Furnace

These copulas made the iron for casting.

Blending the explosive ingredients was dangerous. It is no wonder that the blending house had so many emergency slides.

Debating immigrants.

Left: A medium storage chamber with access to an interconnecting steam tunnel at ceiling height. This room also has various smashed toilets. Why? Because dead toilets–all of them–always find a home in a cave. Center: Steps go past a +-intersection, left goes deeper, right goes to utility tunnels for the brewery, forward used to go to the brewery basement… it’s now backfilled. Left from the backfill is a small hallway; see ‘Backfill Self Portrait’. Center-Right: Utility tunnels tie knots between the brewery’s demolished basement and its caves. Right: Most of the storage volume is in large chambers down this causeway.

The neon lighthouse, seen from the top of one of the silos.

When the factory’s production line was up for auction, many parts were removed, crated and labeled with big painted numbers to ease their removal by buyers. Not everything sold, however, so not one dark corner of the factory seems without a pile of dislocated industrial junk.

Part of the Pillsbury tunnel that brought water back to the Mississippi River.

Without a roof, the bricks were being washed away in the later years of the roundhouse.

The original color of the wall was probably green.