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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2009 15:15:17 GMT -5
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Post by Randy on Apr 2, 2009 23:06:49 GMT -5
Very nice photos Wayne, it's a shame our past is wasting away.
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Post by olroy2044 on Apr 2, 2009 23:48:45 GMT -5
I really enjoy your photos of that area, Wayne. Thanks for posting!
Roy
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Post by John Parry on Apr 4, 2009 3:10:27 GMT -5
Great pictures Wayne.
People WILL look at them in a hundred years and see how the world has changed. I know this, because I've just finished a book about Manchester, past and present. Between recessions, the Luftwaffe and the IRA, my city has changed from the industrial heartland of England to a hippy community. I quite like it actually!
Regards - John
ps I'd better clarify - I mean I read the book, I didn't write it!
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Post by renaldo on Apr 5, 2009 11:07:37 GMT -5
A towering reminder of what was!
And I see, Mr. Wayne, that you "found" the D300 again. Or are just giving the D50 a rest.
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Post by PeterW on Apr 5, 2009 17:14:47 GMT -5
Nice pictures, Wayne.
I'm always fascinated by pictures of abandoned buildings. They always have for me a slight overtone of sadness, something which was once a living building where people lived or worked but is now empty and lifeless.
When was the mill built? My knowledge of US industrial architechture is pretty abysmal, but it looks to me around the 1960s-ish.
That doesn't immediately strike me as being very old, but I keep forgetting how young many US towns are, apart from some on the eastern and western seaboards, and even they aren't very old by UK standards. I looked up Idaho and found that the first settled communities started about 1860, and Idaho has been a State in its own right only since 1890
In contrast, my own town of Ashford goes back more than 11 hundred years, to about the year 893, and was listed in William the Conquerer's domesday book in 1086 with the spelling 'Essetesford'. The railway came here in 1842, and the Ashford Railway Works was built in 1846. It closed, sadly, in 1981 after building many fine steam locomotives and handsome rolling stock.
I've lived here since 1971, and my house was built in about 1883. Since I've lived here the town has changed so much I have to look at old photographs to remember exactly what it was like. Fortunately, the Ashford Society and a couple of local historians have been carefully documenting the changes on camera, both film and digital. Make sure you do the same for - is it Caldwell or Boise? - the pictures will be invaluable in years to come.
Getting back to the mill in your pictures, I can't say I like the architectural style very much, even for an industrial building, but that's just a matter of personal likes and dislikes. It still seems a pity that it will probably be gone this year. John is quite right when he says that for future generations those pictures will be looked on as history.
Also, what did it mill? The two metal silos suggest a grain of some sort, but I thought Idaho's main crop was potatoes. Or was it a mill in the other sense of the word, like textiles or paper?
PeterW
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2009 21:19:42 GMT -5
Peter. The mill produced feed for cows at local daries. Frankly it didn't break many hearts when it went up in smoke. The operators seldom cleaned their filters and that end of town was constantly being covered by chaf and dust from the milling process. Our company had to sent people up on the roof of our buildings and shovel off the accumulated mill chaff because of the weight and fire hazard.
The mill was able to get away with the pollution because it was "grandfathered" in when stricter rules were introduced. But after it burned the owners would have had to rebuild to currect environmental standards--something that they couldn't do or didn't want to do.
The town was founded about 1885 when the RR came through so it is young even by U.S. standards. Your guess at the date of the mill was considerably off, however. It is my understanding it was built in the late Nineteen teens or early twenties.
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Post by drako on Apr 13, 2009 15:32:23 GMT -5
I love it! I've got a bunch of neat shots of Arizona ghost towns on display at www.goldmountainmining.com/arghostow.html. I can't take credit for these, though; they're published with permission from someone else.
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Post by drako on Apr 13, 2009 15:34:29 GMT -5
Weird. I tried testing the link I just posted and it won't directly to the page but instead to my home page. If this happens to you, just click the Arizona Ghost Towns link on the left.
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