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 mikeandike
 
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< on 12/13/2013 10:33 PM >
|  | | | Southwestern Pennsylvania was once home to many neighborhood breweries where loyalty to a specific beer was often defined by where you lived. Among those breweries was this site built in 1907. The operation terminated alcohol production during the prohibition in 1920, and shifted to de-alcoholized beer. Upon the repeal of prohibition in 1933, the brewery moved back into alcohol and grew to a production capacity of 100,000 barrels of beer per year.
In 1940, the company was slammed with fraud charges from some illegitimate operations during the prohibition on the part of the companies owner. The was placed into receivership and was declared bankrupt in 1941. Another company took over the property less than a month after the bankruptcy and continued beer production. In 1957 the company shifted it's operation to a different plant and sold the brewery complex to a corporation that manufactured artificial trees, gift wrap, and ribbons.
In June 1966, new equipment costing $100,000 was installed and an additional 200 employees were hired. Additionally, land was purchased in a nearby town for a 780,000 square-foot plant that was completed in early 1967, and about 75% of its equipment and inventory from the former plant was relocated to the new facility. The former brewery turned gift wrap manufacturing plant was shuttered in the mid-1970s.
The upper floors of the six story facility are entirely empty. If I weren't educated on the history of the place I would have never known it was a brewery at one time.
The bottom floor of the property housed many interesting items including a large amount of broken computers, a massive room filled with cardboard boxes, and even a 'Big Boy' sign.
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dammband
     
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1 on 12/14/2013 12:04 AM >
| | | | Great Photos!
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Stina_lou
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 2 on 12/14/2013 4:54 PM >
| | | | really nice set!
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mikeandike
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<Reply # 3 on 12/16/2013 1:09 AM >
| | | | Posted by Stina_lou
really nice set!
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Posted by dammband
Great Photos!
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Thanks
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xtacyturbo
Location: Pittsburgh
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 4 on 12/23/2013 3:14 PM >
| | | | This place is so plain yet for some reason I absolutely love going there.
Did you go all the way up to the top?
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mikeandike
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<Reply # 5 on 12/27/2013 4:39 PM >
| | | | Posted by xtacyturbo
This place is so plain yet for some reason I absolutely love going there.
Did you go all the way up to the top?
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As far as we could yes. That elevator door in the one room was awesome
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xtacyturbo
Location: Pittsburgh
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 6 on 12/28/2013 12:57 AM >
| | | | It's actually possible to get all the way up, but the last couple flights of stairs are really treacherous. There's a dark empty room with nothing in it, another room with the ceiling on the floor and the shattered remains of a bathroom, and then all the way up top is a room where the walls are completely missing, and there's an inlay of Ft. Duquesne on what once was the floor. There's also the "brewmaster's room" which isn't anything super fancy but looks a little nicer than the rest of the place, and the hallway leading into it has a super awesome door with 3 round windows in it.
Brewmaster's room:
01a by SKuhnphoto, on Flickr
Room with missing walls:
02a by SKuhnphoto, on Flickr
Sadly I don't have any photos of the sweet ass door.
Love this place. Going back in spring once the ice melts- the top flight of stairs becomes a slip n slide in winter.
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mikeandike
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<Reply # 7 on 12/28/2013 7:41 PM >
| | | | Posted by xtacyturbo
It's actually possible to get all the way up, but the last couple flights of stairs are really treacherous. There's a dark empty room with nothing in it, another room with the ceiling on the floor and the shattered remains of a bathroom, and then all the way up top is a room where the walls are completely missing, and there's an inlay of Ft. Duquesne on what once was the floor. There's also the "brewmaster's room" which isn't anything super fancy but looks a little nicer than the rest of the place, and the hallway leading into it has a super awesome door with 3 round windows in it.
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We went up to the room with the ceiling on the floor. I poked around that floor, but I had left the camera gear on the floor below. I do remember the stairs above that looking pretty dangerous. That brewmaster room looks cool though. I would have liked to make it up there.
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