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Photo of the Day

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Burned-out, abandoned paper mill in Cass, West Virginia. Cass is an interesting place, in a frozen-in-time sort of way.

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5 Responses to “Photo of the Day”

  1. #1 |  MacK |  June 1st, 2009 at 11:17 am

    If I was 12 I would play there for sure.

  2. #2 |  James D |  June 1st, 2009 at 11:59 am

    Having driven through West Virginia a lot, there seem to be a lot of these kind of things. My wife couldn’t get over how some of the cities look like the ‘mill’ is the entire town in some cases.

  3. #3 |  witless chum |  June 1st, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    Reminds me of a lot of places you still see in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, near where I grew up.

    The place was huge into copper and iron mining, peaking around the 1920s. It went gradually downhill until aroudn 1970, when it went off a cliff. There are still two iron mines going around Marquette, but that’s it. The last copper mine closed in the 1990s.

  4. #4 |  Mattocracy |  June 1st, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    Was this on that Life After People show?

  5. #5 |  Jon H |  June 2nd, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    We should bring some of those barefoot Bangladeshi shipbreakers to come in, crawl all over that thing, and reduce it to recyclable scrap.

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