detroit 1938 hamtramck

35mm motion picture film of 1938 shift change at Dodge assembly plant in Detroit. The building was built for the Dodge Brothers in 1911 and torn down in 1980 to make way for the GM Hamtramck Assembly Plant. This film was shot as part of a docu-drama treatment of an earlier radio broadcast by Federal filmmaker Pare Lorentz and shot by the Academy award winning cinematographer, Floyd Crosby.

[@GMak-oj7gm]

Thank you for posting! The shots of the neighborhood and houses remind me of my neighborhood in Hamtramck as it was in the 50's when growing up. There were still some automobiles on the streets from that era when I was young. Wow, what a blast from the past!!!

[@VirtualVernon]

@7:06 shows the street signs. Its amazing how different Conant and Dwyer street looked back then in Hamtramck, nothing like I was a kid but I wasn't born until 1985. My family was from Hamtracmk, my great grandparents migrated from Poland to Hamtramck in 1918. I grew up 8 blocks north of Dwyer on Hanley.

[@desireepeters7520]

This factory looks like dodge main my grandpa use to work for them, we use to live in hamtramck close to detroit dodge main was behind my house, I would see it every day until they took it down in 1980 , I was 9 years old . thank you for the video pretty cool 👍🏼✝️❤️🇺🇸🙂 please be safe and stay strong God bless you and your family too.

[@VirtualVernon]

@7:06 shows the street signs. Its amazing how different Conant and Dwyer street looked back then in Hamtramck, nothing like I was a kid but I wasn't born until 1985. My family was from Hamtracmk, my great grandparents migrated from Poland to Hamtramck in 1918. I grew up 8 blocks north of Dwyer on Hanley.

[@VirtualVernon]

@7:06 shows the street signs. Its amazing how different Conant and Dwyer street looked back then in Hamtramck, nothing like I was a kid but I wasn't born until 1985. My family was from Hamtracmk, my great grandparents migrated from Poland to Hamtramck in 1918. I grew up 8 blocks north of Dwyer on Hanley.

[@ericwoy4132]

This is used from the film Steel Town, made in Youngstown Ohio.

[@profkaren]

This would have been Dodge Main. Great footage. What is the source?

[@sgreene820]

It's in the collections at the National Archives. historicity.co/blog/

[@VirtualVernon]

@7:06 shows the street signs. Its amazing how different Conant and Dwyer street looked back then in Hamtramck, nothing like I was a kid but I wasn't born until 1985. My family was from Hamtracmk, my great grandparents migrated from Poland to Hamtramck in 1918. I grew up 8 blocks north of Dwyer on Hanley.

[@sgreene820]

@@VirtualVernon Thanks for sharing your recollections those street signs are how I identified the location to begin with!

[@user-rf8tc1er4g]

The first entrance was Warehouse Gate on St. as well as the entrance Bismarck Gate the only employee access to Dodge Main, the Conant entrance is where the employees would take a under ground tunnel to different access point to Main Plant.
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