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Abandoned AmericaShelves in an old machinery shop abandoned when the owner died
Photos/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/alexander-conca-machine-shop
Wendy MsGator 🐊
Woozle Hypertwin@WendyMsGator @AbandonedAmerica Yes! WANT. (Mainly the storage shelves, because they look supercool and useful, but I'm sure I'd find uses for the stuff too -- especially with places to file it all...)
@woozle @WendyMsGator I love shelves like that. This is making me want to add more shelves to my basement
olaolarolla@AbandonedAmerica nothing my hand held Dirt Devil and a bottle of Windex can't clean up brah...
Fritz Adalis@AbandonedAmerica
Wow, it was an old 'belt driven from the ceiling' kind of machine shop.
Wow, it was an old 'belt driven from the ceiling' kind of machine shop.
@FritzAdalis sure was! I got to see them running too, they really cool the shop down.
invno1@AbandonedAmerica isn't that interesting! I bet he could find everything in there and someone else would be utterly lost. Reminds me of my great-grandfather's garage.
@invno1 Sad to think of the whole worlds that vanish when people die. All his knowledge erased.
Bee O'Problem 
@AbandonedAmerica Some of those pics look like it's barely been abandoned. It's in surprisingly good condition.
The main signs of disuse/age I see is the neglected state of the very obsolete machines there. That and the general vintage of everything.
@beeoproblem all of the machinery has been cleared out since and it was turned into a home. The people that live there even bought a few of my prints, which I thought was cool 😊
PA0ETE@AbandonedAmerica Hi Mathew. I signed up for your mailing list yesterday. Your photo's are really really wonderful and your stories and choice of subjects too! Please continue going this way :) Best greetings from the Netherlands!
@PA0ETE aw, thanks so much! I appreciate it 🥰
iz_floresta@AbandonedAmerica think of the knowledge that person had. They probably knew the exact location of every item, every use case. The ingenuity of being able and willing to repair anything, instead of buying new is beautiful and amazing.
@iz_floresta I agree, just was commenting on another reply that the idea of so much of that knowledge vanishing with someone's death is sad and a bit horrifying.
@AbandonedAmerica I wish I had unlimited time, unlimited lifetimes to absorb all of that knowledge that slips away.
@iz_floresta me too. I kind of hope that when I die I can just travel through time and space to just see how everything worked.
@AbandonedAmerica I can understand that. To be clear, I have no desire for immortality, but it would be cool to have my consciousness transferred to a computer so that I could explore all that's been archived. Sadly, as is true with many Indigenous cultures, there is still vast amounts of cultural knowledge that is passing away with elder generations.