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 garlic
Location: Philadelphia
Gender: Male
 |  | Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
< on 1/21/2014 8:10 PM >
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These are all photos I took in an abandoned industrial complex on a crappy iphone camera. I had been meaning to contribute to this community more, so here we go. I hope you all enjoy
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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: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 1 on 1/21/2014 9:21 PM >
| | | | Gotta love Nicetown. (That's really the name of the neighborhood!)
"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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Kurt
    
Location: Taxachusetts
Gender: Male
NEVER SAY DEVER!
| |  | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 2 on 1/21/2014 9:56 PM >
| | | | not to photogenic but one of my favorite hangout spots
"What is your favorite thing about Belchertown?"
"...the history, man" |
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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: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 3 on 1/21/2014 10:02 PM >
| | | | Yup yup.
"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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sleeperspirit
Location: allentown
| | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 4 on 1/21/2014 10:03 PM >
| | | | Nice man! We Stumbled upon this place when we were at the nearby breakfast pastry factory down the street. Did you visit that as well?
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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: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 5 on 1/21/2014 10:07 PM >
| | | | My mom used to work there at Tastycake, bro! Sometimes after school when she was working late I had to take the "R" bus down and meet her there.
"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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garlic
Location: Philadelphia
Gender: Male
| | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 6 on 1/21/2014 10:08 PM >
| | | | Posted by sleeperspirit
Nice man! We Stumbled upon this place when we were at the nearby breakfast pastry factory down the street. Did you visit that as well?
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I haven't made it in there.... Yet
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sleeperspirit
Location: allentown
| | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 7 on 1/21/2014 11:19 PM >
| | | | Nothing special really, what I remember of the place was the smell... Ed did it always smell, umm weird?
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Sevtai
Location: Greece
Gender: Male
28:06:42:16
| | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 8 on 1/21/2014 11:46 PM >
| | | | Nice place. Liked most rooftop photos. The indoors ones were somewhat blurry (maybe the light?).
(Btw it helps numbering the photos too imo. Easier reference ^^)
Thanks for the share.
Denn die Todten reiten schnell. |
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garlic
Location: Philadelphia
Gender: Male
| | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 9 on 1/21/2014 11:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by Sevtai
Nice place. Liked most rooftop photos. The indoors ones were somewhat blurry (maybe the light?).
(Btw it helps numbering the photos too imo. Easier reference ^^)
Thanks for the share.
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These were all taken with my iphone camera, I wanna go back with a better one
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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: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 10 on 1/22/2014 12:00 AM >
| | | | Everything in the bakery was made with live cultures and yeast. It had been baking 24 hours a day, 6 days a week for 88 years until it closed in 2010 and moved to the Navy Yard. The average temperature for the baking ovens was 600 degrees F.
This is the fourth winter for the factory with the interior temperature being under 70 degrees F. The severity in decay with the extreme temperature changes, the age of the building materials and the contents left behind are creating that horrid stench you're experiencing.
It smelled like fresh, sugary bread when it was in full production. A smell I'll never forget.
Mom brought brown paper supermarket bags home full of pies and cupcakes that were one or two days past expiration or had packaging snafus. I remember when Butterscotch Krimpets were wrapped in wax paper and when they switched over to plastic shrink-wrap, Mom said the packaging department's new smell gave her a headache. She was a supply purchaser in the offices there.
Aahh, memories... 
"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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Stina_lou
Gender: Female
| | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 11 on 1/22/2014 12:05 AM >
| | | | methinks it may be time to get my butt to philly soon.
place looks amazing! What a playground!
thanks for sharing.
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G to the Race
 
Hi!
| | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 12 on 1/22/2014 12:08 AM >
| | | | Posted by Radical_Ed
Everything in the bakery was made with live cultures and yeast. It had been baking 24 hours a day, 6 days a week for 88 years until it closed in 2010 and moved to the Navy Yard. The average temperature for the baking ovens was 600 degrees F.
This is the fourth winter for the factory with the interior temperature being under 70 degrees F. The severity in decay with the extreme temperature changes, the age of the building materials and the contents left behind are creating that horrid stench you're experiencing.
It smelled like fresh, sugary bread when it was in full production. A smell I'll never forget.
Mom brought brown paper supermarket bags home full of pies and cupcakes that were one or two days past expiration or had packaging snafus. I remember when Butterscotch Krimpets were wrapped in wax paper and when they switched over to plastic shrink-wrap, Mom said the packaging department's new smell gave her a headache. She was a supply purchaser in the offices there.
Aahh, memories...
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Did the move to new facilities coincide with Tastycake's surge in popularity? I had never heard of it until this past year. Maybe I wasn't paying attention but it seems coincidental to the move.
You betcha |
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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: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 14 on 1/22/2014 12:37 AM >
| | | | Oh, back to the odd smell in there. I almost forgot in addition to the yeast, don't forget about the thousands of pounds of butter and shortening and the thousands of gallons of milk, buttermilk and cream adding to the fragrance!
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The surge in popularity? Nope. That didn't occur, my friend.
Less than a year after receiving 32 million in taxpayer money, borrowing a total of 122 million dollars, building a new factory from the ground-up and moving into a reduced-tax economic zone in the Navy Yard, Tastycake was sold to the Georgia conglomerate Flower Foods for 34 million. The move was so costly, they were facing immediate insolvency and a loss of over 750 jobs. Now Tastycake is owned by a company based in Georgia but because the new factory was built and the new company is responsible for all of the incurred debt, Tastycake will remain in Philadelphia for a long, long time.
"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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sleeperspirit
Location: allentown
| | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 15 on 1/22/2014 2:02 AM >
| | | | I will never forget the smell from that place
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abandonedfreak
Location: Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
| |  |  | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 16 on 1/22/2014 2:02 AM >
| | | | Posted by Radical_Ed
Oh, back to the odd smell in there. I almost forgot in addition to the yeast, don't forget about the thousands of pounds of butter and shortening and the thousands of gallons of milk, buttermilk and cream adding to the fragrance!
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The surge in popularity? Nope. That didn't occur, my friend.
Less than a year after receiving 32 million in taxpayer money, borrowing a total of 122 million dollars, building a new factory from the ground-up and moving into a reduced-tax economic zone in the Navy Yard, Tastycake was sold to the Georgia conglomerate Flower Foods for 34 million. The move was so costly, they were facing immediate insolvency and a loss of over 750 jobs. Now Tastycake is owned by a company based in Georgia but because the new factory was built and the new company is responsible for all of the incurred debt, Tastycake will remain in Philadelphia for a long, long time.
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Gotta love bein too far in the hole to pack up and leave. Good for the locals anyhow
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sleeperspirit
Location: allentown
| | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 17 on 1/22/2014 2:25 AM >
| | | | Im reminded of this place every time I go in my laundry room.
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Harvestman
Location: Somewhere in SORTA/TANK Territory!
Gender: Male
Everything about me has a poker face.
| | | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 18 on 1/22/2014 4:00 AM >
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RADICAL!!
Oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing.
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SDR69
Gender: Male
| | Re: Massive Abandoned Industrial Complex in Allegheny West Neighborhoord of North Philadelphia
<Reply # 19 on 1/22/2014 6:33 AM >
| | | | Really cool location. Thanks for the background story Ed! Great memories. Sad that this is the way of the new world, corporate greed and graft.
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” Ansel Adams |
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