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.
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Looking at the ghost sign from a rust-locked cement conveyor that linked the silos with a packing warehouse.
A fireproof room in the basement, perhaps for ammunition storage at one time.
A heavy steel device locks the anchor up.
A small upper level was accessible via ladder through the hole in this ceiling. Ben for scale.
Go on and jump in, if you want, there’s even a ladder to climb out.
Park Insurance Agency is no longer in business, nor would you be able to dial that phone number.
The bottom of the elevator in the new foundry.
Two steel hoppers supported by counterweights and springs, which were used to weigh incoming grain loads before being deposited in the silos beneath this floor. Garner is another way to say “big measuring tank”, if you were wondering. I fell in love with all the tubes and chutes on this floor.
So much relies on one thing stacked on top of another thing.