Abandoned AmericaThe abandoned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette building
Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-pittsburgh-post-gazette
BrownsBay@AbandonedAmerica Boy, this brings back memories. My Dad worked for 40 years as a pressman for the LA Times. He would take me through the pressroom when I was a little kid. Later, when I was in college, he got me a part time job as a paperhandler, moving rolls of newsprint to the presses down in the reelroom, one level below the photo. All the presses were Hoe, except one was a Goss press. The Times downtown pressroom closed when they opened the new plant on Olympic Blvd around 1990.
@brownsbay that must have been amazing. I would have loved to have seen this in motion
Chad Jordahl 
@AbandonedAmerica
I can't figure out why there's still newspaper in the presses, stopped midstream.
I can't figure out why there's still newspaper in the presses, stopped midstream.
JT@cjordahl @AbandonedAmerica It’s a time saver. When an edition is done the press is slowed to a stop and the paper left in place. That way the pressmen do not have to re-web the press for the next run. Even if there is a configuration change, it makes it easier to re-web if the paper can be cut where the change occurs rather than feed it all the way through the units.
@J_T @AbandonedAmerica
Aha! That makes sense! Now that I've heard your explanation it's almost obvious. Very cool, thanks!
Aha! That makes sense! Now that I've heard your explanation it's almost obvious. Very cool, thanks!
@cjordahl @AbandonedAmerica my pleasure. They’re amazing machines. The presses we ran could put out 40,000 copies per hour. Every second counts and wasted time is not tolerated in a newspaper pressroom!
Rosey@J_T @cjordahl @AbandonedAmerica Webouts suck. At least ten minutes to web up and another three to perfect the alignment and tension.
A lot of paper waste for that whole operation as well.
A lot of paper waste for that whole operation as well.
Kenny Smith@AbandonedAmerica At least, when they shut it down, they left the newsprint web in place.
@kennysmith probably didn't know they weren't coming back?
Dave Wellman@AbandonedAmerica the extent to which traditional journalism is dead is one of the least understood stories of the last half century.
@DaveWellmanB yeah. It's hard to believe such massive empires vanish so quickly
Kenrick Fischer@AbandonedAmerica oh, now that’s a cool image.
@AbandonedAmerica spent many hours of the day and late into the night watching presses run and lending a hand. It’s a hard business and it’s hard on families. I thought I loved it, but I know I hated it.
Ray N. Franklin 🇺🇸@AbandonedAmerica Love the little Daleks lurking at the end of each machine.
FreddyB Aviation Photography@cvvhrn thank you!
toxtethogrady@AbandonedAmerica Looks like the last edition was banadoned on the press...
AJ Hondo@AbandonedAmerica All I see are a bunch of Hoes.
Trinsec @Qoto@AbandonedAmerica Looks like we don't have material shortages at all...
We merely abandoned them.
Iwillyeah@AbandonedAmerica hoe hoe hoe, Merry Christmas, I guess
xs4me2@AbandonedAmerica Awesome...
@xs4me2 thank you!
AKMA@AbandonedAmerica Well, that’s heart-breaking to a former Pittsburgher and a former pressroom labourer…
@AKMA they moved out to the burbs but I'm sure a lot of jobs didn't make the transition
Kenneth@AbandonedAmerica If this isn't a set for a steam punk film...
Virginicus@AbandonedAmerica that’s de-pressing
Caleb@AbandonedAmerica Straight out of Fallout. I dig.
Monsterlander@MrMisfit @AbandonedAmerica @MrMisfit God yeah they are gorgeous. The intensity of the greens is ridiculous.
@MrMisfit I think I'm going back to replay 4 soon, can't wait