These stairs lead to the balcony.
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The giant cog is missing on this machine, which turned a sugar slurry intro crystals. Green-blue stained glass makes the rusty machine glow in aquamarine.
Like many mill-style buildings of the time, the Twohy’s loading doors (in this case, the delivery wagon doors) opened to an elevator shaft. This design cut down on loading time, as long as the elevator was operational. Of course, if it was otherwise occupied, there could be no traffic through the exterior doors!
East Elevation of the Depot. Ektar 100/Mamiya 6
Peeling paint reveals the room numbers of the past.
An employee lunchroom with every door and window covered in vented steel.
Behind the main shaft is this familiar industrial sight… a running count of days since the last injury.
2006. A section of the third floor that has changed a lot over the years. Compare to 2015 shot.
The grand staircase with little balconies leaning over it. All the stone stairs are broken and graffiti marks every wall.
Many of the higher floors were more or less demolished–usually more. These would have been condos had ‘The Arcade’ project come to fruition. Now there are simply wide open floors punctuated only by pillars and meaningless hallways.