Commercial buildings
The whale car wash
Built on the corner of Northwest 50th Street and North Meridian Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma around 1970 Not much is known about the eye caching structure, and today it has been torn down, so any information would be more than…
Bengal Enamel Works LTD
Bengal Enamel Works Limited had a large factory just outside Calcutta. They produced a long row of enamel signs and products. The Indian army bought their Enamel plates from Bengal Enamel Works, and the factory also produced the “ESSO Elephant…
Bertha Rogers
The Lone Star Producing Company’s oil exploratory hole, Bertha Rogers, was 9.583 metres deep, and the worlds deepest hole between 1974 and 1979, where the Soviet Union broke the record with the Kola Superdeep Hole. The drilling was done with…
Crosfield General Merchandise
This little shop is located in the small town of Wasco. In 1903, Oregon Trading Company, owned by Mr. E. o. McCoy, and Mr. Gearge N. Crosfield burnt down.This building was presumably built shortly after that. It has been abandoned…
Hotel Belvedere
The Hotel Belvedere was built in 1882, in the centre of a hairpin bend on the beautiful Furka Pass that was created in 1867. The hotel is situated close to 8.000 feet, or 2.500 metres above sea level. In 1907,…
Hotel Monte Palace
Opened the 15th of April 1989 as a luxurious 5 star hotel, on the top of a mountain. The hotel had 2 restaurants (Dom Carlos, & Grill Dona Amélia), an american style bar (D. Urraca), a nightclub (Discoteca Charmarrita), a…
Bannerman Castle / Bannerman Island Arsenal
The castle was actually a large warehouse, built on Pollopel Island in Hudson River, by the Scottish businessman Francis Bannerman VI, as a warehouse to store his stock of weapons and ammunition. Bannerman bought the island in November 1900, to…
Dunk Island
One of the islands that make up the Family Islands National Park, and a part of the Great Barrier Reef. 4km from the Queensland coast, not far from the town of Mission Beach. The Island was named by James Cook…
Calico
Established in 1881. Largest silvermine in California, by the late 1800’s More than 500 mines, and a population of 3,500 people. In 1896 the government decided to regulate the price of silver, by introducing the “Silver Purchase Act”, witch made…
The woolly warehouse
Decades have gone by since the doors last were opened in this large stone warehouse. Now big sacks of wool, are being covered with dust, together with the old three wheeled van, that brought them there. Industrial area full of…
