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A couple of interesting links;

http://www.lileks.com/match/gallery/131.html

http://www.phillyfiren...tp/Publickerfire.asp

Very interesting, Mathue - thanks! Truckie will be especially interested in the second article, I think. And our Backy will want to go over there and start digging. ;-)

I just saw this post. Thanks Lynne for thinking of me. Mathue I can only get about 1/8 of the page to load. What all is on this page or what is the article about.
Thanks.

It discusses a 6-alarm fire that occurred back in May, 1955 at the Publicker Industries warehouse. Very interesting.

That explains the whiskey barrel racks.

My cousin lives right down the road and we were recently there...there is 1 warehouse that still has a bunch of caps from the bottles, and all the old packaging equipment and scales...also there was recently construction and one of the buildings were torn down...but it wasnt a big warehouse...it was a small building...i love it there

simple. even so i am impressed. it looks cryptic. i always love the abandoned scenes over the photos that try to draw you in with the guise of shadows to give it a haunted apperance. i do adore the simple greyness of abandoned life that this photograph radiates with.

I worked at Kinsey Distillery right out of High school in 1966. It was a great place to work and would still be in Bussiness if the Chairman a Great Man had not died suddenly and a couple of Lawyers did a hostile takeover of Publicker the parent Company! When I worked there 600 people were empoyed there. Over 500 in 2 shifts in the Big Bottle House which is 2 foot ball fields long And had 11 bottling lines! I still go back from time to time to remember and write on the web about my Memories.
I still keep in touch with some of the people still livng that worked there. Publicker was an Awesome Company to work for and I have many stories about the place.

At one time we had the Worlds largest amount of aging Whiskey in those warehouses about 14 Million barrels!
DZ