[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 60sstuff

WOW, I sure hope someone picked up that last 65 GTO from lube & oil before they demolished the building :-)

I can assure you it made it home safely from there.... a couple times!

(lol)

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by GTOnly70

Very sad.

Doubt they're putting up any new K marts, though. Kmart/Sears is in a death spiral of their own...

Kroger, maybe? We'll have to wait and see.

Originally Posted by The Boss

I'm not 100% positive on this but if I remember the story about this day correctly, I'm pretty sure that's a sunrise.

Correct you are.

That was Father's Day morning. Nobody else was up so me "and my dad" went for a little ride and took some pictures.

Totally spontaneous.

K

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by SR-71

It would have been cool to park cars for pictures it in front of this same door and wall that was still there as of last month.

I don't think I've ever seen that picture before.

Hard to tell from a black and white photo but that might be our car.

K

[SR-71]

I thought about that and would have sent it to you if I knew they were moving on it so fast. Reenacting the picture would have been cool.

[goatwgn]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

At SR-71's suggestion at lunch time today I drove past the old Royal Pontiac location (400 N Main, in Royal Oak Michigan).

I wasn't expecting much change since last time but - alas - it's all gone. Nothing but busted up asphalt, debris and twisted bits of metal.

I recall there was discussion about using that location for a K Mart or a retirement home but I don't know where that landed.

K

Sad news that another piece of our Pontiac history is gone.

[cuz68]

I did not know them, Only what I have read on py. If it helps I hate to see changes of the things I was around when I was a kid. SAD

[Tenney]

Thanks for sharing your pics, Keith - cool you got to do a flyby w/the '65.

[geeteeohguy]

Thanks for sharing, Keith. You are keeping the history alive.

[MikeNoun]

Thank you Keith.

Time marches on....

[Jeff Hamlin]

[QUOTE=MikeNoun;5666820]Thank you Keith.

Time marches on....

and on and on...


Should have pulled some Bricks when you had the chance

[Big Bear]

A couple of years ago it was mentioned that the Royal building days were numbered so while at the Woodward cruise we stopped by for some pictures with the TA (regrettable that our GTO wasn't there) before another piece of history was gone.

[getmygoat]

The lesson I take from this and other experiences in life is that everything is temporary.. the world we know today, our friends, family, house, hobbies, loves, everything, its but a flash. You think people who lived 100 years ago, if they came back today, would recognize any of the things they loved during their lives? Unlikely. Its all gone... Just like everything we know and love will be gone in another 100 years.

Live life for all its worth now, there really is no tomorrow.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by getmygoat

The lesson I take from this and other experiences in life is that everything is temporary.. the world we know today, our friends, family, house, hobbies, loves, everything, its but a flash. You think people who lived 100 years ago, if they came back today, would recognize any of the things they loved during their lives? Unlikely. Its all gone... Just like everything we know and love will be gone in another 100 years.

I agree....

...except for this house. This house seems to have some supernatural ability to withstand the ravages of time.

K

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Big Bear

A couple of years ago it was mentioned that the Royal building days were numbered so while at the Woodward cruise we stopped by for some pictures with the TA (regrettable that our GTO wasn't there) before another piece of history was gone.

Looks like the lube rack was doing some good business these last couple years...



K

[400 4spd.]

Keith, is the '63 artwork by Eric White?

[Wareagle]

Originally Posted by MikeNoun

Thank you Keith.

Time marches on....

Great pic Mike - lots of fast cars - Royal Bobcats etc.

[Terry M. Hunt]

Years ago(1991?) when the GTOAA convention was held in Atlanta, Jim Wangers provided a couple of bricks for the silent auction that he said were from the original Royal Pontiac Building(s). Not sure if these were the result of some remodeling, etc. but they apparently weren't the result of the buildings being demolished, since it looks like Keith's pics show that happening recently. Or maybe the buildings that were just demolished were not the original Royal buildings anyway. They look very different from the vintage photo(at least the showroom does) I don't know what changes the original buildings went through during their life time that might have produced the bricks Jim provided. Anyway, I made sure I wound up with one of these bricks and JW autographed it as "From the original Royal Pontiac", or words to that effect. Don't have it handy now to give the exact wording. Keitlh can you comment on this? Maybe I can have my brick Carbon 14 dated. Hope it wasn't just something Jim found in the hotel parking lot.

[riggsjr]

Wareagle,
Says video is unavailable.

[Wareagle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXP0vIoOjo4

Royal Pontiac

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 400 4spd.

Keith, is the '63 artwork by Eric White?

Yes.

I didn't have any still photos of that car so I commissioned Eric to make a "hero card" based on old home movies and my recollection of the various features.

K