My dad was a refrigeration engineer and worked here for 10 years (1995-2005) until he retired. At the time, the owner had been told that it was going to be a casualty of the new bridge, so they moved over to another cold storage warehouse in Illinois.
My hometown of Winnipeg has some of these kind of buildings- fortunately, while some of their contemporaries have been claimed by fires, they haven't...
This reminds me of the Pevely Dairy building fire on South Grand (do not remember the date) which was similar in that it also had thick cork insulation which made it difficult for the STL FD to control.
A shame. It was a neat old building that I’ve enjoyed photographing in the past.
Yeah it is. If you have any standout photos, I could share one on the post. You can email it to me at jackie@jackiedana.com
My dad was a refrigeration engineer and worked here for 10 years (1995-2005) until he retired. At the time, the owner had been told that it was going to be a casualty of the new bridge, so they moved over to another cold storage warehouse in Illinois.
That's really interesting, especially since the building remained. Thanks for sharing!
My hometown of Winnipeg has some of these kind of buildings- fortunately, while some of their contemporaries have been claimed by fires, they haven't...
This reminds me of the Pevely Dairy building fire on South Grand (do not remember the date) which was similar in that it also had thick cork insulation which made it difficult for the STL FD to control.