Imagine if you will, a world where a cement plant goes out of business and after all is said and done, after the world has moved on, the only thing left behind is… cement?
I would say that the product of a company would typically be the first asset to be liquidated, but then again once cement has set it is very rare that it can be turned back into a liquid. Some things are just that way I guess.
The Standard Portland Cement Plant in American Canyon is quite an unusual place in an unusual place. A long defunct plant smack dab in the middle of what is now an up and coming neighborhood that is growing around the decaying leftovers. Surrounding it. Is it like a shell? Or is it slowly constricting? Swallowing the past.
And yet it still stands.
According to the interweb and ignoring the history of the natives that were here prior, this site dates back to 1887 when it was a quarry operated by the Basalt Rock Company which supplied materials for the construction of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and “other stuff”. Operating until 1902 when it was aquired by the Standard Portland Cement Company which expanded operations to include the prodoction of? You guessed it, cement!
Operating as a cement plant from 1902 until the 1960’s the plant was involved in providing cement for projects like the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hoover Dam! Today, the remains are a reminder of days past, time forgotten so on and so forth.
And now I give you the rest of the photos. Thanks for dropping by and letting me ramble. Or maybe you just looked at the photos skipping over the words, it’s cool. Your lips were moving, so it looked like you were reading at least.
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