The sign that greets visitors to the ghost town of Colmor. Nothing says ‘welcome’ like birdshot.
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General Mills bought Consolidated Elevator’s “D” in 1943 and renamed it “A,” though no additional elevators have followed from that firm to date. Visible on the right is the first annex, built along with the elevator in 1909.
“Against the blue sky, its rusting central silos look like rising smoke meeting the last minutes of a sunset. These give way to a corrugated night sky of blue gray, punched-through with staggered four-pane windows, all glassless.”
A big door into the fire pump room.
The main stage and the retired (and in this instance, scrambled) marquee that will be repaired and reinstalled above Superior Street. A former manager of the building I used to photograph Nopeming with told me that the letters for the Art Deco tower are stored somewhere in the NorShor to this day, but I did not see them (and frankly, I doubt it).
The bottom of the elevator in the new foundry.
Hiking into the ghost town with enough gear to live there for a few days, if we wanted.
If it wasn’t for the humming and crackling of the wires, I could believe I had arrived to a post apocalyptic landscape.
An orphan culvert and camper, both tossed aside where nobody that will see will care.
Looking out of the brewhouse toward the river.