04-14-2011, 01:49 AM
Hi Jonte
I had a look at the photo and the others in the series, and at the moment I'm going to have to admit that Im stumped.
The fact that there is a high roof area at one end does sort of indicate to me that it could be some sort of heavy engineering factory, ie steel fabrication with the indoor crane located under the high roof. The only down side to that theory is that those sorts of industies also like outdoor space possibly with overhead crane facilities to store raw materials and jobs in progress.
There are no tell tale smoke stacks or flues and apart from the piles of earth or sand.
Thinking about if it was sand, it could possibly be something like a cement roof tile factory, assuming the finished product is stored on the other side of the factory, but there are no advertising signs..
Perhaps you can check something like the Sanborn insurance maps of the era and find out who occupied the building.
Does the building still stand today? If not when was it torn down? We are only talking 20 to 30 years ago so someone working in the area must know.
Mark
I had a look at the photo and the others in the series, and at the moment I'm going to have to admit that Im stumped.
The fact that there is a high roof area at one end does sort of indicate to me that it could be some sort of heavy engineering factory, ie steel fabrication with the indoor crane located under the high roof. The only down side to that theory is that those sorts of industies also like outdoor space possibly with overhead crane facilities to store raw materials and jobs in progress.
There are no tell tale smoke stacks or flues and apart from the piles of earth or sand.
Thinking about if it was sand, it could possibly be something like a cement roof tile factory, assuming the finished product is stored on the other side of the factory, but there are no advertising signs..
Perhaps you can check something like the Sanborn insurance maps of the era and find out who occupied the building.
Does the building still stand today? If not when was it torn down? We are only talking 20 to 30 years ago so someone working in the area must know.
Mark
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