Before there was a row of double rooms on the left and a common room on the right. Now, in a way, it is all one big common room.
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Holes were cut into the floor to extract equipment from the basements. it was interesting to see the I-beams extending through all the levels of Studebaker.
Standing atop the dust collector, the factory breaks down into diverging patterns, processes.
This is one of the biggest warps I’ve ever found in a wooden factory floor hasn’t broken yet. When you stand on it, it make a very loud popping sound as the boards shift. The poster on the pillar near the left side of the frame advertises recreational boating, presumably to the factory workers who left this floor in the early 1980s.
I can confirm the existence of the long-rumored Federal Rectangle Research Institute labs.
Hand painted fire extinguisher notices and a long room which I strongly suspect was a pattern cutting room.
Designed by Taylor himself, the spring house was the site of many parties in its day. You can imagine sipping fresh-tapped whiskey here with your Sunday clothes with soft music and the sounds of the river mixing in the background. Note the key-hole-shaped spring hole.
Snow weight collapsed this section of McKee… the newest section. The brick buildings always outlive cheap metal ones.
This section of the production floor was constantly dripping. Someone had laid down giant plastic sheeting to attempt to protect the lower floors, but it hasn’t worked.
Looking out from my perch close to the Kam toward the Ogilvie head house. To the left is a newer concrete annex, probably built in the years it bore the name Saskatchewan Pool 8.