Sunday Shoes

Offices above the labs. Note all the air handling equipment. I love the utilitarian design.

Taken from the most forward part of the windlass room to show how the front of the ship opens up from the front wedge. Note the giant anchor chains and foam strapped to the frontmost beam.

I wish I knew what has become of this great one-of-a-kind sign that used to brag how many days the Clyde Iron factory has gone without a serious accident. Update: It’s hanging in one of the smaller venue spaces behind the bar.

A staircase leads behind three of the dock chutes, seemingly to nowhere. The lower on the left held one end of a string of lights above the dock.

Employee lockers near the stage, Service Building.

An experimental shaft dug in the 1950s and its Hoist House.

Blast Furnace 7 as seen from the ore yard. Imagine running up those stairs through blast furnace smoke.

I get dirty.

A carefully kept journal of the ballast levels in the final years that the Ford sailed Lake Superior.