Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.)