Unidentified Abandoned Building
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Those 5 drives listed on that site are on my list of things to do in fall! Anyone else ever done those?
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No, but I may have to add them to my own list. I love to go on drives.
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Yes! That's an area I always heard was called "Gulf." The building is an old canning factory.slow_walker wrote:I was taking a friend home the other day and she showed me a shortcut to her house I was unfamiliar with. Took me all the way down East Division street to Hwy 125, then turned me south towards Hwy 60. Right after we turned onto 125, I spotted THIS BUILDING. Click on the marker & choose the street view.
Friend said she thought it was an old school. Anyone familiar with it at all?
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And about 40 years ago, you could clearly read "GUlf" on the tower.
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slow_walker wrote:I was taking a friend home the other day and she showed me a shortcut to her house I was unfamiliar with. Took me all the way down East Division street to Hwy 125, then turned me south towards Hwy 60. Right after we turned onto 125, I spotted THIS BUILDING. Click on the marker & choose the street view.
Friend said she thought it was an old school. Anyone familiar with it at all?
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Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but I was interested in that building since I was a kid in the early 70s. There was, indeed, an old water tower nearby, with the Gulf petroleum logo on it. The place was always called “Gulf Station” by the kids I knew. I heard two stories about the building. It was either a canning factory or a shoe factory.slow_walker wrote:I was taking a friend home the other day and she showed me a shortcut to her house I was unfamiliar with. Took me all the way down East Division street to Hwy 125, then turned me south towards Hwy 60. Right after we turned onto 125, I spotted THIS BUILDING. Click on the marker & choose the street view.
Friend said she thought it was an old school. Anyone familiar with it at all?
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I would bet that was an oil pipeline pumping station. There is a building that is remarkably similar that I've looked into in the past and that's what it turned out to be.
ETA:
Yup, definitely a pipeline pumping station.
Check it out.
https://www.historicaerials.com/locatio ... 74/1959/17
ETA:
Yup, definitely a pipeline pumping station.
Check it out.
https://www.historicaerials.com/locatio ... 74/1959/17
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So, how does the map identify it as a pumping station? Or is that a guess on your part? I’ve done just a bit of research into that place. No one seems to know definitively what it was, why it was there, or what it was called. I’d be real interested to have some real history on the place. Cool view, though!Chris wrote:I would bet that was an oil pipeline pumping station. There is a building that is remarkably similar that I've looked into in the past and that's what it turned out to be.
ETA:
Yup, definitely a pipeline pumping station.
Check it out.
https://www.historicaerials.com/locatio ... 74/1959/17
EDIT: Paydirt! The News Leader ran an article. Here’s the link: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/ ... 433379002/
It was a pumping station.
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