Exploring Detroit's Abandoned Car Factories 

*PEACE WAS NEVER AN OPTION*

They get annoyed and attackish very easily. It's actually quite amusing. :)

Rocket Scientists: The goose was female and protecting her nest full of eggs. They do get nasty and can injure you. I have fought a goose off.

Gregory Kayne: indeed! She was funny though! It is amusing when they get squawky and hissy! 😁

Yeah you prolly just dont want to be there when the sun goes down. Think of it as Dying Light

Thank you for the history, really interesting to know what happened to the plant.

So your company buying the building to wholesale its contents to the Japanese was okay but scrappers aren't, got it

Ya absolutely. We sold what we weren't using. Such as machinery and presses. We used the building for 30 yrs after GM. Then sold it to the asshole who destroyed it and left it in such disarray. Si ya.... you sounded real dumb with your comment

What brand screw machine you build and run there? I ran Davenports for years.

We ran mostly acme, we also ran some new britans. But we built them all. One half of the building was to run them. The other half we built em and we built them all. Including the little sewing machines known as Davenport's. Lol

Bless you Pal .😀😀😀😀😀😀

Union is the problem.

@@FarikoPacer 😆 said by a 🐀

Amen to that Brother ,and thats from England .

​@@lousassle2327he's not wrong. Unions were great early on but became greedy corporations in and of themselves. They stifled innovation to protect redundant jobs and demanded higher wages constantly to fill their coffers and enrich the management more than to protect workers. They basically became rackets.

To recycle the metal for their drug habits maybe? I live in TJ and people steal metal street signs and metal sitting benches to scrap metal for meth

Dude, I knew all of that .. Perhaps my sarcasm doesn't come over that well on the internet??

@@shoominati23 you sir are correct!

Probably Aztek owners. Want no trace of their shame to exist.

Breaking Bad

I also learned this at the academy. Good shit

yeah when coming across QUESTIONABLE stairs give the advice to climb them u fucking fool,plus the stringer itself could be compromised.Moron

MrGsp160 questionable men’s if your not sure not completely falling apart

@@mrgsp1608 How else are you supposed to run a line into a building where the fire is in an internal room on the upper floor?

Shut up bitch what do u no u just a gurl

Jason Morgan Was going to comment the same thing! HUGE missed opportunity. It would have also been good to interview some former workers.

Oooh, I would LOVE that! That would take this video to a whole new level!

Jason agreed 👍

I was thinking the exact same :)

J-BOOM

It looks like New York City in the early 80's. Looks like a bomb went off,and all the survivors just left.

I spent the first 52 years of my life in the Det burbs. Great hard working people who love their sports teams. Detroit gets a bad rap:((

@@garyrentschler1023 i wholeheartedly agree. I visited twice to see the Red wings play and it was a damn good time. Saw them at the Joe and the little caesars arena. It's a city with a lot of history and that kind of stuff is right up my alley.

@@leesuschrist If you're ever there again, Greenfield village and Henry Ford museum in Dearborn are a must see!! They're next to each other. The village you'll want to do in the summer:) HISTORY GALORE!!!

didn't ask

my best friend his mom's mom her parents is parents started the plant

your stepdaughter?

That's sick dude

I grew up in the sub across the street from the packard plant.

Agreed! Their editing work is top-shelf. I appreciate the way these guys will actually let the camera linger on a particularly interesting subject, giving the viewer a chance to fully soak their eyes on it. And they only allow just a bit of genuine humor, enough to keep it real; unlike other Urbex channels that try using lame comedy to compensate for their lack of talent.

LIkewise... TOP NOTCH, guys!

Dead ass

The sheer size of those buildings is phenomenal. Another great place for a giant indoor skateboarding scene....heck, you could stage bicycle races in there! ;*[}

kirbyyasha Exactly! I used to watch Josh but he doesn't touch much on the history. His lack of knowledge about the machines he sees and other building features makes his videos much less interesting than my dudes The Proper People

@@surrealkitten9670 The problem with Josh is he let the fame get to his head, he's kinda clickbaity

aww man you're a cat AND a historian? cool man

Except he left out the impact the unions had on the cost of American cars, the resulting crappy products compared with the Japanese, and conveniently blamed it all on freeways (cars!) and racism. Those that fail to get to the truth on these things keep a system or an industry or a city or people from ever making progress.

David Epperson hmm ok that's important as well.

Good goose

"How much damage can a goose do?" "Why don't you find out?" 🤣🤣🤣

Steve the goose has has always been cool going way back

It's called Geese, not goose.

