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 dwtaylor999
  
Location: Unassigned Lands, Oklahoma
Gender: Male
 |  | Abandoned Robin Hood Flour Mill
< on 3/10/2011 4:30 AM >
|  | | | Founded in 1909 in Saskatchewan Canada, Robin Hood flour still exists today, part of the Smuckers corporation.
The elevator was originally built by the Ponca City Milling Company, established in the early 1900s. The company also had a facility in nearby Blackwell, Oklahoma. Construction began in 1922/1923 and was completed in 1927. The business was purchased by Robin Hood Flour in 1945. Robin Hood Flour closed the Blackwell facility in 1950, consolidating it with this one, until it was closed in 1959, consolidating with the Kansas City facility.
The office and warehouse building has been utilized by several companies through the years, but now sits vacant with the exception of a small section on the lower floor. The remainder of the building has been declared unsafe due to fires and neglect. Currently only crackheads and hobos haunt the facilities.
Most of the major milling equipment was removed following the facilities closure. The large "Robin Hood Flour" logo was originally a bright red, but has faded with age. It is located next to the train tracks in the old downtown area and has dominated the skyline there since its construction. The old passenger train depot was located in it's shadow and was one of the first things to greet the passengers when they arrived.
The elevators themselves are still quite solid and if left untouched, will stand for decades longer. The brick warehouse and office building has had a couple of fires and will probably be demolished within the next few years. In the next photo you can make out part of the old PONCA CITY MILL COMPANY logo showing up under the Robin Hood logo.
This lower section on the left is the sole section deemed habitable.
It was a cold day when I took these pictures, no crackheads or hobos to be found.
Somebody must have thought there was something worth having in there. It was nothing but a power room.
It's good thing it was a cold day, otherwise this rotting 50 year old grain would have smelled like a$$.
An interesting building, and on a warmer day and had I been less sober, I may have tried for the top....not.
[last edit 3/10/2011 4:54 AM by dwtaylor999 - edited 3 times]
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sandy frank
 
Location: Indiana-ish
Gender: Male
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| | Re: Abandoned Robin Hood Flour Mill
<Reply # 1 on 3/10/2011 4:53 AM >
| | | | I'd love to meander its innards. Indeed.
I've no sense, I lick electric fence; I put barbed wire in my pants and do a Celtic dance.
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Arch-Image
 
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
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| |  | Re: Abandoned Robin Hood Flour Mill
<Reply # 2 on 3/10/2011 6:31 PM >
| | | | Very Cool! Love to spend some quality time in this one!
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Dripik
Location: Carson City, NV
Gender: Male
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| | Re: Abandoned Robin Hood Flour Mill
<Reply # 3 on 3/10/2011 6:40 PM >
| | | | Great set.. I really love old factory. Looks like your doing a good job showing us OK. Keep up the good work they seem to be getting better.
“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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pinkmeowcats
Location: Oklahoma, US
Gender: Female
| | Re: Abandoned Robin Hood Flour Mill
<Reply # 4 on 3/10/2011 11:40 PM >
| | | | I think I drove past here a while ago, not sure. Very cool though. I always look forward to your posts!
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Imbroglio
 
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
| | | Re: Abandoned Robin Hood Flour Mill
<Reply # 5 on 3/11/2011 6:09 PM >
| | | | Very nice...have you hit the old Airline Drive-In there in PC?
[last edit 3/11/2011 6:10 PM by Imbroglio - edited 1 times]
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Imbroglio
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
| | | Re: Abandoned Robin Hood Flour Mill
<Reply # 6 on 3/11/2011 6:16 PM >
| | | | One other neat thing about Ponca City that I noticed when I rolled through there a couple years ago...they seem to have a nice municipal wi-fi system in place, at least along US-77, the main north/south drag through town. My laptop picked up the signal as I entered from the north, and maintained it until several blocks after turning onto South Ave, headed west for US-60.
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dwtaylor999
Location: Unassigned Lands, Oklahoma
Gender: Male
| | Re: Abandoned Robin Hood Flour Mill
<Reply # 7 on 3/11/2011 11:29 PM >
| | | | Posted by Imbroglio
Very nice...have you hit the old Airline Drive-In there in PC?
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Oh yeah, it was a classic old drive in. I actually remember watching movies there when I was a wee one. I've been working on some of the old historic downtown areas on Grand Ave, which has some great old buildings. If you're through there again, check out the Marland Mansion, it's well worth the delay.
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