02/23/06 - The Continental Aluminum Plant
Last semester I had a class called Advanced Website Design. In said class, you had to create a website about whatever topic you like. I chose Detroit Urban Exploration (going into abandoned Detroit buildings) and on the website I put up a wish list. This list comprised of three items, #1 - the train station, #2 - Broderick tower & #3 - the continental aluminum plant.
To make a long story short, a man named Chris Sypolt e-mailed me about it and told me even more things than I knew. He knew so much because he worked there from 1991-1994 as a Aluminum scrap buyer, before leaving in 1994 to reside in Seattle, Washington.
The inside of the Continental; quite vacant and roomy.
Shout outs to JLAW.
Kayla, Holly & Donnie used as a reference of size.
Shout out to 40 ounces (can you spot it?)
Large hole providing one of many openings into the structure.
There was plenty of stagnant water on the roof and it steadily dropped onto these branches below.
KOSEK had this spot on lock. Donnie & myself were pleased.
"Old School"-style STORI
Water Tower...
A great DEAD KRAK HEAD piece...stupid local kids go scribbling atop.
Looking through a ceiling hole towards the smoke stacks...
Fire alarm...
Getting my artistic picture skills on...as you can see, we should have brought the flashlight in.
Turdle...
Kayla's roommate Holly
Safety first...signs like this always make me envision my workplace being abandoned.
What appears to be the foreman's office; you can see the previous sign off to the right.
Kayla
Some nice FOHR characters in the black dross (aluminum slag) building.
Detroit's own ESAU with New York's own SKREW
ARMY ADOR
Some more KRAK HEAD cats and a DEATH
Kayla amazed to be able to take some KOSEK home with her
...said KOSEK from the previous picture.
One of the buildings complete with smoke stack.
Entrance.
Panoramic of the Continental compound.
Sorry for the lack of captions, I think the pictures explain themselves in these photosets.
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