My mistake. I recall plans of shutting the Rouge and I thought they'd done it. It was a real 1930s dinosaur when I toured it in the 80s. (With a commie autoworker friend/comrade who worked at the time at the now shuttered GM Main Assembly plant in Ypsi, much better guide than the HF Museum staff.) I recall their selling the steel plant, was it originally to the Russians? Maybe it's been updated. They updated GM Main Assembly a lot before they shipped it off to Arlington, TX.
--- John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> > The GM Main plant in Ypsilanti, the Ford River
> Rouge
> > plant, the Chrysler plant in Warren, all gone. Of
> > coursed all those plants in Flint that Michael
> Moore
> > documented in Roger & Me.
>
> River Rouge isn't gone, it's still Ford's largest
> factory. 6000 people
> work there.
> There are 5 plants with the Dearborn Truck facility
> being the largest.
> They sold the steel plant to a Russian firm but it
> too is still there
> staffed by UAW local 600.
> Certainly it isn't as much used at it once was but
> it is still there.
> One can tour the facility with staff from the Henry
> Ford Museum.
> It's the site of the largest "living roof".
>
> Yes, Detroit is a disaster and going through great
> parts of are are like
> visiting a ghost town.
>
> John Thornton
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