Building #12 was constructed on newly leveled ground where Irish Hill once stood. It was used for the cutting and forming of steel plate for ship hulls.
I was over in another building in the complex which is nowadays occupied by artists for their studios. We were leaving there and saw lots of old cars arriving for an impromptu car show and decided to go take a look. The show was about 30 old cars with lots of hydraulic action with the wheels, and then a bunch of real old 30's and 40's cars. This building was open, but people were supposed to stay out and they had guys patrolling around keeping people checking out the car show which was all outside in a big empty car lot.
Entry into these buildings is always interesting, but almost never possible, so I took advantage of an opportunity when the guards were sitting down fooling with their phones and snoozing, and walked right in and took pictures. I was inside for about 5 minutes clicking away when they spotted me and told me I couldn't be in there - the insurance wouldn't cover me should I get hurt, etc. etc. So, I left, chatting with them about the big old buildings and how I liked to take pics of them when occasionally one allowed some access, and especially this one which was huge and had actually NO PEOPLE in it. I said, "My boss shiniestu sent me to snap these while I had a chance." they said yeah, right, and then we were outside again.
The overlong building had a line of central steel columns dividing it into two long, wide bays, about four stories high. Running along the sides of the two bays about 30 feet up, were the tracks for the overhead cranes. The cranes were no longer there and had probably been sold a long time ago.
My friend was interested in the cars so she had gone around shooting them, while I wandered around fascinated by the buildings. It's hard to imagine the bustling noisy action and all the lives of the working people that used to toil there 60 and 70 years ago while standing in the vas,t quiet and empty, dark spaces now remaining.
There's a part of me that thinks about Ancient Rome, the Forum, the Colosseum, when standing, surveying these abandoned structures which display hardly even a trace of why they were built, what they may have been used for, why they are there now, and whether new use will ever be thought of for them. The building and surrounding structures are the empty shells of what we were once, a long time ago. It's exciting to wander around in these places and look for clues of something, try and relate to them in my life's experience. I feel like I'm sort of searching for something going to places like this.
Ah hahaha. Your boss Shinsetsu. lol That made me laugh. But now your remark about the Colosseum makes me imagine lions and bears and gladiators in there. Maybe even Charlton Heston (that was the place, wasn't it?)
You said you were clicking away, so where are these other pictures, hmm? Don't make me dock your pay, Duccio!
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Date: 2015-10-01 04:09 pm (UTC)Entry into these buildings is always interesting, but almost never possible, so I took advantage of an opportunity when the guards were sitting down fooling with their phones and snoozing, and walked right in and took pictures. I was inside for about 5 minutes clicking away when they spotted me and told me I couldn't be in there - the insurance wouldn't cover me should I get hurt, etc. etc. So, I left, chatting with them about the big old buildings and how I liked to take pics of them when occasionally one allowed some access, and especially this one which was huge and had actually NO PEOPLE in it. I said, "My boss shiniestu sent me to snap these while I had a chance." they said yeah, right, and then we were outside again.
The overlong building had a line of central steel columns dividing it into two long, wide bays, about four stories high. Running along the sides of the two bays about 30 feet up, were the tracks for the overhead cranes. The cranes were no longer there and had probably been sold a long time ago.
My friend was interested in the cars so she had gone around shooting them, while I wandered around fascinated by the buildings. It's hard to imagine the bustling noisy action and all the lives of the working people that used to toil there 60 and 70 years ago while standing in the vas,t quiet and empty, dark spaces now remaining.
There's a part of me that thinks about Ancient Rome, the Forum, the Colosseum, when standing, surveying these abandoned structures which display hardly even a trace of why they were built, what they may have been used for, why they are there now, and whether new use will ever be thought of for them. The building and surrounding structures are the empty shells of what we were once, a long time ago. It's exciting to wander around in these places and look for clues of something, try and relate to them in my life's experience. I feel like I'm sort of searching for something going to places like this.
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You said you were clicking away, so where are these other pictures, hmm? Don't make me dock your pay, Duccio!