Why the elevator cars were removed or who removed them is unclear to me, but I do hope they still exist somewhere outside of a Honda frame. Judging from the decorations heaped on the doors and their frames, the cars themselves must have been beautiful.
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Scrappers infamously gutted the factory, but this one green conduit going from the sintering floor all the way to ground level seems to have been spared.
The end of one of the scrapped turbines. Judging by the aborted attempt at cutting it in half, the scrappers had some trouble with this one.
The old offices for the Oberon Elevator are defunct, but seem to be holding up to the brutal prairie snows and winds. Medium Format.
I like to think of this as a giant straw, through which the factory is slowly draining the earth, leaving nothing but reinforced concrete below…
One of the oldest buildings had a wide central staircase with well worn steps. They were utilitarian and beautiful.
The bottom of the elevator in the new foundry.
The depot of Ringling is a very lonely looking building and there are many holes in its roof. There are no signs on it whatsoever.
One of the prettier Humphry Manlifts in Minneapolis, in my opinion.
A washout two thirds of the way down the tram gave me a place to relax in the thin air.