And the workers at Willow Run seem obsessed with the winter of 1989, when everything began to go wrong.

Of the 2,400 people once employed at Willow Run, about 200 are left in jobs maintaining the plant.

The transmission plant next door to Willow Run employs 5,500 people.

In 1956 there were seven commercial passenger carriers operating out of Willow Run.

"Willow Run was a very cooperative plant," he said.

At its peak, Willow Run produced 650 B-24s per month.

This part of Willow Run was known as "the Village."

Before Willow Run, she did work two jobs, pumping gas and ringing up groceries.

"He just hit an assembly plant over near Willow Run!"

Willow Run will shut down sometime in 1993.