@@trailblazer5273 Well, you know what, Steve the goose thinks you're a b****

Wait, which part?

sunny pop 27:00

Suprised you didnt have respirators ya know? 1920's and all?

Detroit is low on money. A goose is cheap.

they walked near the nest so he flew down to attack

Hjönk

so funneh!. :)

@@Rainbow__cookie hahaha!

He could have just fed the goose...

AmstradExin even if he'd fed him, I'm willing to bet he still would have hissed anyway. Lol. They can be quite moody and cantankerous

@@collectorenthusiastic427 indeed

is it legal to explore abandoned buildings? and even if it is illegal, do police care: like how speeding is illegal.

@@alexlu9564 well its not legal really, but the detroit police are undermanned and have better things to do than sit outside old buildings

@@collectorenthusiastic427 More like give the man some drugs, he'll eat the brick...

@@collectorenthusiastic427 destroy it?? Probably smoke it you mean

Same! 😆😒😭

im 25 and i know what that was. My father is olds man.

My first car I got as a kid. What a piece of crap car. I'm surprised the company lasted as long as it did.

I felt the same way lol. It hasnt been that long tho. Thatd be no different then saying you dont recognize the Pontiac Logo or dont recognize Hummer or Mercury because they all went down with Oldsmobile at that time.

I'm 17 and owned 2

Sorry to hear that. They’re very collectible now, you might be sitting on a small fortune.

Smaller buildings yea but those places have concrete and steal ceilings

You take a 20' fall don't know what underneath. Pipe sticking out cemented into the slab. Ouch.!

@@squirlboy250 Yeah you punks know more than us old guys that built this stuff don't you!!??.

@@packingten LMAO A real Tuff guy on the ol interwebs Hu? Being That this is kinda what I do to make some of those green backs, yeah I might know a thing or two. Have a great day hope you can find some peace in your soul for what ever has you all up tight.

Plus the ballast is heavy af and with the deterioration that we can see in the rest of the building, should def be careful bc whether it's plywood sheathing underneath or something stronger that won't matter if the building decides it can't hold it up anymore.

Or pipe.

Oh no. It's gone for sure

you owe me a dollar

I got a crisp dollar for you if you beat My ass, in a walmart parking lot of your choosing.

@@Valspartame_Maelstrom I'll be there in 10.. bring your dollar! Lol!

That goose is probably the only reason the pristine white water tower wasn't tagged, that's prime real estate just begging to be tagged. No one messes with that goose!

Oh god your profile picture it scares me

...except when being chased by a goose!

Quite effective I might add.

I think you mean “evil duck”

Yea it looks like crimes for five bucks out there . the humans really outdid them self's on this one . as bad and worse than the gold rush but for cheaper .

Yo I'm actually crying bro that shits too funny

I hear they work for peanuts.

That's hilarious. 😂😂😂

Nothing new here, the Romans used gooses to defend their Capitol back in antiquity.

are they not demolishing it>

These guys have amazing footage, wonderful use of parallax

The owner of the plant, rather buildings and property has begun to take down and make headway

As of last year(2019), portions of the Packard site were already or will soon be made habitable again for art space/ small businesses. It was also reported that tours would be available of limited parts of the facility deemed safe to enter. Elsewhere on YT, there is footage of some of the plant interior. I seem to remember upholstered seats still strewn about. The last Detroit built Packard rolled out of there in 1956. Unlike GM facilities, I believe Packards were made from the ground up totally in that complex as opposed to the sub assembly/support locations assembly methods of the GM system. Much of the dramatic overhead shot of the Packard facility illustrates the ravages of vandalism and effects of six plus decades of vacancy at the complex. There is no possible way the entire plant will ever be occupied again because of the extreme levels of ruin and destruction there. Much like the rest of abandoned auto factories littering Detroit and elsewhere, modern production is no longer dependent on facilities that are dinosaur behemoths left over from one hundred or more years ago. Unfortunately, more so than other factory towns, Detroit is ill equipped to absorb and revitalize the massive amounts of properties left behind by the auto industry. While the 1950's were boom times for the industry, the bottom would fall out by 1958 resulting in the disappearance of Packard, De Soto and Edsel by 1960. Hudson was already done by 1954 or 1956, depending on what one considers a "true" Hudson to be. The first wave of import vehicle encroachment was well underway, with Detroit's initial responses not coming until 1960. Meanwhile, Packard was absorbed by Studebaker, who kept the name going until 1958 on rebadged upline Hawk models built in South Bend IN. Studebaker, never flush with capital to modernize product, much less absorb costs of a second location essentially bought Packard in name only and literally walked away from everything else connected to production in Detroit. When Studebaker closed their South Bend operation c.1964, it is said that the factory operation was halted in mid production resulting in the discovery years later of vehicles in various stages of assembly still sitting on the line with the supporting parts inventory still in place.

