Flint Expatriates: images of auto factories

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Buick From the Air

A 1910 postcard of the Buick plant.

Gerry Godin has a fascinating and well-researched compendium of Buick aerial photographs encompassing more than a century on his All Things Buick blog. The photos function as a timeline of Flint's economic fortunes, illustrating the rise and fall of the auto industry in the city.

The Buick factory complex in 1985.

All Things Buick didn't include this more recent shot by Gerry Godin of an old entrance to the Buick site, but it sums up the demise of the auto industry in Flint.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Placid Beauty of Industrial Power

Gerry Godin at the All Things Buick blog has scans of an entire souvenir booklet called The Trip I Made given to visitors of the Buick plant in the 1920s. It features what has to be the most tranquil rendering of an auto plant ever created. Who knew industrial smokestacks could look so good? It makes Buick look almost environmentally friendly, although one page boasts that 3,720,000 gallons of water were used at the plant every day.

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