old machine shop photo

[John B.]

For anyone who might be interested, I posted a picture of "St. Paul Machine Works" 1900 (St. Paul, Mn) at:
http://metalworking.com/DropBox/1900_spmw.jpg

John B.

P.S. I found this picture at the Minnesota Historical Society's web site.

[Wally]

Man looks pretty dark in there and whats that on the cieling? Coal soot?

[Steve_in_Mich]

There's the proof! One man at a lathe can support seven sitting on their hands [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif"%20alt="[/img]

Thanks John

[philinmt]

Well that looks like most of the shops up here in mt...Phil in Mt

[J_Tiers]

When I first looked at that, I wondered if that shop were in one of the old beer storage caves under the bluff.

That roof looked like it, but a cave would likely not be so flat on the ceiling.

Sure are a lot of folks standing around...what happened to that Swedish work ethic?

[spud]

just think that the super accurate machines we have today came from places like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!