old tools in todays news

[bgarrett]

Todays news article shows a Silk mill in Maryland that closed in 1957 and hasnt been touched since, with pictures of some tools

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2556717/Inside-forgotten-helped-clothe-America-Amazing-pictures-silk-untouched-worked-1957.html#readerCommentsCommand-message-field

[rustcollector]

Rather depressing to look at those pictures really. A story that can be repeated so many times around this once great industrial nation unfortunately.  I didn't see where it said so there, but probably destined to be torn down at some point in the not so distant future and another piece of American history will be gone.

[leg17]

Those two "bells" sitting on the radiator with the shoes and coca-cola carton are certainly special.

[Nolatoolguy]

That should be put in a museum if not become a museum.

Its just a amazing glimpse of history and how things would of been. I could only imagine how it would of been back then.

I am amazed its still there. I got a chance to go to a auction at a factory that made tractor parts. It closed 1996 but a good amount of its tools were from the 1950s. The auction didn't take place until late 2012. In sitting empty for 16 years it became taken over by squatters and gangs. It was really sad cause even thoe some stuff was put in lots you could see the destruction people did. Soon after the auction the building was torn down.   

[bgarrett]

the next city over from me has decided that shopping malls  are more important than an automotive machine shop that has been in place since 1946.
imminent domain      the crank grinder, boring bars, valve and seat machines, block and head surfacer are all going to the scrap metal yard along with tons of smaller tools and our history. 
they have to be out by march 1st and the city will bulldoze the building but the empty lot will probably sit there for years

[Papaw]

"Bells"!! Oil cans. And on the left is a wrench many of us would like to have no matter what make.

[rusty]

> And on the left is a wrench many of us would like to have no matter what make.

And then how is the poor lady sitting next to the radiator going to turn the heat on? LOL