Wm. Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Co.
After we had explored the foggy power plant last month we ate lunch then went searching for something new to us. We found this old truck depot. The back part had an old Dollar General building that was almost demolished. Because of the fence around this place we knew it would soon meet the same fate. It was amazingly easy to get inside now that there was a large luxurious hole to walk through. Upon entering we were struck by a terrible odor. Something inside here was very rotten but it didn't look like anything was left except random trash. Once we got more into the building the smell went away. Back before November '10 this place was filled full of abandoned ice cream trucks for some reason. Unfortunately they had removed them before we got here. We spent about 30 minutes exploring this place, nothing special really. I was interested at the cranes that were inside here. I noticed one said USN on it as in U.S. Navy. Due to it's age it surely could have been some kind of Naval building. On our way out of the building we noticed the cause of the stink. There were huge industrial refrigerators with the power cut off (for god knows how long) and they were entirely filled full of buckets of cottage cheese. I poked my head inside and got one whiff of it and almost started to throw up. I have never experienced that before in my entire life. Due to this amazing stink I was never actually able to get a photo of the inside or else I may have died.
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9. Always a lonely chair...
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14. These books were no longer needed after Glenn Beck had restored honor...
15. Dancin' Raisin...
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After searching google for a while I finally came up with the original history of this place. Long before it was a rancid pasta and cottage cheese trucking depot it was the William Cramp and Sons Shipbuilding Co. They made ships and submarines here up until the end of WWII. This was part of a far more massive complex that stretched all the way out to the water. Now this single building is all that is left of that complex. Once the wrecking ball hits there will be no evidence a ship building company that employed 10,000+ people ever existed.
History...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cramp_and_Sons
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/cramp.htm
http://wikimapia.org/8906130/Former-Site-of-William-Cramp-Sons-Shipbuilding-Company
http://www.flickr.com/photos/forgottenplanet