Patented in 1965 and produced by Specialized Mass Markets. User would insert token and use a rotary-phone-style dial to enter their token number. The machine would tally the numbers and indicate winners depending on the sum of said numbers. See USPTO US3455557.
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The aerial tram at the Mayflower Mill gives a sense of what the Gold Prince Mill in Animas Forks once looked like. Trams connected the mill to the mines around it without the need to negotiate trees, rivers, and rough terrain.
The gold mine is now a gravel pit.
Installed in 1904 at the center of the plant, this is one of two batteries of boilers. Being in Oshkosh, heat was very important to keeping labor moving in the cold months.
One of the early automated painting booths in the paint plant line.
Part of a series I am shooting of patriotic Americana left in abandoned factories.
Beside the shaft building are two fans on skids, indicating they were used underground.
I believe this is the push car, meaning it would push the charge in the oven out the opposite side into the train car.
One of the principal businesses in McConnell was a farm implement and lumber store. This is too new to have been bought there, but I like that it’s still on the edge of town. It’s more comfortable than the emptiness beyond, that used to be a little prairie town.
A huge steam pipe snakes between catwalks, through the floors, and toward the condensers, so the water could be recovered and reused.