http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/tags/mcfgposter/ Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:08:02 -0700 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:08:02 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm1.staticflickr.com/3/buddyicons/96586445@N00.jpg?1133240844#96586445@N00 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/tags/mcfgposter/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/266642746/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/dystopos/">Dystopos</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/266642746/" title="Rainbow house"><img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/91/266642746_90fe422137_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="Rainbow house" /></a></p> <p>A two-story garage off Richard M. Scrushy Parkway in Fairfield, Alabama</p> Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:08:02 -0700 2006-07-22T16:20:18-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Dystopos) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/266642746 33.489889 -86.912069 33.489889 -86.912069 2401370 Rainbow house <p>A two-story garage off Richard M. Scrushy Parkway in Fairfield, Alabama</p> Dystopos house rainbow birmingham painted alabama 2006 bhamref fairfield scrushy jul2006 mcfgposter http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/19814235/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/dystopos/">Dystopos</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/19814235/" title="taxicabs"><img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/17/19814235_19bcbd2de9_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="taxicabs" /></a></p> <p>Taxicabs parked loosely at the dispatch office adjacent to the 24th St. viaduct in Birmingham, Alabama</p> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:59:19 -0700 2005-06-16T01:01:25-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Dystopos) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/19814235 33.5148 -86.7987 33.5148 -86.7987 23510529 taxicabs <p>Taxicabs parked loosely at the dispatch office adjacent to the 24th St. viaduct in Birmingham, Alabama</p> Dystopos 2005 blue topf25 yellow 1025fav 510fav geotagged birmingham taxi parking alabama 35205 cabs geo:lat=335148 geo:lon=867987 groupshowinclude mcfgposter http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/8168521/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/dystopos/">Dystopos</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/8168521/" title="wbrc sign"><img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/5/8168521_8ff84e852a_m.jpg" width="169" height="240" alt="wbrc sign" /></a></p> <p>The WBRC sign on the north slope of Red Mountain. (Birmingham, Alabama)</p> Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:22:35 -0800 2005-03-26T17:51:30-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Dystopos) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8168521 33.4898 -86.7996 33.4898 -86.7996 2364559 wbrc sign <p>The WBRC sign on the north slope of Red Mountain. (Birmingham, Alabama)</p> Dystopos 2005 red sign 1025fav 510fav geotagged birmingham neon letters alabama 35205 bhamref redmountain wbrc geo:lat=334898 geo:lon=867996 groupshowinclude mcfgposter http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/5157062/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/dystopos/">Dystopos</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/5157062/" title="Ensley mixer"><img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/4/5157062_7ddb7aa674_m.jpg" width="240" height="130" alt="Ensley mixer" /></a></p> <p>View of the abandoned Ensley works near Birmingham, Alabama. The equipment in the foreground is a 600-ton hot metal mixer. When in use it was sheltered under a broad roof and encircled by a pouring platform about 55 feet above the floor. Molten iron from Ensley's six blast furnaces was conveyed to the mixer by overhead cranes in 70-ton ladles. The mixer was basically just a large container in which the output of the furnaces could be blended so that the finished product was more uniform. The molten metal was kept heated by burning by-product gas from coke ovens in nearby Fairfield.<br /> <br /> I've loved this site since the first time I saw one of Jet Lowe's photos from the HAER on display at the Library. I finally found an excuse to trespass while I was in college working on some projects dealing with Birmingham's industrial history and the incorporation of ruins into a working landscape. Anyway, this mixer just seems so ominous and alien sitting out there abandoned.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.al1062">More on this site</a> can be found at the <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/hhquery.html">Historic American Engineering Record</a> (Library of Congress)</p> Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:13:00 -0800 2005-02-20T23:00:39-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Dystopos) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5157062 33.5124 -86.9084 33.5124 -86.9084 12587523 Ensley mixer <p>View of the abandoned Ensley works near Birmingham, Alabama. The equipment in the foreground is a 600-ton hot metal mixer. When in use it was sheltered under a broad roof and encircled by a pouring platform about 55 feet above the floor. Molten iron from Ensley's six blast furnaces was conveyed to the mixer by overhead cranes in 70-ton ladles. The mixer was basically just a large container in which the output of the furnaces could be blended so that the finished product was more uniform. The molten metal was kept heated by burning by-product gas from coke ovens in nearby Fairfield.<br /> <br /> I've loved this site since the first time I saw one of Jet Lowe's photos from the HAER on display at the Library. I finally found an excuse to trespass while I was in college working on some projects dealing with Birmingham's industrial history and the incorporation of ruins into a working landscape. Anyway, this mixer just seems so ominous and alien sitting out there abandoned.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.al1062">More on this site</a> can be found at the <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/hhquery.html">Historic American Engineering Record</a> (Library of Congress)</p> Dystopos 1025fav 510fav geotagged birmingham industrial cloudy steel alabama ruin ensley 1995 bhamref ussteel tci 35218 geo:lat=335124 geo:lon=869084 lostbham groupshowinclude openhearth mcfgposter jetlowe http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en