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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In the women’s restroom.
You can tell from the marks on the wall that there used to be pipes running the length of this square hallway, which connected a loading dock with explosive mixers.
A walk-up service window on the side of an administration building of some sort. I have a feeling the buildings were color coded.
A fallen branch smashed out this skylight years ago, and since then the bees have found this tiny toilet a perfect home. This is part of the hotel where employees slept.
In this photo you see three lives of Lyric: 1.) The Art Deco murals showing the Vaudeville background; 2.) The suspended ceiling put in when the building was converted for film; 3.) The explorers, photographers and others who worked in and on the building before its final demolition.
The floor in this building (now demolished) was very rotten. This picture was taken through a window from very firm ground.
Someone had helped themselves to one of the safety posters before my visit.
The left tunnel goes to the opposite side of the car elevator seen on the right. There was a time when Fords were shipped by barge on the Mississippi. This freight elevator brought them from the assembly floor to river level. A separate elevator was for moving men and silica up and down.
I’ll remember the neon glow fondly.