Abandoned Model Paint Factory, Rockford, IL - Homeless Living Inside

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Exploring an Abandoned Model Paint Factory in Rockford Illinois with Homeless Living Inside
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@wigginlocomotiveworks8199 Год назад

I worked in that building from 2000 until they shut it down in 2002. That conference room you saw on the third floor? We watched the second plane hit the Trade Center tower live from an old projection screen TV on 9/11. It's a shame to see this old building like this.

@ConsidertheCrows 8 месяцев назад

I worked there in 95-96 and again 98-99. I didn't know they permanently closed in 2002. Wow. That soon after I left for college.

@grandchampion4u 2 года назад

I had been inside it when I was a kid. Went there to get a part for my model car. Wow this is sad.

@Nan-59 2 года назад

Very sad indeed.

@Tolson2024 Год назад

its sad to see these buildings like this my home town thx for sharing

@geeb5360 5 месяцев назад

me too!

@gregkrueger331 Год назад

I used to work for testors but at the aerosol line across the street. I literally watched a shooting happen right there one night. There used to be an old man that was the caretaker of that building. He lived in the building alone to watch it, he passed and it was absorbed by the hood.

@birdsndog5932 9 месяцев назад

Sounds like Rockford. (From an area resident.)

@dawnmcpheters6722 2 года назад

The old Testor's models and paint factory. Now a part of Rust-o-leium.

@Jj-ko1zp 2 года назад

The building would make cool lofts. How beautiful. Aren't you ever afraid of falling threw the floor or someone coming out of no where?

@decayingmidwest 2 года назад

I believe the floors were concrete so pretty safe. As for someone jumping out, it's always a risk.

@Jj-ko1zp 2 года назад

Be safe out there Matt. Not for ghosts but for people and stuff you could be breathing in or walking on.

@815EastRockfordILLnoi5 2 года назад

If it was chicago or Milwaukee it would've been turned into a loft or sumn. Rockford behind a lil

@birdsndog5932 9 месяцев назад

@@815EastRockfordILLnoi5- it’s also the areas those buildings tend to be in. Nobody will be investing that kind of money there any time soon.

@geeb5360 5 месяцев назад

i grew up in rockford. i explored that building in 2020. so cool to see on youtube

@BarritolocoDiablo 11 дней назад

When they shut down, i got a full truck bed of cases of model paints. Probably 100 cans of spray paint too.

@woodch 10 месяцев назад

I went in there to repair their computers once, and it was in a serious state then-- woulda been mid-late 90's? That building has been falling down for like 50 years now.

@takumifujiwara7160 2 года назад

Great video dude 🤙

@decayingmidwest 2 года назад

Thank you

@christhefampederson2324 2 года назад

Awesome video bro !

@decayingmidwest 2 года назад

Thank you

@mr.garlicman3134 14 дней назад

I am from Rockford illinois

@spike3822 2 года назад

Rockford,ill !!! I knew it

@lostvlog6857 2 года назад

I ran into a squatter sleeping on the 3rd floor here about 10 days ago.

@decayingmidwest 2 года назад

Are they friendly?

@lostvlog6857 2 года назад

@@decayingmidwest yeah it was OK, it was freezing cold in the teens, he was covered in a bunch of blankets sleeping. Seemed puzzled that someone would be filming in there. I've been in here several times that was the first time I seen someone.

@GhostiOfficial 2 года назад

I WAS IN HERE NOT LONG AGO!!!

@ireneedmonds4712 Год назад

I wonder if there are any before pictures of these places

@Pepepipipopo 2 года назад

Spent the video expecting someone to jump you. Luckily it didn't happened. Stay safe and great work!

@gabrielfreeman518 Год назад

I just think of how much adhesive is in these places. You always need adhesives for crafting.

@HILLBILLYinHELL 10 месяцев назад

I live in Rockford and it looks as bad inside as it does from the outside. Sad but that's life I guess.

@bmaines78 Год назад

Wow,I used to work there in 1999.

@56cadd 8 месяцев назад

Hi, you ever work with Ron strawbridge that was in mixing then packaging ?

@aFRANK. 2 года назад

You should explore the Barber-Colman Company factory in Rockford

@trentplona3137 Год назад

is it still there

@LastStitch 10 месяцев назад

Ya the Old Read Chat wood building

@docilemania 10 месяцев назад

My dad worked there in the 70's

@stringlarson1247 9 месяцев назад

That and the original W.F. John Barnes factory. Much of the factory along the river So. of State Street. It was torn down. My father was a tool and die maker/machinist there. I salvaged some large blueprints from the 60s from my mom's house a few years ago. I worked for Barber-Coleman at the Loves Park plant around 1980. Also worked at a couple of other plants in the area in my teens and delivered machine tool parts to so many of the big factories and got to walk around the factory floors. The different machines were amazing. One of the coolest places I work at was Ingersoll Milling on the north side. They built giant milling and boring machines for machining engines for large ships.

@leejohn8993 7 месяцев назад

@@stringlarson1247 Did you Ron Ruffner? I ran around with 6 or 7 of the guys that worked there.( AT Ingersoll ) I also at Barber-Coleman for a short time in the paint room. I was there when they wouldn't let us go because of to much snow.

@GIowy 7 месяцев назад

Is it true that this building holds an entrance to the tunnels that lead through all of rockford?

@noglawillfollowyou1895 2 года назад

Yes first

@susanolson7442 10 месяцев назад

It’s funny how only us midwest folks say “Big Wigs”. Lol

@stringlarson1247 9 месяцев назад

I grew up near there and bought many little jars of their paint for making model airplanes, cars, etc. No permanent dain bramage from breathing the fumes from the paint and glue *cough* There is so much potential for that solid old building. Sad. I was last in Rockford a couple of years ago and drove around looking for old factories I either worked in or delivered machine tool parts. So many are either abandoned or have been leveled. What a waste. I was in my teens in the 70s and witnessed the beginning of the gutting/collapse of US industry. Massive failure of Capitalism. Sad.

@birdsndog5932 9 месяцев назад

Manufacturing has kind of withered here.

@stringlarson1247 9 месяцев назад

@birdsndog5932 well, you've hit your quota for max understatement for this week. :)

@birdsndog5932 9 месяцев назад

@@stringlarson1247 - was trying to be polite, diplomatic. It is so sad.

@stringlarson1247 9 месяцев назад

@birdsndog5932 heh.. quite depressing. I live on the south side of Chicago . So much of the same here.