Exploring a Huge Abandoned Art Deco Power Plant
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- In this episode, we're exploring an abandoned mid-century power plant constructed in a streamline Art Deco style. The main highlight of the facility is the turbine hall, but we also check out multiple control rooms, the boiler house, administrative offices, and more.
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3:27 I operated equipment like this for over 22 years. The blades shown at 3:27 are not turbine blades. That is the collector end of the generator, and the blades circulated hydrogen gas through the generator to cool it.
Turbine blades are within the housings at the other end of the machine.
9:56 That tool is for replacing incandescent lamps. It attaches to a pole for out-of-reach places.
14:45 Electrical Switching, Metering and Relaying bay
17:40 The steam condensers have already been removed. They were located underneath the turbines in the archway-like area in the turbine foundation, near the center of each machine.
19:30 Feedwater Heater
19:50 Transport Pipes, carry pulverized fuel and air to the boiler burners.
19:57 Coal Chutes, carry raw coal from the bunker to the pulverizers.
21:42 This is where the condenser would have been.
22:07 Turbine blades and shaft.
It is astonishing how much material was abandoned at that site.
Very interesting, thanks for commenting :).
10:43 Bently Nevada 3300 Vibrations Monitor Manual, that sistem is still in use this days, obsolete but many places still run those as main monitoring for rotating equipment
You mentioned nothing was being done to preserve it. Well perhaps not physically, but you are preserving it by documenting the architecture and engineering. Good work.
BreeUSA The memory of it, anyway. Which eventually will be all that is left of the many places they’ve explored.
Nothing's being done to preserve it because it's a health hazard. Didn't you see all the signs warning about asbestos?
There were some parts of this video where you could clearly see the guys had their respirators off---needless to say I cringed really hard!
Seriously hope these guys don't get lung cancer from being careless in these videos...STAY SAFE!!
@@uuuultra Asbestos is only dangerous if it becomes airborne dust, not while static.
Yeah it’s awesome that we all get to see there incredible places
uuuultra ✔️ my old middle school was filled with asbestos. They sprayed it so it didn’t go airborne and kids kept going there for years. They also demoed the whole thing and didn’t kill everyone with the Asbestos. If you handle it properly there’s no issues.
Those mid-century facilities embraced a really lean design, lots of open space and visibility, and natural light. Love the old tech.
Yes, but it really doesn't look art deco to me. That was really in the 1920s and this facility (which I think might be in MA?) looks more 40s/50s and not 20s.
True. The design style is "mid-century modern"/"atomic age."
@@UrbanDKaye It's called modernism. The main thesis of modernism in architecture was that all of its beauty comes from its pure form, dictated by functionality. That's why simple shapes, no DECOrative elements - as opposed to Art Deco and lots of functional, square-like spaces.
ok.
I was just think that
I've binge-watched the crap out of your videos, and I've seen the two of you mature through them. But you've always had respect for the places you've explored, and you have never lost the sense of awe over what you've found.
It's the unspoken urbex code. Take nothing but pictures.
steazye I’m sure some people take something once in a while(I know these guys don’t)
I agree BigDave! Michael and Bryan are slightly older than our son, and I too have seen these young men mature watching their videos through these years, and have respect for the way they conduct themselves.
(Well except the goose encounter, now that had me laughing too hard!)
...and leave nothing but footprints.
Shame about the countless others who had no respect graffitiing all over. I love these two, and watching them explore is awesome!!!
Fun Fact: the reason you've found a bunch of that minty green color in old building is because it was the cheapest kind of paint available. You'll see it across the former Soviet Union for this exact reason.
The paint's color was more likely chosen to create an aesthetically pleasing work environment to enhance productivity.
@ That makes sense. I remember seeing caterpillar engines on MRAPs being painted light yellow (as well as their popular construction equipment).
Lots of old factory equipment had it
hahahaha - rubbish!!
