Power-up to cool down… would have been nice on the hot day I climbed on top of this machine.
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It remains unexplained what ‘serious results’ may stem from not reporting an accident, but when labor was cheap and unorganized I doubt anyone asked.
Holes were cut into the floor to extract equipment from the basements. it was interesting to see the I-beams extending through all the levels of Studebaker.
In what has turned into a kind of industrial courtyard between four ovens some people have posted their tags. X was here.
In the Lime House, the sunset picked-up the last light of day to make this image. Lime is used in the beet sugar refinement process to reduce the acidity of the beet juice mixture.
Solvent pumping buildings, designed to explode upwards rather than outwards in an emergency, are forgotten near the milkweed.
This sign was important when trains ran the length of the elevator.
A Merrill Piano from Boston, in the Recreation Room of the Front Dorm.
“But everyone I used to know was either dead or in prison So I came back to Minneapolis this time I think I’m gonna stay” -Tom Waits
Most of the control panels were faceless. No doubt, they were parted out to keep other sugar mills alive.