Cool old machine shop

[john k]

In the left foreground the lathe gears are hanging on nails on the wall.   But around the lathe, and on down to the end of the building, that wall looks like poured concrete.   Nothing hanging on it, and over the lathe it looks like wet stains seen on concrete when the forms are pulled off.    The end wall in the background, can see daylight thru some cracks.   Poured walls would of been a rarity in 1916, long before the redi-Mix truck. 

[Chillylulu]

5 or six years ago I went to Victaulic Corp in Easton, PA. (Across the street from the crayola factory.)

They drove us out o a test facility to witness some fire testing.  They told us that the testing building once belonged to Thomas Edison. He had planned on pumping concrete from there to NYC.

Maybe they didn't need Redi-mix trucks?  Redi-mix wagons, with Clydesdale teams to deliver to the site!

Chilly

PS The testing and factory was very cool.