Spare Parts I

The wrought iron staircase for what was the Consumer’s Brewery Brew House, as indicated by very fine cast landings with the company logo. The staircase is in bad condition; someone had run a forklift or something similar into the bottom in addition to copious vandalism and water damage. Holes in the floor, like in the upper-right corner indicate where stainless steel kettles used to be before they were scrapped.

The powerhouse was notably older than the rest of the complex. I’m still not sure if it was build just for the cooperage, or whether it preceded it.

A fallen branch smashed out this skylight years ago, and since then the bees have found this tiny toilet a perfect home. This is part of the hotel where employees slept.

A wrecked pressure gauge and employee time cards.

This little curled yellow thing is one of the last hints that this adobe building was lived in.

Inside the pilot copper concentrator.

One of the old cooperage buildings is largely unchanged from when it was built. The raised section of the building houses a crane.

The woman in the wall has the bed; is pulling it in; is holding you down…

Looking across the catwalk attache to the elevated control room, in charge of the train dumping part of the operation.