Kurth bears a ghost sign. Recently, its main sign was destroyed by graffiti artists in 2015.
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Behind a nurse’s station.
Standing where the Final Assembly Building used to hum and staring across the former site of the Sheet Metal and Spring buildings. Today, of course, the Foundry is gone as well, so you’d be looking across Prairie Ave.
HDR matrix panorama. Looking from the grain elevators, now doomed, toward the city between the flour mill’s water tower and tile elevator’s neon sign, the old and new economies seem almost united. Yet the financial centers rise in reality to shadow the now-abandoned industry and manufacturing. The way of things, I’m told.
Many outdoor areas of the plant have become unofficial city dumps. The skeleton doesn’t care.
Lit by the glow of St. Paul’s West Seventh bars, highlighted by the cool blue of the sleepy section of South Side. This castle-like tower can be seen for miles around town; a Landmark at the brewery that brewed a brew by the that name.
The old truck scale sits in the middle of what was Nettleton Avenue Slip.
A self portrait, from the early 2000s.
The back of the neon sign before it was converted to LED lighting. The image is mirrored so it can be read.
Zachary Taylor’s very own Scottish castle, spring-side in the Kentucky backcountry. Boarded and waiting, but in surprisingly good condition, considering the decades. I especially love the tower on the right side of the frame.