A self portrait, from the early 2000s.
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Without their walls these Solvent Recovery Line buildings look like blast walls. Their concrete inner structures were part of the design so if there was an explosion inside it would ‘blow out’ with a puff instead of a bang. Now most of these are demolished or overgrown.
She’s a charmer.
Ultimately, it was the bad roof that doomed these buildings.
Cracked gauges have a certain quality that hearkens to movies, I think. One can imagine the gauges going off the scales before dramatically cracking, throwing glass right at the camera. This damage, however, is unfortunate vandalism.
Devan setting up his 4×5 camera.
A hole in one of the boards casts the inverse image of a tree outside across a peeling sanatorium wall.
A white star marks the landing between the Keeper’s Quarters (Second Floor) and the radiobeacon and furnace rooms (First Floor).
A side view of the oven pusher from the ground. The tallest coal bunker looks tiny in the distance, though on the scale of the factory it’s practically on top of me as I’m taking the picture.
This is the former air compressor house–one of them, at least–which turned steam power into air power to drive machinery across the production line.