Same!!!!

Yeah those were quite common on GM cars and trucks up until the mid 80's.

@@KK-ex5zu I remember asking Granddaddy " who is Fisher"? Lots of folks are asking the same thing now.

They used to make horse-drawn wagon bodys & they made the the switch to autos

Julie Huggins I remember those on Buick wagons up til the mid 1980’s.

Best cars in the world? Nice joke.

Hahahaha one came at me like a boss and I showed it I bitch slapped that muther so hard he flew the other way

@@brandondingman1434 lmao🤣🤣🤣

they'll break your arm you know eh

They are evil creatures.

@@brianhume4743 yes I agree with you.

Are you from Detroit?

Roy Ashley he lives with the goose

I'm from Detroit

Hi friend, my first car was a 1976 Buick Century. Was it made in that Fischer plant 21?

Apart or a part ? 😈

I'm sure you know what she meant 🙄

@caniborrow20dollars I actually still spend time there. & yes the city could use some work. But there tons of opportunities for ownership. Maybe stop complaining in comment sections & invest in some businesses like my family has. That’s one way to turn your city around since you care so much.

​@@digitalchaos1980 ...the guy making this video reminds me of the Devil. He's a LIAR. Only showing the blight and not the nicer parts of Detroit. His racist parents got ran otta Detroit...lol

​@@tinaamariee832 ....the guy making this video reminds me of the Devil. He's a LIAR. Only showing the blight and not the nicer parts of Detroit. His racist parents got ran otta Detroit...lol

I heard this on another podcast. The stuff that went on these factories was crazy

Plants are even bigger today.

Bro I'm from Detroit and I'd pick up hitchhikers. This isn't Chicago.

correction : Goose from Detroit and they on his block!!

I wonder how one duels Yugioh style with baseball cards where the players are like monsters. But the players can see each others' hands because the info is on both sides of the card.

I wonder how one duels Yugioh style with baseball cards where the players are like monsters. But the players can see each others' hands because the info is on both sides of the card.

That goose will fuck you up.

They're racist.

@@TheWheresgeorger4a You're a fuckin' idiot.

@@TheWheresgeorger4a There's literally no evidence of that, you're just a clown

Roy Ashley Your racist for sayin dat

I’ll try not to take it personally

Pcb's

Tyler Victor id love to get my hands on some of those cards. OHL mint condition cards!

Hey Tyler! Candice says hi.

@@robertkovac4598 their worthless

Gary v could make a flip off thos

Ohl is junk buddy

Screaming & running like lil' girls...LMFAO

@@KubotaManDan yeah... it wasn't even funny.

The Gander was protecting it's Goose and Goslings.

That's only because it was still daylight.

Don't underestimate geese, they're probably more dangerous than the entire hood.

That goose looked pretty fierce though.

Seriously! Those rickety floors, ropes, ladders and stairs could have given way annd left you with broke bones and a cracked skull and your afraid of a silly goose? They will leave a few welts that will be gone within a week.

@@lsswappedcessna I'd have been more worried about homeless junkies stabbing me than a stupid bird I can kick in the face, also what MorgueMaid said.

Yeah. That's why I enjoy this channels content. I did hate when they collaborated with Exploring With Josh but that's because he matches the criteria of what you just explained.

They don't scream? They do, like little girls, when a goose shows up!!! HaHa!

@@OttyYolf I cannot stand that Josh kid. Everything is "haunted" or has "ghosts". Also, his grammar is awful lol.

It would have been so much funnier if they always trashed the places when they’re done exploring.

@@sebbekartellen6493 I really don't think they could've trashed that place lol

Remember proset football cards, they just dumped loads of cards onto the market!

VulpesHilarianus has

I worked at the Ford Cleveland Casting Plant, there was a lot of stuff there that was likely from when they opened the place in '52. They don't replace things that they don't have to.

Happens all over my friend. The greed of large corportions adds to it because many countries offer cheaper labor. Soon wont be any jobs left

@@shawnkelly1241 You are correct.

How did the government sell out its workers? The American people have shown decades of willingness to let factory jobs go if it means they save a few bucks at Walmart. Why would a company go through the risk of committing millions of dollars into a factory, setting up the machines, hiring/training the workers and setting up the logistics only to be met with: struggling to sell to Americans who cant/wont buy your goods. Americans have shown that the only thing they hate more than losing manufacturing jobs is actually buying American manufactured goods.

