[milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street

[Gary Schnabl]

On 3/19/2011 2:38 PM, Y Marti wrote:
> Gary,
>
> Abel & Bach did downsize by the 1950s and by then had sold off the 
> building you mentioned. They were a big company in the earlier part of 
> the century and had a big factory stretching to St. Paul and also east 
> of 10th Street. The main office was on St. Paul. With the Stock Market 
> Crash they had to sell to Stearns but still kept manufacturing there 
> through the 1950s.
>
> Yance M.
What year was the building razed? Did it just stand there unoccupied for 
a decade or so?

There are hundreds (thousands?) of abandoned factory buildings here 
standing in metro Detroit that have been essentially unoccupied for a 
half century or longer, as the region suburbanized and the newer 
buildings were built on unused semirural land. Some became warehouses, 
but most of them are unused wrecks that have been literally ruined by 
thousands of "scrappers" who steal just about anything of value. Ditto 
for tens of thousands of Detroit houses when their owners are working or 
on vacation or simply abandoned. One scrapper a year ago was found face 
down in an abandoned post-office building next to a deserted railroad 
depot, frozen like a popsicle in ice at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

http://detnews.com/article/20090129/METRO08/901290400/Life-goes-on-around-body-found-frozen-in-vacant-Detroit-warehouse
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.mlive.com/svengustafson/2009/04/large_20090408-ap-detroit-michigan-central-depot-train-station.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.mlive.com/svengustafson/2009/04/in_demanding_michigan_central_depot_demolition_detroit_council_gets_it_right.html&h=300&w=453&sz=42&tbnid=ZoePnqFgB85OtM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmichigan%2Bcentral%2Bdepot%2Bdetroit&zoom=1&q=michigan+central+depot+detroit&usg=__F99inP_uFdSZR_gUoJOC6RaX0Mc=&sa=X&ei=gPqETfycLomatwfa2NTdBA&ved=0CDwQ9QEwBA

Gary


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Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...

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