Sunday, October 21, 2012

More Bridgeport #4

Posted by Buckles at 10/21/2012 05:25:00 AM

1 comments:

Richard Reynolds said...

This scene is on the second floor of huge paint building as is the scene in photo No. 11.

I understand that the wagons were hoisted up from the ground floor by means of a crude elevator that was hand powered by a series of ropes and pulleys. Those sorts of elevators were common at the time. I worked in a chicken hatchery here in Atlanta in the summer of 1950 that had one of them. Unsafe as heck!

The Bridgeport quarters were a fire trap as witnessed by the many conflagrations there. The buildings were right on top of one another and wooden wagons were crammed up against one another outside. Add to that the flammable paint and solvents that were everywhere and you have a formula for disaster.

Little wonder that when RBBB moved to Sarasota the new quarters were spread out with lots of space between facilities.

23 October, 2012 00:05

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