Grain Elevator

[steinjr]

My first concern is if elevators made of concrete have been common in 1930 already?

There were essentially three types of elevators:
- country elevators (small elevators out in the small towns, where farmers delivered their grain and the RR picked it up)
- receiving elevators (like for flour mills or breweries - where they stored grain they were going to process - like the Pillsbury elevators)
- terminal elevators (where grain merchants stored grain before selling it and shipping it out)

Concrete elevators were constructed from around 1900 or so, and quickly became popular for receiving and terminal elevators. Here is e.g. a 1910 photo of a concrete elevator from Minneapolis: http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresour...geid=75687

There are lots and lots of pictures of such concrete elevators prior to 1930.

My second concern is if they would fit in a small town just to collect the local farmers harvest.

For a small town, maybe a wooden elevator would look more typical - maybe something like these elevators on "elevator row" in Clara, MN, ca 1910: http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresour...eid=195950

But no rule without exception

Grin,
Stein