There are so many pipes i the factory–I wonder how many people knew where they all went, in the days these machines operated at capacity.
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This is what it might have looked like if a new Ford descended in the elevator with its headlights on. As seen from the Mississippi side–the opposite portal faces the sand mine.
A jankey ladder leads to a platform over a wooden tank. Here’s hoping my usage contributes to jankey being accepted into the dictionary! Thanks, lexicographers.
Part of a furnace control panel.
Because painted signs would not hold up in this spot–in between four ovens that were literally hot enough to melt steel inside. Solution: Cut the pipe labels into the sheet metal. Seems to have worked.
A manhole cover sealing Clark House Creek below Superior Street.
One of a few dozen steel bed frames left in the rubble of the collapsing building.
Standing next to the now-demolished records room.
This is part of the oldest section of factory, one that hasn’t had a roof in a long time and all usable equipment has been extracted. The machines pictured would spin sliced beets in boiling water… it was a sealed system before someone cut holes on sides of each unit.
Looking across the ruin-strewn brownfield left from ACME’s operation and demolition.