david from forgottendetroit.com was in town for the weekend, and we headed out to carbo-sil in niagara falls today. i hadn’t paid much attention to the place before yesterday, then realized, hey, i should go there! very cool place. very easy to access. alot of abandoned vehicles in there, including a school bus. and lots and lots of barrels of crap. it’s so niagara falls hahaha. i wasn’t too fond of some of the “mud” we had to walk in. but my shoes haven’t melted yet. it’s a strange place. it’s pretty when you are there, but just looking at my digital thumbnails, it doesn’t photograph well. and digital sucks. i took 2 rolls of real film, but probably won’t get them developed til i get back from vacation.
in one of the buildings, which appeared to possibly have been used as a mechanic office at some point, had a big shelving unit full of bags of rocks. labled samples, with the location they’re from. sometimes bigger rocks, sometimes more gravel like, and some really fine material maybe not rock. didn’t want to touch them too much though. there was also a 45 of a madonna song “stay” which i’m not sure i ever heard.
across the street from carbo-sil is globe, possibly one of the most beautiful factories i’ve ever seen. i think it’s still in use though, so no attempt was made to check it out closer. i’d love to. at olin yesterday security came immediately and weren’t all that happy with me taking pictures. i don’t think they understood why anyone would want to do such a thing. you know, except terrorists taking pictures of chemical plants to bomb or something. they kept asking me who i worked for, MYSELF AND MY OWN ENJOYMENT thanks. all i was doing was walking down the sidewalk in front haha.