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1953 Packard Patrician near former administration building on north side of East Grand Boulevard.
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Packard Patrician on the boulevard of broken dreams.
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Cormorant hood ornament on 1953 Packard Patrician.
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Debris at this section of complex, north of East Grand Boulevard, has been cleaned up for photo shoots.
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Author's grandfather Frank Jakee worked in the purchasing department, located in Packard administration building in the background.
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Cruel irony: Sign speaks of 'Revitalizing the Packard Plant.'
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Plans have come and gone for salvaging part of Packard complex.
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Administration building in background behind 1953 Packard Patrician.
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Henry Ford was designing world-changing Model T here at Piquette Avenue plant while Packard was dominating U.S. luxury car market.
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Packards shuttled a lot of passengers to and from Michigan Central train station in Detroit's Corktown.
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This rolling sculpture perhaps belongs in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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1953 Packard Patrician on Corktown's cobblestone streets.
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Detroit's Corktown neighborhood predated Packard by nearly 70 years.
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Inline 8-cyl. under hood of 1953 Packard Patrician roars like a tiger.
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1953 Packard Patrician in front of historic Hecker-Smiley Mansion on Woodward Ave.
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Selfie with Jake at the plant that built him.
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Pure Detroit.
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