Before & after vehicles and locations

I'd say at least three minutes.

 

Photoshop time, judging by the unchanged background

 

What's it look like now?

 

...and this?

 

Hard to tell. So much is so new, it's hard to see where this actually is, as there are so many new, large buildings.

 

It's a diorama. I doubt Photoshop was employed. The artist takes scale models and places them in real locations. With the magic of forced perspective it looks like the models are the same size/scale as their setting. So the first photo is just the setting. The second is the setting plus the models. Both photos were taken on the same day, likely within minutes of each other.

 

You can read more about it here: https://petapixel.com/2013/10/14/li...t-using-model-cars-forced-perspective-250-ps/

 

As-Found in 2007


And now 2019 (well late 2018 in this pic)


Still love it!

 

Sad news out of Detroit this week, on Sat we received around 12" of snow followed by a quick thaw on Sunday, it was to much for the Old Packard Assembly plants overhead bridge that was used to move car bodies from the body shop to the assembly plant. It was also a pedestrian walkway. The 1st picture taken in the early 1950's, the 2nd taken in 2015, the 3rd & 4ht on Monday.

 

I saw a news clip regarding this event. It is sad indeed.
I know it's a long shot that the plant will be saved, but I have been encouraged over the past few years by the work that has been done on this sight. Unfortunately in the case of the bridge it was too little too late.

 

Man, it just crumbled.

 

Yeah. Looks like a ship wreck decaying on the sea bottom.

 

It was reinforced Concrete with some brickwork, the entire complex is not to far from doing the same. It looks like they may be able to save around 15% of the remaining buildings, but mostly the smaller out buildings, not the main assembly hall or the body shop.
Unfortunatly I think the preservation effert started about 25 years to late. Here is a shot showing the bodies being delivered via the bridge

 

Yeah, it really is too bad.
At least FORD bought the Michigan Central Station. I think they got to it before it went over the edge.

 

As much as I hate to admit it ‎Matty Moroun probably ended up saving the Train Station, after doing nothing with it for the 1st 10 or so years he owned it, he did fix the roof, install new windows, clean up the grounds, and ad security. Before Ford bought it.
Hard to find Pictures showing just how Grand Michigan Central Station used to be. Before it was abandoned in 1986 and left to the scrappers. All you have to do is watch Batman vs Superman to see how bad it was 5 years ago. As the fight scenes were filmed there.
Still in use in the 1970's

Long abandoned with holes in the roof, almost no windows, but security added



And the condition it was in when it was announced Ford had purchased the site for autonomous car development,