In the corner of most of the factory floors, freight elevators flanked restrooms to leave more central space for machines and their masters.
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“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
One level below where the cotton was nitrated, the fumes must have been powerful. This floor had several massive ventilation fans in its walls.
From the 1909 addition, it’s obvious how much water it takes to carry a single wall to, into and through the cracks between the floor tiles: exactly one roof’s worth.
Between the gauges for the power plant boilers and the steam pump flywheels.
Rubber dock boots still sits under the desk in the dock office, near keys to rusted locks and files of fired employees.
In the days before a centralized fire alarm system, coded whistle blasts would warn when and where a fire broke out.