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 mikeandike
 
 |  | Foundry Casting Left To Rust
< on 11/24/2013 5:01 AM >
|  | | | Opened sometime in 1905 this plant represented the state-of-the-art in foundry technology. New techniques were developed here enabling the plant to reliably cast molten metal into parts and tools needed by factories, railroads and shipbuilders across the United States.
By WWII, the company was producing such high-quality products for defense work that the plant and it's employees won the coveted U.S. Navy maritime “M” award for excellence.
After the war the business was purchased in the conglomerate boom of the 50's and 60's. The disconnect between leadership and the rank and file of the company led to a slow downward spiral. As the plant slowly began to decline it's once cutting edge foundry work began to be overshadowed by other plants.
In 1984 the plant was closed. It sat dormant until 1995 when the nearby neighborhood used it to incinerate parts of houses that were being demolished nearby. It has been completely abandoned since that time.
I would have taken more pictures, but it started snowing and I was not prepared for that. I think I will have to return soon though. The level of decay is beautiful.
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More flicks from visit round 2. Only had my 11-16mm but whatever.
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Radical_Ed
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gender: Male
"You work your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live!"
| | Re: Foundry Casting Left To Rust
<Reply # 1 on 11/24/2013 3:20 PM >
| | | | Three and five are the schizz, right here!
"Are you happy now with all the choices you've made?" "Are there times in life when you know you should've stayed?"
"Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?" "Winners and losers... which one will you be today?"
***Social Distortion*** |
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mikeandike
| | Re: Foundry Casting Left To Rust
<Reply # 2 on 11/25/2013 1:23 PM >
| | | | Posted by Radical_Ed
Three and five are the schizz, right here!
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Thanks dude.
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MoreThanJake
Gender: Male
| | Re: Foundry Casting Left To Rust
<Reply # 3 on 11/25/2013 2:05 PM >
| | | | Love this photo set. NICE WORK!
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Send4Help
   
Location: A biology lab far, far away...
Gender: Male
No time for the old in-out, love.
| | Re: Foundry Casting Left To Rust
<Reply # 4 on 11/25/2013 4:46 PM >
| | | | Great set and location, keep them coming! I liked #4 the best.
The Durango '95 purred away a real horrowshow - a nice, warm vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts. And soon it was trees and dark, my brothers, with real country dark. |
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Skye_Ann
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Gender: Female
I seem to have Irritable Owl Syndrome...
| |  | Re: Foundry Casting Left To Rust
<Reply # 5 on 11/25/2013 10:45 PM >
| | | | Foundrys are cool, my local one was just demolished. 
Nice photos <3
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mikeandike
| | Re: Foundry Casting Left To Rust
<Reply # 7 on 11/26/2013 12:18 AM >
| | | | Posted by Skye_Ann
Foundrys are cool, my local one was just demolished.
Nice photos <3
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Bummer. This one doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.
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mikeandike
| | Re: Foundry Casting Left To Rust
<Reply # 8 on 11/26/2013 12:27 AM >
| | | | Forgot this one.
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WEKurtz
  
Location: Western MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Foundry Casting Left To Rust
<Reply # 9 on 11/26/2013 11:35 AM >
| | | | Awesome site, well shot...love the file cabinets.
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TacitBlue83
Location: Pennsyltucky!
Gender: Male
| | Re: Foundry Casting Left To Rust
<Reply # 10 on 12/2/2013 5:04 AM >
| | | | oh YEAH!!! i love the wide angle shots and the open bay. nice color contrasts. I like it all. I would love to get some info on this place to see if it's close to me. might need to PM ya or something. I love it when the earth grows indoors like that.
show me your peeling paint and I will love you forever |
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