History of hastings st. and many pictures. Oh and some packard info

[Lombaowski]

Concord was blocked off because scrappers caused a wall of the plant to collapse.

Say hello to the pricks that do not care about the city they live in or the others they share it with.

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Photos courtesy of MCM,more here along with the story.

http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2013/1...packard-plant/

I've spent a lot of time in Africa, that looks like Africa.

Website is great though, the Woodward/Vernor picture is pretty damn sad though.

[EastsideAl]

And then there's the Hastings St. Opera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHKuB4NdTSU

[[With historical comment by our old friend Marsha)

[night-timer]

The OP's question is very old - posted a few years back.

There's some real Detroit history and architecture around Hastings Street. It's the New Center area.

I used to explore the area on foot or on my bike. It's just east of Woodward Avenue, west of I-94 and south of East Grand Boulevard. There's two Fisher plants, the Ford Model T museum and a bigger building [[on Piquette at John R) that burned down.

I don't know if the OP ever found the information he sought.

The New Center Stamping plant [[corner of Hastings Street and East Milwaukee Avenue at the overhead railway) was re-named Detroit New Stamping when it was used as a location in the Eminem movie '8 Mile Road'.

Apparently the owners of New Center Stamping were pleased with all the attention they received when filming was taking place.