressure towards the outside of each side of the arch effectively supporting the top bricks which look like they should fall in. The bricks may also tapered towards the top, meaning wider at the top of the brick and narrower at the bottom which further helps strengthen the arch. This engineering concept actually dates from the pre-Roman Greeks and was a major milestone in modern architecture that the Romans first used large scale.
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Woot woot new gallery!
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It looks like and MC Escher engraving. Very Very Cool
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Thanks for a great new gallery. I was so excited when I saw it appear - it was hard to finish going through the other one that I'd already started. Fantastic shots of an great factory with awesome history and future potential. Thanks again, for all of your efforts posting pictures of places I'll probably only be able to visit in my dreams.
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Flushed, I just about covered my laptop in coffee! Man, you brought back some memories. I can't believe someone remembered that; I'm going to have it running through my mind all night. lol
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This really reminds me of when I was in graduate school in the 1980s. The science building (my major was microbiology) was in an old parking garage that had been converted into a building - the ramps were even still there connecting the floors! This photo with the ramp and windows immediately took me back to my graduate years!
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I just noticed the piers on the right. That one closest to us has a pipe support mounted on it probably for a 12" line.