I couldn’t help but include this ghost sign for a demolished motel…
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This load of lime seems to have been left right where it was loaded.
This might have been part of the Pioneer Pellet Plant. It looks to be a ball mill, which pulverizes ore by spinning it with thousands of ball bearings.
The great stenciled number on this chute caught my eye.
From Main Street, looking straight up at the A Mill, only the silence makes one think that nobody’s still inside, grinding grain into Pillsbury’s Best.
The two antennae are retracted–the position they would be in if the base was under attack.
“Ballistite is a smokeless propellant made from two high explosives, nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine. It was developed and patented by Alfred Nobel in the late 19th century.” -Wikipedia.
A sign on the corner of a laboratory remembers.
Where workers would sign documents and collect their pay.
The approach to the dock is rigidly geometric. I always thought its outline was beautiful against the lake that, by contrast, was always moving.