Not the greatest photo I've ever taken, but it's been relatively cold and clear the last couple of days, and this is a shot I took from in front of my house late yesterday afternoon. In the background (through the trolley wires) is Grouse Mountain where the American TV networks set up their home base during the 2010 Winter Olympics. It's about a half hour drive from me that includes crossing a bridge over the inlet (which is not obvious from the photo).
As you can see, the snow is up on the mountains where it belongs, and not on Vancouver city streets.
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ok... if there were a bunch of other buildings that were machine shops and the door way is quite large, it could have been a truck building plant. I know of one up here in NY that had 8 machine shop buildings and one final product building that looked similar. It was for RV's.
All of the other buildings had a hand on what went on in this building. A machine shop was just one building out of the 12-15.
In the fourth picture down, you can see a part of two circles. The inner circle is 22 feet in diameter and my son is standing on the far side of that circle.
That inner circle has a BIG factor on what went on in that building.
EDIT to say it is not a turntable. No trains, boats or planes. What was TESTED inside that building was huge.
In the pic below, I am standing on the spot that also played a big part at what went on in that building.
EDIT again to say that the anchor point is one of MANY.
I was going to guess that it was used to test engines of some sort. (Like rocket engines?) The tie downs were to prevent whatever it was from scooting off. Or maybe it was part of a missile base or something. Hard to tie any of that to the water department.
Wait... maybe a turbine or some sort of pump or generator?
We have a winner in Raydar. This was one of two anchors that I saw and it was huge. My son is standing about 5-6 feet to the side of the one in the pic and he is 6ft tall. Notice the shadow on the R/H side of the anchor block to try and get some idea on the size.
The shot of the building were I was quite a bit away from it (in Raydar's response) is to show you how far they rolled the building away from the 22ft diameter EXHAUST of the largest rocket motor when they test fired it.
Here are some more of the buildings. This was the fire station with my Sunfire parked inside.
I do not know what these buildings were used for.
In this pic, I am standing on top of the anchor that is in the above pics were my son is standing next to it.
In some of the pics you can see the dirt that was piled up against the building in order to protect it from any mis-haps that might have occurred.
Click on the link for some more pics and a history of your tax dollars. Look at the second to last pic in the link to get an idea of how big the exhaust was during a test fire. Notice the building to the left of the flame and that is the building that I mentioned gets rolled away from the 22ft diameter circle.
Click on the link for some more pics and a history of your tax dollars. Look at the second to last pic in the link to get an idea of how big the exhaust was during a test fire. Notice the building to the left of the flame and that is the building that I mentioned gets rolled away from the 22ft diameter circle.
The company was and still is The Aerojet General Corp. of Sacramento Calif.
Excellent info! Thanks for sharing! If you care about this stuff, you'll find the info at the link quite fascinating. Take a few minutes and read the blog comments. Most of them were posted in 2007-08. Several of the posters were worried about the general public finding the place and vandalizing (tagging) it. (Duh.)
From the blog... =========== Dale Says: May 12th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
i used to go there and play back in 1974, here are some facts that i know about the place.
the grain or fuel mixing vats were long concrete vats 3-4 feet deep and 5-6 wide and 75-100 long, they were on the rignt side of the main road, somebody in the late 70′ rented the place and raised catfish in them, when he lost the lease he dumped them in the lake next to the vats were i’v been told it’s still full of catfish. one building had a room with a glass wall 9 feet thick for mixing fuel.
most of the building were dummys for cold war reasons.the main road was able to land cargo planes
the building over the silo had large aircraft type wheels on the inside corners and it would lift up and drive its self down to the block house when the motors were tested,
one old timer told us that one test went wrong and the motor came out of the hole and fliped around out in the glades
We have a winner in Raydar. This was one of two anchors that I saw and it was huge. My son is standing about 5-6 feet to the side of the one in the pic and he is 6ft tall. Notice the shadow on the R/H side of the anchor block to try and get some idea on the size.
The shot of the building were I was quite a bit away from it (in Raydar's response) is to show you how far they rolled the building away from the 22ft diameter EXHAUST of the largest rocket motor when they test fired it.
In some of the pics you can see the dirt that was piled up against the building in order to protect it from any mis-haps that might have occurred.
Click on the link for some more pics and a history of your tax dollars. Look at the second to last pic in the link to get an idea of how big the exhaust was during a test fire. Notice the building to the left of the flame and that is the building that I mentioned gets rolled away from the 22ft diameter circle.
The company was and still is The Aerojet General Corp. of Sacramento Calif.
Google ---Aerojet Everglades-- to get more info.
I hope you enjoyed the pics and lets keep them coming with some New Years pics.
Wow. See what I get for partying last night? I was instaling machinery in Aerojet Sacramento right before Thanksgiving! And was thinking like Ray, rocket test building. But I hadn't realized the BUILDING moved, and the rocket was stood up vertically.
Whew we were building the machine, I checked Aerojet's website, and then looked them up on Google Maps. Their facility is huge, and most of it appears to have no buildings. Untill I zoomed in. The Google satellite images are all distorted and blank out large sections of the place. Wonder what's there?
The guy I was working with said, "we DO NOT have 'explosives' here. We do have 'energetic materials'. Which, if handled improperly, will result in a HIGH ORDER DETONATION." He also said, every few years, the do a demonstration for the employess of what will happen if 'energetic materials' are 'handled improprly'.
I noticed in the first line of your response was the name RAY. I found a green "CAUTION" tag by one of the buildings attached to a pressure gauge. The name on the tag was Ray Lynch and dated 6/26/64.
Any chance that is your last name assuming Ray is you first name?
I noticed in the first line of your response was the name RAY. I found a green "CAUTION" tag by one of the buildings attached to a pressure gauge. The name on the tag was Ray Lynch and dated 6/26/64.
Any chance that is your last name assuming Ray is you first name?
No, no chance at all. I was referencing RayDAR, above, who correctly identified the building first. I don't work for Aerojet, and in 1964 I was 7 years old.
I do wonder where Mr. Lynch is these days. We should look him up. He helped us win the Space Race, and kept us safe from Communism. Thanks, Ray. And all the guys who worked alongside you.
Perfect thread for the random pics I took on my trip to San Angelo Texas. This was taken west of Memphis. Found this little guy by the pond at the place we stayed over night in Faust Arkansas.
Was a very memorable trip and, enjoyed it immensely hope to be going back next year. I have tons of random shots from the trip out, and back.
Oooooh! I just had an eyegasm! Thanks for posting that, I've never seen one from that angle. Come to think of it, neither have its enemies.
EDIT: I just noticed, it has a D21 Drone, too! Wow! Don't see them too often. They didn't officially exist until long after the Blackbird was declassified, AFAIK.
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I'm cheating here. I just opened a book on B29s and a photo my daddy took fell out. I digitized and cropped it so you can see the nose art a bit better. Probably taken at Hobbs NM or Davis Monthan AZ near the end of its life. In a previous paint job this airplane was called "Trojan Spirit". Now it's "721" Notice all the trips it took over the "hump" to supply Chinese bases from India to support the bombing of Japan. The 678th also attacked Bangkok Siam, to bomb railyards and bridges. Also Formosa, Malaysia, Burma. etc.
EDIT: I just noticed, it has a D21 Drone, too! Wow! Don't see them too often. They didn't officially exist until long after the Blackbird was declassified, AFAIK.
The Aircraft pics are awesome. I have been meaning for a long time to go get pics of the blackbird here at the Space, and Rocket center. And, now more randomness. This little guy jumped on me as I entered the place I was staying in San Angelo. Just thought that was interesting.
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