It is called machinery green paint
As far as the asbestos containing materials. Dont get too overwhelmed. As long as you aren't disturbing the materials you are perfectly safe. On the other hand if you beating or filing on the materials and creating a airborne particles. At that time you would be at risk for exposure. I've been working in indistrurial facilities for over 25 years. I find these fascinating especially the controls. I'm a industrial instrumentation tech. Some of that technobly is pre WW2 and very functional even in it's current state.
I work in the field of electronics but love to see old tech. The engineers in those days where so resourceful. To bad a lot of those arts are lost.
Every once in a while I find myself coming back and watching this video, you guys most likely got there at the right time as the plant is in the process of being torn down for redevelopment.
I live down the road from this plant. I remember the clock being lit at night when we’d come home late from my grandparents. They’re starting to tear it down now. I know it’s old and has asbestos everywhere but it still makes me a little sad.
I read in an old manual for power plant managers that for the workers to be more productive the plant manager should consider keeping the plant well lit, painted to be aesthetically pleasing, and to practice good house keeping. The plant I work at practices none of those lol.
TheGrindeveryday
I do hvac work for a power plant that was built in early 80’s and your right, it is nothing like this one. It’s hot, poorly lit, and coal dust gets in everything. In fact it’s quite depressing lmao.
The decommed plant in that film is cleaner and better lit than our working coal stations in this country.
Oh and the paintwork even looks cleaner.
Waaay late to the comments here but - what year was that manual from???
Just beautiful. That’s America or at least the one I remember. This is a homage to what was, and what could have been. I can only imagine the pride and feelings of accomplishment the first employees felt. Should be a museum with a museum in it. It’s that incredible. Thanks so much guys!
Yea, when this was up and running. Im sure it was the place to work.
The American Empire. From greatness to destruction and oblivion. Fall of Empire.
@sapyor: Yeah right, as you sit there commenting via an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California and invented by three American internet entrepreneurs using a global system of interconnected computers created by the United Stares. You should Google the word "ironic"
Bea South I should be impressed? I’m not even convinced of the comparison. We now live in a nothing society, no style, no character, no substance. That plant is America, our golden era has past. But if your of a certain age and more than 3rd generation, your clueless. Pitty
Except this is a Canadian power plant. Canada has decommissioned all their coal plants starting 15 years ago. They use mostly nuclear, nat gas and wind now
I have been watching since your first video and your art just gets better and better. Love the calm sensitivity and respect that you bring to all the places that you explore. All the Best from Australia.
Here is a thought, how cool would it be if you could find somebody who use to work there, to walk you around and explain where everything was and what it did?
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YES. Though, most people who used to work there would probably be skittish about being on camera tresspassing at their old job. However, it would be cool of they started bringing a subject matter expert along on some of these industrial sites. An engineer or scientist, depending on the subject matter. Hell, even an architect when they explore some of the older mansions and homes.
You could do a post explore viewing with a former employee , that way their not trespassing, just commenting.
I was thinking that through the entire video! The human aspect for me, no matter the type of place the boys are exploring, is the vibe I enjoy most.
Who were these, likely mostly men, did they have families, coach little league? So many questions!
Angelo Giovanni well am I glad it’s not the 50s anymore. Women aren’t men’s puppets or “objects” we are people too and I’ll be damned if I ever bow in submission to a man 😒
the power plants as usual are the most interesting in my opinion. love the colours in this one, hella aesthetic.
I never thumb up anything that has the word "hella" in it, because well frankly I just hate the word, but I agree so much with you that I have to break my rule and give you the thumbs up you deserve. +1
This reminds me of the Hoover Dam Hydroelectric Plant
@@yadoa3 Hella is cringe but " lit " is spirit destroying soul crushing cringe.
@@yadoa3 Hella yeah!
@@iHaveTheDocuments Super old comment I know... BUT I share the same feelings about the work "Lit" and "Hella" I worked with a guy that from time to time would say "Oh that was Hella-Lit or Hella Dope" He also used the phrase "BooKoo" a lot. I digress.... Power plant videos are my favorite.
