[Hank70SS]

I'll let you know when it's going to hit Ebay for cheap. Swingline staplers, scissors, tape dispensers, pens, pencils, markers, 3-hole punches, etc. Also network switches, monitor/keyboard/mouse switches, keyboards, mice (mouses), hard drives, etc.

They're making us home based workers and moving all of our lab equipment to another facility. They've been laying off people for years so there are office supplies and hardware laying around everywhere. We've been cleaning out the last few days and looking at all this stuff. Chris, a coworker, and I look at something then each other and say "Ebay". It's crazy, most of this stuff will end up in a dumpster or they'll get 10 cents a pound from some company to clean it all out.

I'm just talking about the 5th floor and a little piece of the 4th floor. The rest of the 4th floor and all of the 3rd floor were shutdown years ago. There are also 3 more buildings connected to the main building via breezeways. Two of those buildings are shutdown.

Sad, this place is a piece of history. The main building was designed by Albert Kahn and built in 1938, 600’ long, 100’ wide, 5 stories and all brick. 14’ ceilings, 93 steps to the 5th floor, I know I’ve counted them, the center stairwell is 10’ wide. Floors are 14” thick reinforced concrete. Also has its own power plant, they use to generate their own electricity and steam heat in the power plant, connected to the main building by an underground tunnel. Train tracks use to come right up to the building to deliver coal to the power plant, it was a rural area when the plant was built. The smoke stack from the power plant was a landmark and used by pilots landing at the small airport in Plymouth, MI.
The center tower section of the building houses the elevator shafts. One small passenger elevator and two freight elevators, the kind you can pull a 4 door pickup into. They had to pull the motor from one last week, it weighs about 4,000 lbs. At the top of the tower is a water tank used to catch rain water. No electricity, gas or water in that area when the built the plant.
Anyway, just a little history of the place. Sad to remember its glory days and see it fading away today.