[Leica] IMGs: Wayback and Now

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

Allis-Chalmers was one of the largest industrial corporations in Wisconsin
(the city of West Allis was named for it).   Its business lines
included agricultural
equipment <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agricultural_machinery>,
construction
equipment <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_equipment>, power generation
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation> and power
transmission <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_transmission> equipment,
and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory>, flour mills
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gristmill>, sawmills
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawmill>, textile mills
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_manufacturing>, steel mills
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_mill>, refineries
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refining_(metallurgy)>, mines
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining>, and ore mills
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extractive_metallurgy>, and it produced
munitions in WWII. The main building stretched about five blocks along 70th
street when the company shut down in 1988.  Today I had to drive to West
Allis, and saw that the last remaining portion of this structure was being
demolished for condos or apartments.

View of most of the original building in 1977.
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View of the last section, 2020.
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(In the 80's I met one of A-C's retired photographers, Michael Durante, and
he related tales of shooting the huge turbines, etc. using large format
cameras
and multiple flashbulbs connected by long synch cords.  He gave me a
battle-scarred wooden handle from one of his beat-up Pentax 6x7's for me to
use on my mint one.)
-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amagayneroshak at gmail.com
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
 for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt