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UER Forum > Archived US: Great Lakes > STL: rubber factory (Viewed 269 times) mos6502  Location: St. Louis, Missouri Gender: Male 8 bits are enough.  |  STL: rubber factory < on 5/31/2007 3:26 PM >   There is a factory being torn down near my work, and on lunch last Friday I decided to crawl under the fence and check it out. I arrived just in time, as the last of the workers was leaving and locking up the gate. Since I'd noticed it only a few days prior, I was really surprised when I realized it was being torn down. So for some things, you just can't wait... So I got inside, which really tested my nerves, since this facility is right up against a major traffic artery and I was still trying to make 100% sure there weren't any personnel still on site. There was a huge fenced off area around the entire site and the open areas were filled with random expanses of rubble, so I had to climb over that goodness to get to what was left of the buildings. There was a good portion of the structure remaining. Everything inside was covered in sooty filth. The factory floor was covered in this black stuff and since the lighting was poor it seemed like everything was just... black. Black everything. My crappy key chain flashlight (that I received as a novelty at a concert years ago, I really need that UER model only helped in the darkest of places. All in all there wasn't much remaining inside and it was not picturesque. All of the equipment had been gutted. There was an old IBM 5153 (I think) terminal in an office that I thought was interesting, mainly because I'm infatuated with obsolete computers though. Sorry but there are no photos. I did this on a whim and my camera was at home. I did nab a coffee cup out of the breakroom though, with the company logo on it. The place was going down so I figured what the hell. This place probably won't last but a few more days, so I took the risk. Since it wasn't very pretty, this one was really for the rush. And that it provided. Steam  Gender: Male  |  Re: STL: rubber factory <Reply # 1 on 6/4/2007 4:53 AM >   Sounds like a good time Mr. Kalashnikov  Location: St. Louis Gender: Male  |  |  Re: STL: rubber factory <Reply # 2 on 6/4/2007 2:28 PM >   Yes it does. Didn't even know there was a rubber factory in town. mos6502  Location: St. Louis, Missouri Gender: Male 8 bits are enough.  |  Re: STL: rubber factory <Reply # 3 on 6/4/2007 3:01 PM >   Search Google maps for the intersection of Page and Price, St. Ann. It's the building complex on the southwest corner... I'm amazed, because after looking at this I realized that nearly half of it was already gone by the time I got in, and it was still pretty massive. This was over a week ago now, so I'd bet it's almost completely gone by now if not very close. This may be all that remains. The building was coming down and I didn't have a camera... this was the best I could do to capture the memory: The cup was mostly covered in black soot and oil when I found it. It cleaned up well enough to actually use. mos6502  Location: St. Louis, Missouri Gender: Male 8 bits are enough.  |  Re: STL: rubber factory <Reply # 4 on 6/4/2007 3:21 PM >   A snippet of background on the building can be found here in Overland's city council minutes. Apparently the place closed in 2000 and used to produce inner tubes, and lost a lot of money in property taxes hoping to turn the property into a retail development. You can find the article here: http://overlandmo..../2006/20060213.pdf Hmm. Aside from the mention in the article above about asbestos, this company routinely reported to the EPA. Guess I should invest in one of those P-100 masks, and here's a snip of the EPA stuff: http://oaspub.epa....LS9430P&ban_flag=Y -mos6502 UER Forum > Archived US: Great Lakes > STL: rubber factory (Viewed 269 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 171 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 739201588 pages have been generated.