I know of this Fruehauf plant because the office building was across the Pontiac Parkway from the first house I lived in.
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Kenneth Childers posted two photos with the comment:
This is a Fruehauf Trailer Corporation building, and part of an industrial complex. It's awning out front is lovely, and the building has great antique charm, but it seems undestined for condos to say the least of it! I didn't show it, but the building is surrounded most of the way round by chain link fencing. The company, based in Detroit, has a wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruehauf_Trailer_Corporation
There's a neat Auto Week article on the company, too:
http://autoweek.com/…/unexpectedly-fascinating-story-frueha…
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Note the second photo in Encyclopedia of Forlorn Places.
Mike Snow posted the quetion: "When did Fruehauf close the Pontiac Street Operations ?"
Carol Young 1987. My dad, Bob Foust, was a boiler operator, and he and another guy whose last name was Jump (I don't recall his first name) kept the plant running after all other workers were let go. I know Dad was 60 when he retired. He literally turned out the lights and locked the door on his last day.
Gene Rau Deister Machine is in there now.
Mike Snow Gene Rau and Midwest Pipe & Steel
Po MacDonald 1986 left town I left in 1983.
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