posted 12-07-2004 08:30 PM         

....flash forward to this past summer....there were about 110 Maxwell automobiles reunited here for a week long celebration like no other....Maxwell owners from all over the world brought their prize automobiles here for a "last hurrah" of sorts....the original plant was purchased by Walter P. Chrysler in the 1920s....last year Chrysler sold the local plant to Metaldyne and the building is currently being razed.........there were suspension parts made at the local plant for every Chrysler product that was ever built....during it's heyday, many thousands of people worked at the plant....there is hardly a family around this area that didn't have some ties to the plant thru the generations, including mine....I even graduated from Walter P. Chrysler High School, Class of 1969....

...the price of progress.....

all week long Maxwells were seen around town, just putting along....very few breakdowns....it was quite a sight....

....the very same corner 93 years later.....