We used to go there with my family, Gramma - I just loved that place! A unique place for vendors and stores, had lie warehouse chic vibe to it, ahead of it's time. Thanks for the memory.
I wish that there were some way that they could at least convert some of these historic planes into museums of themselves, where guests could go on board and relive those long gone days. Maybe at least one of each type of plane, the 707 through the 747, DC-10, Lockheed 1011, instead of tearing them down like old condemned buildings.
I wonder why these fuselage hulks are kept and not just scrapped and sold off as scrap metal? I mean, they scrapped one 747 fuselage that was kept here prior to the arrival of the United 747-400 (there’s a video from 2016 which shows this 747, which was operated by Northwest). So why not just scrap them all?
The plant closed because the new owners AES did not and never intended to invest in upgrading the plant. They purchased all the prior utilities plants and ran into the ground.
The plant did not close because of asbestos. It closed because it was an old stoker type fired plant. 1940' technology and not as efficient as the more modern pulverized coal plants. It had emission's complaint additions for it's time.
Fantastic video. Did you need to get permission for flying your drone and is it at all possible to get inside the gates at the airport for some kind of tour?
I remember going there in 1982 when i was going to school in Utica. It was fun to go shopping there and I was fascinated by the building and it's history. To bad it has been destroyed now
That 'pond' at 0:53 used to be, to my knowledge back when I was 7 (late 90s) was filled with a TON of fish. I used to go there and feed the fish growing up.