Just a heads up, if your respirator is crushing your face it's on way too tight. If you do both a positive and negative air test and don't feel any leaks then you're good. (I'm a mold remediation specialist and wear those for 8+ hours a day 5 days a week) Love your videos! Thank you for the interesting tours
"Avoid breathing airborne asbestos fibers" - that's a good advice. It's a good thing they remind people of that, lest they forget it and start trying to breath in airborne asbestos fibres.
I can’t imagine the amount of noise created into existence when this plant was in operation and how quiet it is now.
Love it.
If you get a chance go to Hoover Dam and do a tour. While it's a hydro and not a steam plant the power room is even more amazing, and the sound of power in there is incredible.
The heat and noise is deafening. But the maintenance people could pick out odd abnormal sounds if something failed. Hearing protection is (was) a must. Laid up ships are even scarier and sound and probably are haunted. As far as Hoover Dam, that's 60 cycle hum and it sure means business.
I weld stainless steel piping for general electric power plants, it's cool to see how it used to be done.
Frame 7 and 9?
Your “whisk “ was a lightbulb changer lol. Lifesaver for when you can’t use a ladder.
Also, these old light bulbs got hot. Much better to use one of these than to burn your hands.
That "whisk" is a light bulb remover. You attach it to multiple poles and you can unscrew lights without getting out a lift or tall ladders.
I love Mid Century art deco design. The machine age. that turbine hall really makes me happy. I'll bet it was an amazing sight, and quite the spectacle to behold when she went online for the first time back in the 40's.
I love hearing the howling of wind. Its creepy but cool.
Very creepy! Waiting for some hack explorer to plaster; 'Haunted Power Plant' with them in some goofy pose for their thumbnail, next to their video of this place!
The Witcher approves
23:52 I thought it was a cat howling or something haha that’s crazy
I love your power plant videos, they're my favorite videos you all do! I would love to see another nuclear power plant. Keep up the good work!
Omg yes those are amazinnggggggg
We probably won't see a nuclear power plant again. To find one in the stage of decommissioning they found that one in is rare, even rarer given how sparse security was. I think it was probably so loosely secured because of how secluded the site was. The NRC suspended most to all new plant projects after fugashima and states like CA are actively in the process of decommissioning their remaining plants. I'm surprised they didnt get in trouble with the DoD and DoE for that one.
That being said, I too would love to see another nuclear power plant. I'm a physicist, if they needed/wanted someone to come along and explain some of the more esoteric stuff, I'd happily volunteer my services lol. The public has such a negative perception of nuclear power, which is a shame, because nuclear reactors are THE cleanest and least polluting sources of reliable energy we have 🤷♂️
@@Ender.wigginn was thinkimg the same! Some countries in europe are demolishing their nuclear powerplants, But instead they are building coal powerplants. It makes me very upset because they say it's "better" for the environment lol...
@@Ender.wigginn And where do you want to put all the nuclaer waste ?
@@Ender.wigginn This is true. Even the hardest left greenies realize this if they actually analyze the science and data of all the options.
Videos of places like these are so important. You guys are really capturing on film the last major remnants of this country's original industrial heritage, when men built things that were incredible and to be proud of, and were built to stand the test of time. That era is over, and I don't think that it will come about ever again anywhere in the world.
Thanks again.
"Dumb ass graffiti", just one of the many reasons why I love you guys 💕😆
And security guard geese 😂👍
valenius the kat Exactly, I really don't get why EVERY abandoned place has to be destroyed and covered in graffiti. I mean, I'm not against good graffiti but c'mon...
@@intheshadowofathousandbean563 art is one thing, graffiti is vandalism 👍
@@valeniusthekat Lol majority of the great artists in the past or today do or did graffiti with it being their introduction to art in the first place.. Interesting take.
Great video, I worked in a coal plant for 40 years. It is now also shut down and abandoned. It was constructed around the same era. First unit on line in 1952. I wish someone would document iy before it gets demolished. Great work guys.
