Gates Rubber Company - Demolition Diary part 12
Haven’t taken a look at Gates in about a year. Guess I should see if it’s demolished yet… Like a shining beacon on the horizon… Going back to Gates as kind of a palate cleanser. Not only am I scratching that persistent itch of homesickness, but writing the last story ( Video Vision in Winona, MN ) depressed the crap out of me. So I’m going to look at a massive Rubber Factory getting slowly dismantled. That’ll cheer me up! Since work was concentrated to a much smaller area, I’m going to cover my three visits to finish out the month of March. The last entry in the Gates Demolition Diary , covered March 9, 2014. Demolition work was now focused on the north end, so I didn’t take as many photos. Buildings that were very close to the RTD Park & Ride were now going away, Each of the March visits were pretty much contained to photos from the Park and Ride. I learned there wasn’t much point to parking at US Bank (at Broadway and Mississippi), then walking up the block for some redundant p...