Monday, February 28, 2011
Landmarks The Lauderdale Factories in the Early Days
Posted by Vance Lauderdale on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:30 PM
This is an early, undated view of the main dirigible factory outside Itta Bena, Mississippi. During the peak production years, the aluminum-fabricating machinery and hydrogen-processing equipment operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Plus there was a gift shop.
I believe the empty buildings are now used to store old Facebook posts and the URLs of dead websites. Such a waste.
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I was thinking that they housed indoor catfish ponds.... Itta Bena, is the home of the pond raised catfish industry.....
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Did you paint that yourself? On a saw blade? I do admire your contemporary rustic style.
Well great, thanks to the sentence, "I believe the empty buildings are now used to store old Facebook posts and the URLs of dead websites." I now have burned sinuses from snorting hot tea. Lawyers have been contacted.
So is this also where the "Archives" for your previous blogs are stored? If I go to one it seems to take several minutes to load up so I imagine them Mis'sippi folks is just a-runnin' through the archive looking for it?
What's most amazing is that the biggest seller in the gift shop, which still remains open, as I understand it, is coaster sets showing Elvis and Nixon together! (The same sets happen to be the biggest seller at the Nixon Library's gift shop.)
