Saturday, January 15, 2011

Sugar Factory Coming Down...Slowly




I was out practicing with my new camera today and took these pictures of a local landmark, which is being demolished very slowly with a small wrecking ball. Giant chunks of concrete defy gravity, suspended in webs of rebar. This used to be a very large sugar factory when our city was rural. It was one of the largest sugar beet factories in the world at one time. Now it has been deemed seismically unsound, too expensive to bring up to code, so it must come down. I finished taking pictures and I was driving away when I looked up and saw the door swinging open at the top, so I changed my lens and, voila! I could see inside. Obviously a very drab, gray day.

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