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kemmer
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Sandy UT
Gender: Male
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< on 1/2/2007 6:50 PM >
|  | | | This steel plant is being demolished, and this is all that's left of what was a large complex.
I went out this morning and didn't see anyone. Is there normally security? If so I guess going early on new years day was a good idea!
#1 Approaching from the rear
#2 "Road Closed"
#3 Collapsed Front
#4 Exposed machinery
#5 Machinery and interior
#6 "basement swimming pool"
#7 "BBQ time"
#8 "skylights"
#9 Rubble in the entrance
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rsolimeo
   
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Philly
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<Reply # 1 on 1/2/2007 7:19 PM >
| | | | it looks like you got a chance to check this out at just the right time. Another day or two and this place is a goner.
Be carefull, places that are in the middle of demolition are not always the safest places to be, especially inside. this building seems to be getting demolished from one side to the other, so being inside is one dangerous place to be.
Great find, good shots, thanks for the share.
"Exploration is really the essence of human existence." [Frank Broman]
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lexiphoto
   
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Denver, Colorado
Gender: Female
UE Den Mother
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<Reply # 2 on 1/2/2007 7:25 PM >
| | | | dangerous and beautiful
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Corporal_Clegg
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Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: My first UE pictures, Steel plant demolition.
<Reply # 3 on 1/2/2007 7:45 PM >
| | | | I like #1 and #2.
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Shai Hulud
location:
Evansville IN
Gender: Male
Shai, Team Phantom
| | Re: My first UE pictures, Steel plant demolition.
<Reply # 4 on 1/2/2007 9:30 PM >
| | | | The first of these is perfect. They kinda go downhill after that. The pictures aren't bad, it's just that the subjects you photographed don't interest me that much. Try taking number two again, but move back about 5 paces and complete the "road closed" sign so that it's less distracting. In number eight, the light in the upper right needs to be darkened by a lot to fix the blow-out. Other than that, there isn't a whole lot wrong with these that I've found. Good job, I'd be happy to see more.
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kemmer
location:
Sandy UT
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first UE pictures, Steel plant demolition.
<Reply # 5 on 1/2/2007 11:21 PM >
| | | | Posted by Shai Hulud
...Try taking number two again, but move back about 5 paces and complete the "road closed" sign so that it's less distracting... |
Thanks for the feedback! I actually almost took the picture with the sign completely in the picture. I chose not to because everything else in the picture is incomplete and in pieces. I liked the sign and wanted it in the picture but it was too new and too nice, it seemed out of place in the image. Does that make sense, or does it not make up for the distraction? Perhaps I should have either eliminated it entirely or included it completely. Again, thanks for the input!
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Urban Pirate
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Salt Lake City
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 6 on 1/4/2007 1:54 AM >
| | | | Kemmer, I also explored this power station, though I was fortunate to get there before demolition began. With that in mind you may be interested in this set of photographs from there:
http://www.uer.ca/...urrpage=1&pp#post0
-Pirate.
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Lucas Seidenfaden
location:
St. Joseph, MI <---> Frankfurt, Germany
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first UE pictures, Steel plant demolition.
<Reply # 7 on 1/4/2007 4:03 AM >
| | | | i really like the first one. it is nicely sharp and contrasted in the front and has a good looking high key look to it in the background. good stuff 
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Air
location:
Canada
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<Reply # 8 on 1/5/2007 5:54 AM >
| | | | Posted by kemmer
#3 Collapsed Front
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Dear God, that's fresh! Let me in dammit!!!!
"The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist |
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Air
location:
Canada
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<Reply # 9 on 1/5/2007 6:03 AM >
| | | | Looking at this again (with the scenery and the stacks), I know I have seen it somewhere else before....
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kemmer
location:
Sandy UT
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first UE pictures, Steel plant demolition.
<Reply # 10 on 1/5/2007 4:21 PM >
| | | | Where is that? Did you take that picture? Are those our mountains?
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nobody
location:
VANCOUVER B.C.
Gender: Male
5:55 is a state of mind
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<Reply # 11 on 1/5/2007 4:23 PM >
| | | | Good coverage, sad to see the destruction of another beautiful giant from industry past. N.
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Air
location:
Canada
| | Re: My first UE pictures, Steel plant demolition.
<Reply # 12 on 1/5/2007 6:56 PM >
| | | | Posted by kemmer
Where is that? Did you take that picture? Are those our mountains?
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How could i take the photo if it was during construction..? This is dated 1942.
It is located somewhere on the Library of Congress page, where u can download these licence free images.
I found it months ago, if you guys have a Colombia Steel Co., (later sold under a skecthy underbid to US Steel, then renamed Geneva Steel) being demo'd in Geneva, Utah -- that is it. This is a LF photo, so if you d/l the tiff you'll be amazed at what you will see.
Tiff here: http://memory.loc....34800/1a34846u.tif
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedi.../wiki/Geneva_Steel
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INFO Added:
Partly finished open hearth furnaces and stacks for a steel mill under construction which will soon be producing vitally needed steel, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah
Feininger, Andreas, 1906- photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
1942 Nov.
SUBJECTS
Columbia Steel Company
Steel industry
Construction industry
Mountains
World War, 1939-1945
United States--Utah--Geneva
Transparencies--Color
MEDIUM
1 transparency : color.
CALL NUMBER
LC-USW36-814
REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-DIG-fsac-1a34846 DLC (digital file from original transparency)
LC-USW361-814 DLC (color film copy slide)
PART OF
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection
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Urban Pirate
location:
Salt Lake City
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first UE pictures, Steel plant demolition.
<Reply # 13 on 1/5/2007 7:34 PM >
| | | | Posted by Air 33
Quoted text...
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Going on this information, this would indeed be the same place. If you're interested in seeing more photographs from Geneva, check the regional board for Utah and you will find multiple Geneva entries. There is also an entry in the DB for this location. Finally, our website has two Geneva galleries:
http://www.urbantr...20Power/index.html
http://www.urbantr.../Geneva/index.html
Thanks for showing us that photo.
Pirate.
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Air
location:
Canada
| | Re: My first UE pictures, Steel plant demolition.
<Reply # 14 on 1/5/2007 8:24 PM >
| | | | I found another one....
Thx for those two links, I'll check them out tonight. Good to put two and two together.
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kemmer
location:
Sandy UT
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 15 on 1/5/2007 9:26 PM >
| | | | Very cool! My grandfather worked there for like 40 years, I'm sure he'd be thrilled to see those pictures (along with the ones I took). Thank you!
Kemmer
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Air
location:
Canada
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<Reply # 16 on 1/6/2007 4:42 AM >
| | | | Posted by kemmer
Very cool! My grandfather worked there for like 40 years, I'm sure he'd be thrilled to see those pictures (along with the ones I took). Thank you!
Kemmer
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No problem! It was great to put two and two together here. That looked like quite the site to explore. I wish I could have seen it.
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Urban Pirate
location:
Salt Lake City
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first UE pictures, Steel plant demolition.
<Reply # 17 on 1/6/2007 5:10 AM >
| | | | Posted by Air 33
No problem! It was great to put two and two together here. That looked like quite the site to explore. I wish I could have seen it.
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It was phenomenal. One of those sites that really reminds you why you explore to begin with. Thanks again for the images, I downloaded that tif, its a HUGE file.
Pirate.
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