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arena olds/pontiac, route 30 hammonton, n.j. been there as long as i can remember. sold farmall tractors there too. not remodeled, still open. a gto and a solstice out front last time i drove by.

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Same Robert Brown that entered the bussiness just after WWII still serves as Pres?? Thats a long time!!!
IT is actually his son that is running the dealership now. Robert Jr.

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I was in Auburn Hills yesterday and snapped a few pics:

This is Auburn Pontiac, formerly Packer Pontiac. Packer moved to this location in the early 70's and changed the name either at that same time or shortly thereafter.

The former location was at Livernois and 7 mile. I'll see if I can get a picture from down there the next time I'm in the area:





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Like Steve B. said, not many buildings of any kind more than 50yrs old in the Phoenix area, but this thread sure brings back the memories of growing up as a "country boy" in Ohio.

My first summer time job was at a Chrysler/Dodge dealer in Geauga County at the intersection of routes 44 and 322 in rural northeast Ohio. It was called Crossroads Auto or Junction Auto or something like that. Wow the memory has faded some since 1978!

At that time I had the impression that it and the gas station kitty-corner were the oldest businesses in the area. Hmm I wonder what it looks like today or if it is still even there... Hopefully the cookie-cutter housing developments and strip malls have not taken over the area like they seem to be doing all over AZ.

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Yes, most of ours are old here in Bristol. We have alot of dealers in the metro area, but I will only refer to the ones in the Bristol area. The local Pontiac-Buick dealer has been there since at least the 60s... maybe longer. I know thats where my old 1972 Buick Electra was bought new in April of 1972. The Oldsmobile dealer is still standing, but its obviously not Olds now... they also sold Volkswagons and now its a VW only dealership. Our Chevy-Cadillac dealership has also been there for years, but the Chevy dealer got a new building about 15 years ago, next to the Cadillac dealer. The local Ford dealership has moved many times across town. The OLD Ford dealership building became a Toyota dealer in about 1999 and the old Toyota building was torn down years ago, which ironically is still a vacant lot that is for sale. The OLD Volvo is now a auto auction building and Volvo dealership was bought by the guy that owns our Ford dealership and moved in the "2nd" Ford dealer building (which was the Nissan dealer in the 70s-80s), then they moved across the street making it the third move of the Ford dealership in 10 years! The "Dodge-Chrysler-Lincoln-Mercury-Jeep" dealer building is old as well. The Kia dealer merged in with the Mitsubishi dealer.... also a old building, but not too old... built in the 80s perhaps? The Honda dealer is fairly old, but received that nation-wide update a couple of years ago... the Nissan dealership is about as old, but still looks "80'ish". It was shared with Mazda, but very recently the Mazda branch got a new state of the art building... very futuristic looking. Suzuki building is also fairly new. The last four are on the same lot, but different buildings... the same man owns Honda-Mazda-Nissan-Suzuki-Cadillac-Chevrolet-Isuzu dealerships. Chevy-Cadillac are across town. The GMC dealer is quite old and is in a part of town all by itself.

Wow, did I just type all of that?

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I just posted this on a different thread, but it is appropriate here, too.

Bob Longpre Pontiac in Monrovia, CA.

Thanks to JohnV for finding this photo.

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Keith, that picture almost looks fake....Its too perfect.

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It is actually a publicity shot for those two "custom" cars sitting out front - so - who knows? Perhaps it was "enhanced"...

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The attached is from UPC - WU2, from another thread.

His notes:

From Brodhead, WI. About 25 miles west of J-ville.

The first shot was in the fall of 1975 at Olin & Ayres Buick/Pontiac, founded in 1934.
Eventually Ayres bought out Olin, and picked up a Chevrolet dealership, and then built a new facility on the edge of town. Ayres just sold this week to some big conglomerate. The end of a 75-year family dealership.

Then:



Now:


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This building is about a mile away from my house, just south of downtown Minneapolis. It was a Chevy dealership back in the 1920s and 1930s (it may have been the first one in town, although I can't say that for sure.) This part of town was where all the dealerships were located back then, nowadays it's pretty rundown as you can see. Note the Chevy bowtie in the building facade.
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There is a place in downtown Des Moines that now sells collector cars and has been an auto dealership of one sort or another for many years. It was originally a Packard dealer.

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This building is about a mile away from my house, just south of downtown Minneapolis. It was a Chevy dealership back in the 1920s and 1930s (it may have been the first one in town, although I can't say that for sure.) This part of town was where all the dealerships were located back then, nowadays it's pretty rundown as you can see. Note the Chevy bowtie in the building facade.
And you know as long as that building stands, the bowtie will be there. Very cool.

Theres a big Chevy dealer in the far north Chicago burbs that moved down the street when they out grew the old one. The old building still stands and was most recently a flower shop. The wrought iron fence that still stands in front of the building has a Chevy bowtie buit in it. The building must be 50 years old or more.

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gtoric posted these on a different thread, but I thought they would be relevant here:

These are pictures of the first Pontiac Retail store in downtown Pontiac Michigan.


















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is that milner in tulsa? looks like it. my dad bought his 68 428 ho bonneville there.

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1968 GTO Markings with "350" designation.....Interesting. !
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I wonder what it looks like today..

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http://ultimategto.com/cgi-bin/showc...c=/pow/pow0239

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i knew that had to be the building. i spent alot of time as a kid and as a young adult going there.

i was able to buy the pontiac letters off of the building when they went out of business. i still have them today.. they are about 6 feet tall each.

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i knew that had to be the building. i spent alot of time as a kid and as a young adult going there.

i was able to buy the pontiac letters off of the building when they went out of business. i still have them today.. they are about 6 feet tall each.
What did you do with 13 six foot letters??

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