The Red Hook Grain Terminal

Peter: 19th Apr 2009 - 02:39 GMT

apologies in advance if any of these photos look grainy, heh...

Sean Hopkins: 19th Apr 2009 - 02:42 GMT

Duh Dun Tsssshhh!!

SO sweet man. I love the angles here. I'm also diggin' that smashed out window art.

Peter: 19th Apr 2009 - 02:44 GMT

adam tells me that theres more than meets the eye to that transformer building...

Sean Hopkins: 19th Apr 2009 - 03:10 GMT

Absolutely not.

Well, yea they are corny.. but I'm a fan.

15th picture down. TIGHT.

Peter: 19th Apr 2009 - 03:17 GMT

corn-y... lol...

when i snapped that photo, there was the heaviest, coldest, deadest draft of air tearing around me like a rip-tide. it was... a bit creepy.

Sean Hopkins: 19th Apr 2009 - 03:20 GMT

Nice. Yesterday I was talking to Puleo about how much I love that cold draft that accompanies abandonment.

...: 19th Apr 2009 - 04:51 GMT

Too bad you didn't get inside - the view from the top of the grain terminal is nice!

adam: 19th Apr 2009 - 07:11 GMT

My bad jokes wore off you today apparently. Glad you got all the shots I couldn't get with my full memory card ;).. as usual.

Would've loved to have gone to the top. We probaly should have since security didnt see us till we tried to walk around the front. Im wondering if the black undercover car that found us ten minutes later was related to the crazed security guy.. "show meh your ids!" .. uh, hell no

WJB: 20th Apr 2009 - 13:54 GMT

this elevator's history is recounted in my new book, American Colossus: the Grain Elevator, 1843 to 1943.

http://american-colossus.blogspot.com

Sanzay: 20th Apr 2009 - 17:48 GMT

Looking at the "Tranformer House" you can actually expect a Transformer sci-fi character crawl out there ;-) Nice pics!

Nicole Solimano: 27th Apr 2009 - 03:36 GMT

that red machine in the second photo is a crusher...it will pulverize those rocks into gravel...I work for a concrete company. And to Sanzey it does turn in to a Transformer! Its motto "I will crush you" in a german accent!

Peter: 27th Apr 2009 - 03:44 GMT

yup, thats exactly why i took its photo. my mom used to work at a cement factory full of gigantic versions of them, heh...