Ooooh, another power plant! These are definitely my favourite videos to see. It's weird that big industrial places and power plants in these videos always make me anxious. Like it's wrong to even see them or something.
Also that quote at the end was deep.
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roli: hold my comment
Kai_T4 it’s called early access. Patreon and all that stuff.
roli thanks for supporting this awesome channel. I don’t patreon, but I do have a Polaroid
@@rolaroli yeah I'd patreon too if I could, this channel deserves more love
Awesome vid as always guys. Man that plaque at the entrance summed up the pride and work ethic they had at the time. All of that engineering complexity and yet things were simpler back then. Not sure if it's technology to blame or everyone just wanting to make easy money or what but things sure have changed.
9:56 that item is to change light bulb on a stick when they are prety out of reach
That would totally work in a Sci-Fi movie
Great video! I absolutly love these old industrial buildings. You should go to poland one time, its absolutly full of old industrial buildings like powerplants and coal mines 😁
The reason why I love your video documentaries is this. Thank you for giving respect to these monuments of energy, the life blood of our lives. Indeed, these places won’t be around long, as God isn’t creating more land. This forgotten place like others, is memorialized in your work.
This structure is the work of an architect who took pride in aesthetics as well as function. I'm sure there were many other architects who submitted ideas, but when people saw these drawings they recognized its beauty.
It's really something else to see a place of work that is now totally abandoned. All the people who worked there, the experiences they had. That place is like a huge still portrait of mystery, with a bit of sadness
I was a Field Engineer for GE in the 70's and 80's and saw some abandoned power plants. But the spookiest things ever are derelict ships. We had to board a few to locate some obsolete bearing or seal and they have string lights inside with dim bulbs every 40 feet or so. Ships creak, bang, thump, moan, and sound haunted. The Austral Moon tied up at Hunter's Point in San Francisco shook me the most. The Chief Engineer left his coffee, cinnamon roll, and cigarette there on his desk and stopped writing in the log book mid sentence 3 months before. Everyone just left and never came back.
Thanks for paging through that turbine manual. It's great seeing something that's been lost and abandoned resurfacing somewhere on the internet. You guys are keeping the memories of these places alive. Thank you!
Your passion for these otherwise forgotten places shows. You actually cared and were angry about about the f**ckbags who vandalized it. So glad somebody appreciates the building's history. And one of my favorite parts of a building is the staircase too
My mother would cry if she saw this plant. She was a electric power production specialist in the military in the 70s. I am going to show her your video! Thank you for another amazing upload!
I love the fact that y'all go to explore these places simply to appreciate old architecture or just for the joy of exploration -- never to vandalize or steal. I really respect y'all for that. Plus the videos, in general, are just so fascinating. I'm so glad I discovered this channel.
Excellent explore. It always amazes me how much instrumentation is in a power plant. I fear the aesthetic design of industrial plant nowadays is a dying art.
Graeme Davidson, the aesthetic phrase is thrown around too much these days
You guys have such a good eye for film and photography. You create beautiful art, and I really appreciate it!
To know what to do is . . . Wisdom
To know how to do it is . . . Skill
To do the thing as it should be done is
. . . SERVICE . . .
You guys seriously make the best content on CZcams proper urbex content no click bait garbage always get mad hyped when uploads come out thanks guys for the amazing videos
I understand from someone who commented on one of my videos that I didn't click bait either. Coarse, I think that was months ago, but still.
4:08 These are direct current generators that create the initial supplementary excitation magnetic field in the generating turbine to then provide brushless excitation generation of power. Really cool video!
This plant is in really good shape for an abandoned building.
Must be active security patrols scaring away the scrappers.
The plant hasn't been shut down for too many years. This coal fired plant was one of many closed down by the Obama administration's EPA. These plants produced inexpensive electrical power for their customers.
I was thinking the same, though some areas have clearly been vandalized, so much remains in pretty good shape!
@@Urbicide damn obama. Affordable energy for the local community and decent well paying jobs. Gone. I was thinking the same thing about it.
