Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.) -- 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