@@xxjr8axx trade deals are a huge part of it ! NAFTA is one that shut down a lot of car factories, lower taxes and cheap wages $ 2 hr in Mexico ! A lot of this decline came from Clinton’s trade deals , with China and Mexico

@@wadevermeersch5401 The true heart of the problem is that the average person doesn’t care about something if it doesn’t affect them. If a friend looses their job its a shame but your still fine, when you lose your job all of a sudden America is going in the wrong direction. Everyone supports American manufacturing until they go to the store, when it comes time to put their money where their mouth is the vast majority fail. Sure trade deals like NAFTA TPP devastate American manufacturing but their only speeding up what was already going on for decades.

Jeff Davis omg that was the best summary of the video lol.

Exactly! If there were a wasp or hornet nest I could understand but a silly goose!

🤣🤣😂

@@MorgueMaid Geese will fuck you up something rotten. They're bad tempered and have no qualms with ruining your day

Never mess with a goose, man.

And the noises they made while running away from the goose, I was rollin

Seems legit

Far superior in Quality and construction !

my dads Cadillac had tiny 'Body By Fisher" stitched in the seatbelts, but you had to look close. they just looked like stripes. very cool

ALL CARS WITH "BODY BY FISHER" WE'RE ONLY GENERAL MOTORS CARS, FISHER BODY HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE EARLY 1900s

Fisher body plant was in Ontario Ohio near Mansfield. Just about 20 min from me. The tool and die plant.

My '79 Trans Am T-top has those "Body by Fisher" plates on the door sills. Hatch roof bodies for the old F-bodies were made by either Fisher or Hurst until mid-1978, then exclusively Fisher thereafter. Mine came from the Norwood plant in Ohio.

Fisher

LA USD My 78 el Camino says that on each side under the doors.

Yeah, my '66 Oldsmobile has a "Body by Fischer" kick plate.

The problem was the Democratic party supporting the unions.

Very Good Eye !! 😏👍

@@abeninan4017 No, the problem was neither party supported the unions. Is the middle class, or what's left of it, better off now than 40 years ago? I think not!!!

You think it's funny for the people that live there ?

@Heinrich Himmler They could also stop voting Democrat: the political regime responsible for their perpetual state of poverty.

@Heinrich Himmler you know nothing of the frustration s of being a person of standards being surrounded by people who don't care by the sounds of it. You must be far to privaledged.

Of course someone makes a joke and some millenial hair bun wearing hipster has to get political. The joke was funny now shut the fuck up

@@pissoff234 You found that funny? You sad wanker.

Shoot oldsmobile has made some machines.

@spam lite right!!!! what i was thinking!!

......we know old you are...."What the heck is that in the middle" LMAO!

Anyone over 40 said Oldsmobile.

The Buick Oldsmobile Cadillac (BOC) Group was a division within GM. Shame on them for not recognizing a brand that was over 100 years old.

They not only already know but are responsible.

They did it

@@ttgk8506 When businesses can't afford tax hikes and unions keep pushing for more while starving citizens of other nations are willing to do the work for pennies on the dollar in a country with little or no taxes, this is the result. Yet, supposedly, we vote for this to happen over and over again. If anyone wants to argue with me spare me, please...

They don't care, as long as they can line there pockets with cash they will destroy or ruin anything and anyone..

Why?

TheBostonscammyd1983 no need to be a dick about it man

Yes people do care about hockey cards 1970s card's

Downtown Detroit is actually gorgeous... But one mile outside of the downtown area and everything is condemned. I live in Toledo currently, and have lived all over the US.... With that being said, people from Detroit take so much pride in that city. It's actually really fucking admirable. It's a city unlike any other.

@@tchombre1992 We have the spirit to make a comeback, even though I'm sure im not the only one thinking "White people living in the D? Wtf" (no offense) I lived there for a while though and moved just past 8 mile like 7 years ago but still call it my city pridefully so you're not wrong

thats not a sentence you idiot.

Lol remember sk8 t.v.

This made me snicker,classic

@@jacobpoucher you must be fun at parties

Jacob Poucher How is ”skate kingz” not a sentence? I guess i’m an idiot then lol

They were only kids. So it's not that surprising they didn't know it

Pichudies.mp4 It's called doing research. Pre-Zoomers know history from when they were kids and before they were born. Most things happened before we were born. I've noticed in their videos how lazy they are with facts, would be better if they just didn't do commentary.

