Paperwork

i love abandoned places with old files and books and notes. it really gives it an extra spark. it helps a person believe that people once existed to keep whatever place it was alive.

Anything useful or noteworthy in this room?

Correction, I meant the files and papers, not just the room itself n.n;

Faboulous! Rooms with paperwork always makes it feel like everyone just left that morning.....

great photo, but again, why do they just leave everything there, like they all dropped it and just walked away, this is in alot of pictures that I have seen, is this due to clean up charges???? anyone???:-0

Makes you wonder why they were so important to store them , but yet to just walk off & leave them.

Well since Studebaker went out of business I think a long time ago, a non existent company who was bankrupt and no longer producing or manufacturing had no need or want of files and receipts anymore I would venture to guess. Also, even if they had not gone out of business and just closed the plant, it would have taken a lot of money even to move just files out of there. See, it looks like a slew of files...I think that's why any abandoned places will have machinery and tools and (at the time) expensive machinery and files left over because (especially if they were bankrupt), they were too expensive to remove, easier to leave there and not have to deal with every again. Sorry for the run-ons, the Army has kept me up 48 straight hours and now I can't sleep.

how old were these documents? I would think it's possible that they belonged to another of the tenents, but it would be fascinating if they were from the Studebaker days...

I think anything with a Studebaker letter head / stamp would be cool to read.

Looks like someone was havin a bad day...couldnt find that post-it note

Studebaker did not go "bankrupt", they continued making autos in their Canada plant for two more years after closing South Bend plants in 1964.

I would LOVE to go through all of those files. Has to be some amazing piece of automotive history in there.

Assumptions... assumptions... assumptions. As has been stated numerous times, these buildings were used by other companies after Studebaker left. These files could be from any of those companies. My family owned a large five story warehouse not far from this plant and each floor of that warehouse had been used for a multitude of things over the years. On one floor, I recall it being converted to offices at some point and an insurance company left tons of papers and files behind. I used to dig around in the musty files and get the creeps. It just seems like so much busy work down the drain. Basically, for our lifetime, our information and related files are important. For the most part, all of that stuff is like dirt once we kick the bucket. Then, everything of materialistic and monetary importance is scraped up by the vultures (family and anyone else wanting a piece) and the rest is left like these files or dumped off at Goodwill or a garage sale. So tragic... boohoo...

"Attention, clean up in aisle four please"

Many of those files were left behind by Allied Products Corporation. Others were probably left behind by a company by the name of EWI. Allied acquired the stamping plant from Studebaker in 1963. Allied operated the plant as South Bend Stamping until 1991 when it sold the stamping business to EWI. Allied continued to own the building housing the stamping equipment as well as a couple other former Studebaker buildings. EWI went bankrupt in the mid 1990's. Allied stored records at the facility until it went bankrupt and turned the buildings it owned over to the City of South Bend.

My grandfather, Otis Richard, founded Richard Brothers Tool and DIe and Allied Products Corporation in Michigan in 1928. I would love to go through the plants and look at the allied products reports. My family has not been involved with Allied since my grandfather's death in a car accident in Michigan and then the company went public. I toured the last large Richard Brothers plant in Hillsdale that shut down in 1993 with 300 employees.

old files and books and notes are usually a very interesting thing to get to in most abandoned factories, offices, whatever. It gives you a better idea of how they operated and what they did there.

Old schematics of AUTO'S are desireable for framing by many collectors.

I love these pictures and would love to go through anything I could find in here. Im directly related to the founders of the Studebaker corporation and anything I could find on my family history would be awesome. Plus this place just looks fascinating.

History Lost, Forever, you can not ever get these files back, once they are lost, no matter what company it was that left them.
Motts, your photography has opened up a whole new thought process for my own photos. Thank you.

This is so cool....but yet why would they just leave everything in such disarray?

I would love to read how much everything cost and stuff like that, nothing like what it would be like now!

Did you now him at Allied? He was my fathe
Reply to: lois@ruffber,irg,
Thank you.....r.

I always liked the shots with old books, papers, etc. :)

This is where old-school identity thieves go to steal personal info... you know - for when that high-falootin' Internet thing just gets too complicated.

They take all the personal information down on their typewriter.