Ducking the steam lines overhead between the mixers and compressors, a water tower says “good morning,” right past the slack power lines. This is the sleepy uptown of the war city.
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One of the covered rail loading docks. All of them were overgrown and rust-clad.
Trees between duplexes overshadow the buildings they were planted to shield; revenge for the boards on the windows.
A 24-hour clock that reeks of the 1970s. A ladder stenciled “LTV”–the failed steel company that built this dock. There is more, if you look closer.
Many outdoor areas of the plant have become unofficial city dumps. The skeleton doesn’t care.
Below Grand Army Mine is Gold Collar. A ‘collar’ is the braced section around the portal of a mine shaft.
This office, as seen from the power plant, administered the bonded warehouses. There used to be a few more of them, according to old maps and postcards.
The whole smelter ran on gravity… elevating the various raw materials and working with them until at the bottom of the furnace, copper poured out.
Looking toward Old Taylor Distillery from the roof of Old Crow.
It’s a small world… look at it.