I had 442 sleek car. I had a Cutlass. The love of my life. Saw a friend after 20 years and first thing he mentioned was how much he loved my Cutlass.

With the red fender liners. Remeber that?

@@jessicah3450 huh? They didn't know the logo, I didn't know the logo and I'll bet a years salary I've forgotten more history than you'll ever know.

hahah true!

I'll never forget about 3D Pipes

Lillian Smith I didn't know until relatively recently about the agriculture in MI. I have had the cherries and the asparagus. I will be looking for more next year.

Right. A 3 million square foot art gallery. Try heating and cooling THAT for even 1 month!!!! ROFLMAO😆😆😆😆😆

How appropriate for the late 90s and 2000s goodness i miss those eras

Lol

@Jimmy Neal Boom.You hit the Nail on the Head.

Fuck! political fanatics you people are the worst

@@alanharper4910 No fanatics, just cold hard facts.

GM never had a Golden Era. They were always fucking garbage. Unfortunately.

243wayne1 no they weren’t. GM used to have one of the most advance vehicles when they had American car factories... literally the proclaimed “white flight” was a bullshit claim made by angry impoverished blacks of Detroit... DM was slowly surpassing other competitors until the NAFTA agreement was pushed... that was what fucked over the majority of all businesses in America... mainly the manufacturing industry... we are still feeling the negative impacts from it... we lost mainly most of our factories and even our resource factories became hard to function and slowly gone out of business... it’s sad because Detroit wouldn’t have had this issue if NAFTA never happened...

@@mrpumperknuckles1631 shoulda voted perot

@@243wayne1 Id agree with you on most of that comment. However, I will say that my latest BMW I believe had a GM transmission in it. Ran great too. I think the people who made them were awesome but the design team and engineers failed.

I'm from Flint Michigan too birthplace of General Motors 1908 by William C Durant

There's still a GM plant in Windsor, Ontario, my sister had a Buick Regal that was made in Windsor. This was in the early 90s. She lives in California.

you're a woman.

@@_Highvalue_ ...wHat?

As he was screaming, I thought to myself, "who brought a little kid along?"....then I realized it was a man screaming like a little girl. LOL.

Mike Keller You would have done the same thing don’t lie 😂

What about what Detroit rebuilt?

To tide you over until the rest of the Proper People's Detroit series, take a look at Urbex Dane's channel. He has done videos of several abandoned buildings (schools, businesses, homes, churches) in both Detroit and Cleveland. Recognize your name from comments on Spats Bear's electronics channel.

YAS! More vids in Detroit! Just be safe boys!

All of these businesses are Masonic. Regular people could never get through all the red tape and financial hurdles to create an automobile factory otherwise I'd start one tomorrow and be a billionaire. The top Jews in charge all walked away rich and unaffected to other ventures when the factories closed down. Henry Ford portrayed himself as anti-Jew for subterfuge so people wouldn't suspect Judeo Masonry is actually their government and Big Business combined. It would be droll if the explorers got robbed and killed by the blacks like in Colin Flaherty videos while exploring Detroit. Being white, that's all the reason those blacks would need to attack them.

All of these businesses are Masonic. Regular people could never get through all the red tape and financial hurdles to create an automobile factory otherwise I'd start one tomorrow and be a billionaire. The top Jews in charge all walked away rich and unaffected to other ventures when the factories closed down. Henry Ford portrayed himself as anti-Jew for subterfuge so people wouldn't suspect Judeo Masonry is actually their government and Big Business combined. It would be droll if the explorers got robbed and killed by the blacks like in Colin Flaherty videos while exploring Detroit. Being white, that's all the reason those blacks would need to attack them.

Hmm, now the canada goose makes sense..

The goose was only used to protect the hockey cards. Not the factory. So I'm gonna tell you why Minnesota is a dope place

We got lakes. We got more shoreline than California's own coast

@@WinDogeFromRU-vid I've heard that state is amazing to check out almost any time of the year. i live in the high desert of Nevada myself, a very different climate!

@@Oldbmwr100rs I was in Southwest Nevada last year. Yeah! It's a whole lot of different! Both impressive in different ways.

....Detroit failed?? Fallen so far?? how, where and when? Where did it fall?

If the government wants to prevent trespassers they should release a bunch of geese! Problem solved!

Wait... that’s illegal

glad there aren't any fbi agents watching this channel haha right? ...right?

*breaking and entering intensifies* At least this trespassing is educational though, they aren't destroying anything, well, anything that wasn't already completely screwed in the first place.