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 Il_Baffo
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Male
 |  | Abandoned steel foundry (Plaquemine, Louisiana)
< on 7/11/2011 9:28 PM >
|  | | | So these are the steel foundry pictures I've been taking forever to upload. My friend (KodiakJack) has relatives in Plaquemine so we went over to check out the abandoned steel foundry.
Plaquemine is a really old Civil-War era city in Louisiana right by the Mississippi River levee. We asked my friend's grandpa about the foundry and he said that when his dad worked there in the 1940's they gave him a 75th anniversary mug.
So we went to check it out and it ended up being pretty interesting: typical large abandoned warehouse with random tools and steel things lying about, mud on the floor, clear sign of hobo usage. The interesting thing was that half of the premises are now being used to store Mardi Gras floats (which apparently are used in the New Orleans parades). So we walked around and took some shots of all that.
Sorry in advance for my not so great photography...
1. This is a typical house in Plaquemine (just to give you an idea of how old most of the stuff here is)
2. From the time we entered the buildings until we left we saw piles of junk like this everywhere
3. What do you know, a random run-down firetruck
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8. This is when we started seeing the Mardi Gras floats
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11. I opened one from the back and climbed in.
12. The view of the other floats from on top of one
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14. Kodiak Jack
15. This picture randomly turned out wayyyyy granier than usual... *shrug*
16. Outside working our way from one warehouse to the next. The entire thing is a complex of several warehouses. Only one was locked with heavy chains...the rest were wide open.
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18. More junk
19. A couple more Mardi Gras floats
20. There were large sand silos on the premises and other warehouses that were mostly empty
21. Ooh, a ladder! Let's climb it!
22. View from on top of the ladder 1
23. View from on top of the ladder 1
24. Old machinery 1
25. Old machinery 2
26. Old pallets
27. Looks like it used to be an office building in the foundry
28. Inside what I assumed was the old office
29. I climbed another ladder inside to get a top shot of one of the warehouses
30. The view from outside
31. There's some construction going on right next door.
32. I saved this random Elvis float for last because it's my favorite 
That is all, hope you enjoyed! Isn't exploring in dilapidated warehouses fun? Oh yeah...you all completely understand
[last edit 7/11/2011 9:29 PM by Il_Baffo - edited 1 times]
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Kodiak Jack
| | Re: Abandoned steel foundry (Plaquemine, Louisiana)
<Reply # 1 on 7/11/2011 9:55 PM >
| | | | Yeah I'll be uploading my shots with the tripod as soon as my comp is back up, I grew up playing tag and getting wasted inside this place, suiting that my great grandfather worked there until it closed in the late 90's. I also have old aerial photos from the 20's and teens of the foundry that baffo should still have. Can't wait to get to exploring the rest of what used to be a golden city of the river, there's a hospital and rumors of a abandoned logging mill, JUST HURRY IF YOU WANT TO UE HERE!!! THEY ARE SLOWLY DEVELOPING EVERY OLD BUILDING IN THIS SLOWLY DIEING CITY, they are trying to save it... Thanks to my bud baffo for coming out and taking an interest in my home town, looking for more to ue with so mssg one of us to hook up.
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Dripik
  
Location: Carson City, NV
Gender: Male
UE is my nightlife
| | Re: Abandoned steel foundry (Plaquemine, Louisiana)
<Reply # 2 on 7/11/2011 10:29 PM >
| | | | Good stuff guys, would love to check this place out. I have been to Plaquemine and there is some good stuff there. Well im sure we will meet up here soon. Good job and keep it up. Love the old ass floats and fire truck.....
“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”
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SilentSearch
   
Location: Cowtown
Gender: Male
My rebellion against the santa cursor! HoHoHo
| | Re: Abandoned steel foundry (Plaquemine, Louisiana)
<Reply # 3 on 7/11/2011 11:28 PM >
| | | | Dating my self here but I have worked off fire trucks of that vintage. (tho they were old when I did.. LOL)
Cool pix anyway!!!
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Maxflier
Location: South Louisiana
Gender: Male
| | Re: Abandoned steel foundry (Plaquemine, Louisiana)
<Reply # 4 on 7/12/2011 8:57 PM >
| | | | Plaquemine isn't that far from here. If you don't mind taking a rookie along, I'd love to check out that hospital with you guys.
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