Articles from Joe

G.M. Plant Demo

author: Joe : Sleepy Hollow, NY
Monday, August 8th, 2011

G.M. Plant Demo

author: Joe : Sleepy Hollow, NY
Monday, August 8th, 2011

G.M. Plant Demo

author: Joe : Sleepy Hollow, NY
Monday, August 8th, 2011

Long Time Gone

author: Joe : Los Angeles, CA
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Los Angeles Courtyards

author: Joe : Los Angeles, CA
Monday, September 9th, 2002

Second Try for the Picture of Union Station in Los Angeles

author: Joe : Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, June 20th, 2002

Union Station:

author: Joe : Los Angeles, CA
Wednesday, June 19th, 2002

1986 Was the Year I Left Los Angeles

author: Joe : Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, June 15th, 2002

G.M. Plant Demo

author: Joe : Sleepy Hollow, NY

Hoisting an excavator/shear to begin demo of the upper floors. The concret floors were about 5" thick which is quite thin but, the steel re-bar inside the concrete was closely matted and heavy gauge which allowed us to put such heavy equipment on it. The upright I-Beams for the building were spaced at 50' apart creating a 50' grid throughout the building. We weren't suppose to have more then 1 piece of equipment in a 50' square but when we saw how strong the re-bar made the floors we usually had 2 pieces of equipment in them. Usually consisted of a...

G.M. Plant Demo

author: Joe : Sleepy Hollow, NY

From the last I-Beam taken down,some of us had small pieces cut to use as our personal paper weights.

G.M. Plant Demo

author: Joe : Sleepy Hollow, NY

This was the last I-Beam to come down at Sleepy Hollow G.M. Plant on Dec. 23, 1999. In photo are some of the heavy equipment operators from Local 137.