One of the many small treasures hiding in the mill…
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Between the gauges for the power plant boilers and the steam pump flywheels.
Park Insurance Agency is no longer in business, nor would you be able to dial that phone number.
Behind the factory was an old truck, blocked in by overgrown trees on one side and the buildings on the other.
The bits with handles are the filters with screens of different sizes. Larger grain particles would be stopped at the top for further reduction via the mills, while the powder at the bottom would be run through another bolter–one of the refinement stages in flour production.
When the Mitchell project is complete, I’ll miss the textures on the face of the boiler.
While the building looks uniform on the outside, inside it’s clearly divided between a hoist room and shaft room (seen here).
The side of the main elevator, severed by “Woodchucks”.
Before developers saw to cut and cut the flour mills inside Pillsbury, they stood at the ready beside various purposeful chutes the traversed the floors of between sorters. These machines were belt-driven by the power of Pillsbury’s Mississippi headraces and turbines, the force of which notoriously shook the building’s foundations themselves. The wheels would change the grade of the flour, or the size of the dust produced from crushing the kernels.
Someone’s abandoned to-do list.