BuckyB93 wrote:Dearborn Michigan....
Worked at a place that had a big contract with GM back in the day. Visited one of their plants in Dearborn. We were trying to do some testing on honing cylinders of their engine blocks. It was my first exposure to the UAW. Needless to say, we didn't get much work done. The union guys were not interested in doing any testing since sitting back at reading the newspaper was more important than firing up the machines to run any tests. Now that I think of it, it might not have been GM. I think it was Detroit Diesel (are they part of GM?).
Also visited one of their plants in Ypsilanti, MI that made transmissions. Franking place was huge. They made B-24 Liberators at that plant back in the WWII days. It was one loooong straight building... over a mile long. In the office area that overlooked the manufacturing floor below, the main hallway was long, straight and unobstructed. You could look down the hall and just see the the hallway narrow and come to a point at the other end. Was kinda trippy.
Now, where were we? Oh yeah. Pelosi retiring to FL. Who the frank cares? If it were up to me, most politicians would be fed to the sharks... that have laser beams attached to their heads.
Grew up in metro Detroit and even 50 years ago Dearborn was considered "sketchy". One kid at Sunday school lived there and even then we knew that was "weird" for a Jewish family.
The Ypsilanti factory is known as Willow Run, and is located on an old local airport. My dad used to build a lot of homes in that area (Bellville) and was involved with efforts to renew/grow the airport like 65-70 years ago. But, I recall that it was a Ford plant while I was growing up, not a GM plant. Looks like my memory is wrong and that it was indeed GM.
