[Leica] IMGs: Wayback and Now

[Douglas Barry]

All things must pass, Alan.

I found it hard to see that last section in the original building 
photograph. I presume that the latest image was taken in a slightly 
different spot to the original?
Why don't you try and replicate the original shot with a similar size 
lens, etc.?

Douglas


On 18/06/2020 01:26, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG wrote:
> 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.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildings/Demolished+Buildings/19770210_MR_AllisChalmers_19.jpg.html
> View of the last section, 2020.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildings/Demolished+Buildings/20200617_MR_AllisChalmers_DSF6864.jpg.html
> (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.)