I think it might be the one in CT on its own little island
I love those old tourist brochures. I really like how you threw in the bit about them fantasizing about vacationing there, it really adds a genuine realness in such a surreal place. It humanizes the plant in a way. Well done as always Proper People!
These videos always make my damn weekend. When I come home from work, this is the first thing I watch.
At 3:53 you can see an ITE KA Slate-back breaker. It normally resides inside the greenish-metal cabinets. As seen, it's in the "racked out" or "disconnected" position and one of it's arc chutes is missing. On the back side is a set of metal "fingers" that grab onto the metal bars in the back that carry the voltage when energized. The beauty of it was that it could be "drawn-out" and worked on easily, or lifted out of it's cradle and replaced with another unit. What makes it special is the very first circuit breaker to ever use an inverse-time element to operate a large switch to protect people and equipment from overcurrent caused by ground faults, short-circuits, and overload. The circuit breakers in your house panel are just a scaled down version of this beast. Really cool to see!
This is by far my favorite channel on CZcams. I hope you never run out of amazing places to visit.
I love how your videos have become more like short films with smooth narration mood appropriate music and much more steady filming plus I love when you share background history. I also really love when you show colmon things like bathrooms light fixtures glass bottles telephones floor tiles and windows etc.
For kids of the 80s, such modernist structures are a piece of the homespace of our minds. Fun to visit the past.
There's nothing wrong with asbestos. My grandfather worked around asbestos for 65 years and had no problems, granted, it took 4 days to cremate him but still
@Ashley Welborn woooosh
Ashley Welborn asbestos is a fire proofing substance
This is my kind of humor, I like you, haha
Epicdude200 Only 4?
Lol
I can just imagine how loud that place must have been when operating. Hearing protection was a must.
Turbines aren't as loud as you think.
If this is where I think it is. That clock on the building worked and was the right time until the very last day of operation. So neat to get to see inside after all the years of just passing it. Im happy you guys do your best to keep locations secret to help deter vandals. Its sad what humans can do to a place.
10:38 imagine if this plant was still open, and you apply for a job opening, and the supervisor told you to read 5 of those books, just to make sure you understand those custom build turbines and generators! I would go insane :P
That turbibe blade assembly is just fascinating!
And all the other mechanics of it all 😍👍
+1 for using exactly the right protection!
I always wait impatiently for your next adventure. I enjoy your videos immensely. And the fact that you neither destroy or steal anything. The only thing you leave are footprints. Thanks for sharing.
Sameeee. I wish they uploaded everyday lol
Awesome, I used to work in a coal fired plant of the same size and vintage. The turbine generators, the Hear Here booths, yellow brick tile...all the same. I would have liked to see the coal pulverizers. With 6 units, there would have been 18 to 24 pulverizers in the basement. Also your approach to asbestos is correct. If it isn't marked non asbestos, it's PACM. Presumed Asbestos Containing Materials.
Edit: spelling
I know you're saying I did that plant was a waste was coal boilers have been changed the oil burners if they did that those generators would run again it's a damn shame to see them like that what a waste
Is the coal pulverized I assume to increase the surface area to in turn burn the coal faster?
@@roadchewerpe5759 pulverizers crush the coal to a talcum powder consistency. There are fans that blow hot air from the boiler(few hundred degrees Fahrenheit) through the pulverizer. This air/coal mixture travels through pipes to the boiler where it is ignited. The pulverizers in this plant were probably originally ball and race style. Think large ball bearings that crush coal as they spin.
@@ec8107 they were roller mills. 3 per boiler. The primary air in this setup was provided by the FD fans from the boiler air casing, no dedicated blower. I worked at this plant as an operator for quite a few years.
@@roadchewerpe5759 that is correct, increase surface area and the burn efficiency goes way up. This coal was burnt in suspension in these particular boilers, meaning it was blown is at the corners on the and burned in the furnace suspended from the floor. I worked at this plant.
You will be happy to know they are making conservation efforts for this place. It just is taking a while b/c of all the asbestos.
