In 1902 Olds Motor Works opened a factory in Lansing, MI. Olds manufactured the Oldsmobile automobile there. In 1908, General Motors bought Oldsmobile. The factory, later known as the Lansing Car Assembly plant, closed in 2005 after setting the record as the longest operating automobile factory in the United States. One year after it closed, GM began to demolish the plant. Within another year, the factory was gone.

103 years is a long life for anything. Too bad none of it is left. Now, all that's left are huge tracts of empty land. Most of it is fenced off so you can't see much of the land. But what you can see are massive, dead parking lots and nearby entrance gates where three or four generations of factory workers passed through on their way too and from their monotonous jobs.

I made the trip to Lansing in hopes of seeing better remnants of the old factory. Time was limited, so I couldn't fully explore the city. But, from what little I saw, I was disappointed by the lack of preservation. To be fair, I was only in town for a few hours so there may be some remnants I missed. But my next hunt will be in Detroit, where I fully expect to find plenty of Rust Belt relics to shoot. I don't know when or if I'll return to Lansing again. If YOU know of any great old factories I missed in Lansing, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll continue hunting elsewhere in Michigan.