“GREETING FROM BEAUTIFUL GARY–WISH YOU WERE HERE!” My postcard shot.
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Different colors stained the small panes on the top floor. For once, it seemed more ridiculous to not be inside an abandoned factory.
Heavy industrial looks good in cotton candy pink.
A sign facing the city on an exterior wall–a sort of motivational poster.
One of the machines left over in the underground magnetic separation plant.
The small door leads to the offices, the large door leads to the shop. My back at this time is to the corrugated steel wall. At the time I wondered why there was just one steel wall, not knowing that 40 years before there was another spot for an engine here. This section of the roundhouse has become a sort of town dump–car seats, cans of paint and tires are piled into its corners.
Sunrise in the orphanage… between classrooms and whispers.
A circular common room in one of the original parts of the hospital. When the asylum was especially crowded, this would be filled with patient beds, too. It’s very strange that this floor was not tiled like the other common rooms. It makes me wonder if especially dangerous patients were kept in this ward; those who could not be trusted to not extract and sharpen the ceramic tiles. Portra 160.
I am not sure, but I think this section was a storehouse; it has two ramps that connect the rail yard outside and the blacksmith shop. On all of the historic doors that face that part of the yard, signs caution workers to look out for cars…
This was taken before the top of the docks really started to rot-out; now this stretch past the crane is distinctly unsafe to cross. Still, you can’t beat the view of Dock #2 winding into the distance, where the approach is chopped-off before the yard used to extend.