I would love to hear more about such efforts.
Amazing video as always lads, always brings a smile to my face when I get a notification saying you uploaded. Top explorers❤️
Well done, gentlemen. The book you were checking out was the plants' "O&M" (Operation and Maintenance) manual. You were correct in stating it was specifically for that plants' application.
The quote on the large placard at the end of the video is known as "The Ushers' Motto". Some who have attended services in a Baptist church will recognize it, but it's very much applicable to life in general.
The last part left out of the quote refers to "pure service" as being the most noble thing a man can do.
Also very true.
Been watching your guys' content for a while and just noticed this video. Thanks for making this! My grandfather worked here for years as a stationary engineer and was a volunteer firefighter. I'll have to show my grandmother this. Sad that they're going to be demolishing it. My mom watched the moon landings in the small guard post by the gate when she was young. Place looks surreal at night.
23:49 - "The wind in here sounds crazy..." Imagine hearing that in that room at night with no lights. Gives me the shivers just thinking about it. ;)
A taste of the after life dear
Those dark, ambient synths really makes this video an 11/10! Well done!
Mikael Granqvist I sit and watch vids and re work them with my synths love it, good ear
Pure and simple, This power plant was made when craftsmen and engineers had pride in their work.
That cared about what they were doing and had an ethic for leaving a legacy more than making $$$.
Something that is not thought of today.
There are very few true craftsmen.
We now live in a disposable society. Instead of fixing things, we throw them away & buy new.
8:45 This is scene with the rain coming down is by far my favorite one out of the whole video. I wish you guys would include more moody shots like that!
this was awesome! Loved it! Absolutely adore the Art Deco Style, sad to see such craftmanship crumbling and rusting away! despite all the vandalism, I am glad to see that they weren't completely destructive, most of the dials and equipment are undamaged! Keep up the amazing work guys!
The railings throughout are beautiful examples of deco. Some builder should salvage these and use them in a new project.
@16:40ish.... Turn that shot on its side and it looks like a futuristic city 👀👍
Inception!
@@iMagic16 yes it does 👊👍
I live near here...
Update: Just explored it (one hour ago, actually) and it's just as mindblowing in person as it is in this video. Great work guys, I love your stuff.
Molotov are you located in lower Ohio?
I think I live close to it too. Is it close to a baseball field names after food?
@@jacobagee3755 yooo dog
@@aaronarmstrong9776yeah it’s currently being tore down
@@aaronarmstrong9776if I knew a good way to get in to explore it now I would during the day there are people there working then at night no one they used to have security there
Old power stations are amazing. As you might imagine, we have a few of them in the UK, big and small, and we work hard to restore or find uses for them. Battersea Power Station is perhaps the most famous, it's now being redeveloped. Bankside power station is now the Tate Modern in London, with massive spaces for art and performance. There are a few smaller stations privately owned and converted into homes and offices too, but as almost all of them are listed and protected so everything has to be approved to maintain their features and aesthetics wherever possible. TBH, if you're buying an old power station, you're probably doing it for the aesthetics anyway and want to preserve it. It's a shame we're not investing in modern architecture in the same way we used to, everything we're throwing up now is cheap and temporary in comparison.
Books you were referring to about the control system. Those were operator manuals for the vibration monitoring systems. I've worked with many of those in the past. They can measure vibration along with thrust and use key phasers to measure rotational speed. That condition monitoring system can be used to monitor the rotating equipment and give key indicators to when it might need major overhaul type of work. Pretty critical stuff and that brand "Bently Nevada" is the best product in the market for that. Surprised it was just abandoned, there is a big demand for aftermarket equipment like that. Great find.
The amount of small intricate electronics and pipes are amazing. You would have never thought of a relatively simple powerplant to have something this complex
Plants like this one have powered peoples lives for generations and deserve to be preserved and shared. Thanks for the chances you take getting footage that allows the rest of us to explore these places too.
that shot at 16:45 reminds me of some kinda complicated apartment building in a dreary futuristic industrial universe. love it
edit: and that BOILER ROOM lookin like a feral ghoul is gonna pop out at you guys any moment
Power plant and rainy weather damn The Aesthetics are strong on this one!
