Vintage Chrysler Corp dealership pics
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MrMoparCHP
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78Brougham
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Nice find chp.. looks like it was out in the country back in the day, but must be in a bad part of town now.
MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
I'm not sure if you think this might be the location but I'm 100% sure the link I posted is it.
Eleven pages down on this they make reference to the Bob Bauer connection althought Buick,
http://www.retailinsite.net/downloads/LemonGrove_OM.pdf
another site made reference to the location being at the 94 and College.
In the Google map link you can see the outline of the building (angled portion at the end) with the ramp still there.
I love before and afters when you can see the original subjects in the current.
Alan
OK - deleted
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ceebuddy
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Street View
Really looks like it is the same building (from an opposite point of view). Now a Toyota dealership.
Really looks like it is the same building (from an opposite point of view). Now a Toyota dealership.
Aerial view
MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
The green outlined building is the one seen in the old postcard, the picture was taken from the direction of the red arrow.
The complete building (not just the green outline) was there in the 1967 Topo, the second building below that was added in the 70's
The freeway wasn't there in 1953 (not even a road), it was shown as proposed in 1963 which probably explains the orientation of the building, they probably didn't expect a raised freeway.
Alan
70bigblockdodge
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My 69 Barracuda was sold new out of Lemon Grove Ca.
C Body Bob
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C Body Bob
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C Body Bob
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MrMoparCHP
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805 West 5th Street, Austin, Texas
It was there in April 2006, gone in February 2007
Alan
Bastards....
Northland Chrysler (Plymouth/Imperial) Dodge Jeep Ram, Oak Park Michigan suburb just across "8 Mile Road" from Detroit. (yes, the "8 Mile" of Marshall Mathers fame 
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BEFORE, Circa mid 1960's (Already posted in #35)
CIRCA 2015 (Same building, obviously remodeled)
btw, metro detroit area of FULL of these "before and afters" of vintage dealerships. could do a whole thread on this city's dealerships alone .. illuminating and interesting, but a bit depressing too as it reflects the city's long decline. Things are looking up though
)BEFORE, Circa mid 1960's (Already posted in #35)
CIRCA 2015 (Same building, obviously remodeled)
btw, metro detroit area of FULL of these "before and afters" of vintage dealerships. could do a whole thread on this city's dealerships alone .. illuminating and interesting, but a bit depressing too as it reflects the city's long decline. Things are looking up though
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Our distant cousins (through AM General), so obviously not really "Chrysler" but a neat old brand. Studebaker. May resonate with some of us
Illustrates, however, where most of the neat old Detroit area dealerships went. Centerline is a working-class suburb of Detroit -- grew really fast after WWII, and even faster in the 1960's. The dealers followed the people .. makes sense.
ALL photos below are looking from South to North.
Centerline Motor Sales, Centerline Michigan, 1950
2016, Same Location. A BOA branch outlot of a strip mall.
Just for fun? Roughly (within 100 yards), the same Location in the early 1920's. It was still a farm...that's how fast area grew.
Illustrates, however, where most of the neat old Detroit area dealerships went. Centerline is a working-class suburb of Detroit -- grew really fast after WWII, and even faster in the 1960's. The dealers followed the people .. makes sense.
ALL photos below are looking from South to North.
Centerline Motor Sales, Centerline Michigan, 1950
2016, Same Location. A BOA branch outlot of a strip mall.
Just for fun? Roughly (within 100 yards), the same Location in the early 1920's. It was still a farm...that's how fast area grew.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
... Michigan suburb just across "8 Mile Road" from Detroit. (yes, the "8 Mile" of Marshall Mathers fame
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I remember visiting a friend who lived in Sterling Heights in '74 and when I suggested we venture to see some of the Detroit sights, he said "we don't go past 9 Mile Road". Of course this was in the era of overturned and burning cars.
your friend was being "conservative" -- allowing a wider buffer zone.
the South side of Eight Mile Road (the direction the dealership is facing) is Detroit and that part of the city was still really really nice in 1974 (brick houses, treelined streets, even good schools).
In 1974 you needed to go four miles further south to get to the area where stuff was on fire/Sherman tanks in the street and the like in the unrest of the 1960's.
In the intervening years up to turn of century (1970-2000), some argued (with some merit) you might wanna stay NORTH of 10 Mile Rd (yes, two miles behind this dealership) if you didn't want trouble.
Today, a tale of Two-Plus cities north and south of 8 Mile. The East/West string of adjacent suburbs stabilizing themselves to the North..Detroit working hard to get back on its feet and making progress on the South side.
C Body Bob
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Anyone know the purpose for a building of this shape? Hen house?
Small footprint and Had to have a specific reason for those outward sloping walls I mean. Or out house maybe .. yeah that makes some sense. Room at top to maneuver and small footprint to move to a new position.
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Small footprint and Had to have a specific reason for those outward sloping walls I mean. Or out house maybe .. yeah that makes some sense. Room at top to maneuver and small footprint to move to a new position.
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