I saw the program earlier this week (and yes most of these programs are repeated at some point).It was a very large factory with a clock tower that kept the whole town 'in sink'. The factory buildings are (or have been) made into condos (I think is was).The SLC was in business at least until 1957 (the enployee bowling alley was sanctioned by the ABA thru '57). It was said that they were rather forward thinking and had many employee activities and benifits.The premise of the show is that the salvage com. had only one day to salvage what they found and wanted from the buildings. The clock tower was being kept and given historic statis.Only 1 of the massive lace machines (made in Nottinham) was still in the building, there had been several more in a room 3 stories high. The salvagers did find the drive belts that ran the machines but didn't see any value in them, the machine remaining was too large to deal with in only one day, and they only saw it as scrap metal.They did find a pair of vault doors which they took and then made into a gun safe. The nice touch here was that the fellow making the cabinet mounted an advertisment for the SLC and along with the salvage story mounted it inside the gun safe for historic purposes.When I mentioned seeing the show to Nancy Evans she said she had more info on the Co. and would share it with me later. That is about all I remember of the show at this point, but I did wish I could have been there. Lorri F, Graham, WA. USA > > Below is a link to a website for a television series called "Abandoned", > which I'm told aired recently on the History Channel. A group of > people go into abandoned buildings to salvage whatever they can. This > particular episode was about the Scranton Lace Company in Pennsylvania, > which was in business for 105 years and claimed to be the world's > largest producer of 'Nottingham' Lace. Some of the lace machines are > from the 1890s. (I regret I didn't see the programme myself, but I will > be looking out for it.) > > Scranton Lace Company - Scranton, PA > The Digital Mirage Blog:- > > http://wiseminds.com/thedigitalmirage/?p=136 > > Note: there are a great many photographs on the web site, so it takes > longer than usual to download. > > Linda Walton, > http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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