I love your exploration of old industrial sites but what I love even more is when you explore hospitals, sanitariums and asylums, those by far are the creepiest and most interesting in my opinion. Seeing all the old equipment and apparatuses and the conditions in which the mentally ill used to be committed is really barbaric and makes you think damn, they had it bad with all the experimentation in that field at the time essentially being guinea pigs for those psychopaths, but keep rockin it guys and we'll keep watching it.
URBEX ON Gentleman !
We're all Guinea pigs now, worse than ever. People just don't realize it but we are. It's not an accident that cancer just keeps going up and up and up. Cancer in children was almost unheard of until modern times. The psychopaths you speak of were only working for us. Now people are using technology you can't even imagine that's in use right now on everyone.
Andrew J Whoa! Pump the brakes kid, you're all over the place and off topic. By the way there's been a Cure for cancer since the 40's brother, And I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say that psychopaths were working for us? The psychiatric doctors that worked back in the day we're not doing research for us, they were quite literally mad men who had a free ticket to experiment on humans to see what the results would be , do some more research you're preaching to the choir here.
Oh, btw, Alex Jones Is controlled opposition bro, people in the truth movement left that clown behind about a decade ago. now that I see you watch info wars you have a lot to learn my friend... Have a good one, get back to me when you shed that shill...
Wonderful episode guys. Good call on Twin Peaks. Try not to confuse Art Deco with Mid Century Modern. They both have evocative looks that will never again be reproduced, but they are completely different. Really appreciate the way you guys have matured over the years which has led to more interesting videos.
Yea we're aware this style isn't really Art Deco, just something that evolved out of it. But we went with Art Deco since that is a term that most people are familiar with and it fits in the title better. I think technically this building would have been Streamline Moderne. The front facade of the office section was textbook Streamline Moderne, the turbine hall less so but it still had many elements of it.
@@TheProperPeople No matter what you call it it was a cool building. Thanks for the tour.
I live 75 miles from Snoqualmie Falls. Seeing that brochure was like "Hey! I know that place!" for me.
Yea I saw that and now I'm curious where that powerplant is.
12:35 Good to know that "Deb loves creampies"
useful information if you ever run in to said deb
I'mma need more info..... like in front or in back? lol
This was the comment I was searching for. I am not disappointed.
Wonder where Deb is
@@brittherself I'm a nice guy it's whatever the woman prefers lol
That place is a work of functional art, and it should be saved. Thanks for bringing this to us all.
You say that the only people to see it worked there but companies back then took great pride in their plants. They would show them off in film, photography or visits. The better the plant the more solid the company.
Imagine that people had to engineer and build this. Holy cow.
New 'the proper people' upload! Have we won the lottery? No but this is very close.
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Loved your closing comments on this one! I absolutely agree, I miss the days when we certainly cared about the function and utility of what we designed and built, but we wanted to have some pride in the entire outcome including appearance! Then the bean counters started taking control, and it has become nothing but $$$'s on a spreadsheet...sad. This was also from a time where the executives in companies made maybe 4-6 times what the workers made, not more like 40-60 times. Can't worry about looks when those exec's have to have their mega salaries and insane perks and benefits.
Just wanted to say many thanks for this video and bringing back some fantastic memories of me and my dad. My dad worked for General Electric at the Basildon, UK facility during the 1970's and 80's and as a kid I would sometimes go there and he would take me out on the shop floor where the turbines from ships and power stations would be brought from across the UK and parts of Europe to be refurbished and have the blades replaced, realigned and rebalanced which was done by a lot of very talented people by hand. It was truly something to see, some of the turbines even when on their side were still up to 2 stories tall.
Imagine taking ownership of a facility like this and taking the time to read through all the manuals, repair all the tech and clean up everything back to fully working condition. Would make for a great CZcams series.
