St.Louis Plant 1961..ENJOY!!! NM

**Geoff C.** · June 30, 2005, 10:50 PM

Re: St.Louis Plant 1961..ENJOY!!!

I think the Unionized labor of that era was great.

Geoffrey Coenen

**Mike M.** · June 30, 2005, 11:13 PM

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I'd like to have that full trailer in the background.
H. a. N. D.

**Don 42616** · June 30, 2005, 11:13 PM

I guess they didn't leak!! *NM*

**mike cobine** · June 30, 2005, 11:30 PM

GOOD GRIEF!!! They are out in the rain!

Thanks, Joe, great picture.

**Art A.** · June 30, 2005, 11:50 PM

Re: GOOD GRIEF!!! They are out in the rain!

Mike, don't really think it's raining----I think that is a favorite trick of photographers to wet down the surface under the vehicles.

IMHO

Art

**Rob M.** · July 1, 2005, 02:02 AM

Re: St.Louis Plant 1961..ENJOY!!!

Hi JOe,

Do you mind me adding this picture to the 50+ pictures shown on the home page of the C1 Registry ?

greetings,
Rob.

The C1 Registry

**Tom R.** · July 1, 2005, 04:41 AM

Re: St.Louis Plant 1961..ENJOY!!!

I see a trailer of Corvettes in the background. Of course...this can represent only one assembly plant since St Louis was a campus of buildings. Anyone know which one this would represent?

**Joseph T.** · July 1, 2005, 08:07 AM

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Rob

The idea of the post is to share the history..go ahead.

**John H.** · July 1, 2005, 04:09 PM

Re: St.Louis Plant 1961..ENJOY!!!

The Fisher Body and Chevrolet passenger/truck assembly plants were together in one large complex of buildings joined together (the "big" plant, which is what you see in the background), and Corvette was a separate small building in one corner of the property, behind the powerhouse that supported the complex (including the old "shell plant" where they made howitzer shells).

The Corvair trucks (Corvan, Rampside, Greenbrier, etc.) were built manually in a separate line way up on the 7th floor of the main plant - many people didn't even know it was there.

**Michael H.** · July 1, 2005, 04:28 PM

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John,

Corvette bldg was on the corner of Union and Natural Bridge, if I remember correctly??

**Zachary K.** · July 2, 2005, 09:38 AM

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That trailer appaers to be a rail car.

**John H.** · July 4, 2005, 02:37 PM

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The "big plant" was on that corner, and the Mill was behind it, further west along Natural Bridge road.

**Michael H.** · July 4, 2005, 03:13 PM

Plant Aerial Vies

John,

I've been trying to find it in aerial views. Try the link below, see if that looks correct.

http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=10&X=3690&Y=21424&Z=15&W=1

**mike cobine** · July 4, 2005, 05:34 PM

Re: Plant Aerial Vies

Didn't they tear it down? I thought I remember stories of it being demolished.

I don't see the Chevy dealer that was across the street from it. They interestingly received the last Corvette convertible, in 1975, white with red interior. Then Chevy made them again in '86.

I think the L-shaped building should be where it was. The white cross-shaped building is the corner of Natural Bridge and Union.

The big square black building to the upper left is new, I think, and throws this all off.

bigger shot

St.Louis Plant 1961..ENJOY!!! NM