WestlakeTech
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ok, think I may have had the weirdest find at Westlake. Was under the seating risers in the Black Box yesterday.... found a pair of Blue Jeans... I win
ok, think I may have had the weirdest find at Westlake. Was under the seating risers in the Black Box yesterday.... found a pair of Blue Jeans... I win
Not weird, but really cool.
Found the original lighting to the 1928 theatre, back when all the sockets were screw-base. Not in the house, but under it. They re-raked the house, creating a dead space... and storage.
Found a ladder of death- 40' feet straight up, no cage, old iron bars.
Found a pit of death- 70' down, attic to sub-sub-basement, no guards, no tie-offs, just enough time to say goodbye (my guess was the pit was part of the now abandoned structural air handling system).
Two 6' diameter CAST IRON fans... hanging 50' above the house floor (above the ceiling, next to the previous pit of death).
Hemp-reinforced plaster chunks from remodeling.
Two-phase power equipment (brownies for those who know what this is).
Gold-pressed paint.
A sink. Behind a wall. Still connected. Attached to another wall.
Arc rheostats for the disused arc lighting system.
Enough dangerous electrical equipment to cause any electrician's head to explode.
Not weird, but really cool.
Found the original lighting to the 1928 theatre, back when all the sockets were screw-base. Not in the house, but under it. They re-raked the house, creating a dead space... and storage.
Found a ladder of death- 40' feet straight up, no cage, old iron bars.
Found a pit of death- 70' down, attic to sub-sub-basement, no guards, no tie-offs, just enough time to say goodbye (my guess was the pit was part of the now abandoned structural air handling system).
Two 6' diameter CAST IRON fans... hanging 50' above the house floor (above the ceiling, next to the previous pit of death).
Hemp-reinforced plaster chunks from remodeling.
Two-phase power equipment (brownies for those who know what this is).
Gold-pressed paint.
A sink. Behind a wall. Still connected. Attached to another wall.
Arc rheostats for the disused arc lighting system.
Enough dangerous electrical equipment to cause any electrician's head to explode.
There are two of those rings on a wall backstage at the James A Law auditorium in Schurman Hall at the Cornell University Vet School.Visiting the Oscar Meyer Theater in Madison (an opera house) I opened a floor pocket expecting to find a lighting circuit. there was a large cast iron ring secured into the concrete sub floor. I was told it was an elephant ring so you could secure your pachyderm during the performance.
We often joke about it zip-lining from the balcony to the stage...
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