Like a grave marker, a single post remembers where Dock 3 stood on the bay.
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A rusting disconnect gangway. The smokestack is for a boiler, if I recall.
For reasons unknown, this building’s concrete was designed a little thinly. It reminds me of a Chicago, IL building constructed during WWI when concrete and steel were strictly rationed and many buildings went up with insufficient superstructures. I do not have a build date for this one yet.
Looking toward Duluth from the top of a Dock 1 light tower. NP Dock 1 is on the left… an earlier competitor to Allouez. The stars reflect on Lake Superior.
Looking out of the elevators. Canada Malting, Vitera A and Vitera B in the background.
Looking through the washer that is the first stop for the dredgings.
HDR matrix panorama. Looking from the grain elevators, now doomed, toward the city between the flour mill’s water tower and tile elevator’s neon sign, the old and new economies seem almost united. Yet the financial centers rise in reality to shadow the now-abandoned industry and manufacturing. The way of things, I’m told.
35mm Film, Expired. An abandoned swath of NAD is landlocked by soybean fields.
The flour mill (rear) and its elevators. The taller elevator was moved here in 1955, when the Harrisons bought it from Federal, who declared it surplus. The smaller elevator replaced an earlier smaller warehouse in 1926. Taken shortly after dawn. This one picture made the drive worth it, for me. Medium Format.
The stairs that connect the breakwater and light station (Leica M6/Kodak Ektar).