Mattboy300 omggggg that would be brilliant. I'd follow it religiously.
Wow what a cool place, that color scheme reminds of the 1950s and on top of that their General Electric turbines which doesn’t surprise me as by the 1940 and 50s GE was considered to be the top of the line in electronics and home appliances. I imagine dudes wearing white shirts and black ties working with these machines back when they where brand new, and lastly those huge consoles with all of the analog equipment. It was a different time when things where built with care and attention to detail. Such a cool place.
I agree with you
I love this style of architecture and machine design. And to think, all of the prints for this were drawn with a pencil and paper, no autocad or solidworks.
I have no idea why but industrial sites are so much more frightening than anything else I've ever seen thank you so much for being safe and bringing these excellent quality videos so that we can all explore with you guys for the safety of our home always be safe and thank you again have a beautiful evening! :-)
Wow looks like they just up and left right now! Except for the broken glass.
Connie Miner, the broken glass is likely from vandals
I know!
You guys should try and contact the current owners of the power plant just to see how much it would cost to try and save certain items from the building and have them preserved because I'd love to see one of those turbines on display somewhere
What a beautiful industrial site! Thank you so much for sharing this. Some of the shots of rain pouring down and when you walk inside the control panels are deeply emotional and truly cinematic, like those scenes found in the Ghost in the Shell and Bladerunner movies. And cheers up for crawling into those respirators. Take care and stay safe with those hazardous dusts...
This is my favorite video. It is an amazing trip into our past but you truly captured and connected us to the generation that built and operated the plant when you read the lobby sign. It was a transformative moment where we all could feel our former generations come alive.
Guys, have you ever thought of flying your Proper Copter in a large hall like this? I can only imagine the amazing shots you'd get!
We'd have to fly it without GPS which we aren't very good at.
“You’re walking in asbestos”
“Yea”
I live just up river from this plant and have passed it hundreds of times on the bike trail in the last 25 years. I knew it was closed but had no idea to this extent, I assumed there was still *something* happening inside. I feel like it was functioning not very long ago. Very cool video and cool to see the interior. I always thought it was more up-to-date on the inside.
There use to be a huge cooling building that would've been basically dead center in the opening shot next to the river. It had giant fans on top that would billow heat fumes. I was surprised to see that building gone last time I was at this dam.
I've done maintenance in a coal powered facility with a 75m (246') tall building covering the massive furnace and generator. I got to crawl in the pulpy waste of the burnt lignite down below and climb to the very top floor of the building.
Each floor is grated steel so you can look down until the pattern of the floor covers itself. The traditional way to get to the top was to jump on this cyclic type elevator to get to the top. You could not pay me to ride that. As when I last visited the plant they had it shut down because a worker fell 5 floors and was lucky to be alive. Think riding on a stair step with a handle all the way up with no fall protection.
I would love to explore this place once it gets shut down soon. 6750 square meters (72,656 square feet) of building rising 75m to explore.
23:01 is a radial arm drill. They are categorized by the height and length of the arm. That one may have a maximum drill size capacity of 2 inches. Radial drills are only accurate to about a 32nd. Presses and turret mills/drills are accurate to a thousandth.
It's a beautiful peice of machinery, lost.
The only reasons a good radial drill would be inaccurate is heavy wear or poorly ground drill bits. You are talking out of your backside.
My favorite bando with my favorite explorers. But y’all missed the best room. That big steel door held tons and tons of blueprints
We have some of the "hear hear" phone booths at our industrial facility. These were really common place before radio communication was established. It use to be operator would communicate with the control room using these phones. The booth had sound proofing and would block out a tremendous amount of the noise being transmitted by all the rotating equipment in the area. Funny thing about the place I work, they have these same phone booths and they have big explosion proof phones that are rotary dial, surprisingly many of them still work. Usually there is a yellow flashing light associated with these, when they flash this will alert the operator of an incoming phone call. Good stufg
I just realized where you explored. It's such an amazing place inside and out, thank you for letting the rest of the world see it!