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model line was the last vehicle produced at Lakewood before the plant closed on August 6. At the time of its demolition some years later, Lakewood was a 2,600,000-square-foot (240,000 m) facility.
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plates, changing to 'A' when GM reshuffled their codes for 1953. For 1972, code 'A' Atlanta was now referred to as the Lakewood plant. From 1947 to 2008, Atlanta had a second GM assembly plant called
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from 1929 through 1981. The truck side of the facility lay dormant from that time until it was utilized for frame and trim operations for the
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Initially, Lakewood was referred to as 'Atlanta' and coded as '8' on vehicle
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at various points in its history, and also began assembling Chevrolet and
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beginning in spring 1987. The 1990 model year Caprice
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