Re: Dystopos' comment: The building you like is the former offices of Ingalls Iron Co., a fabricator of steel products and the parent of Ingalls Shipbuilding.
As we were driving away from the abandoned building yesterday, I noticed the big letters -- I N G A L L S -- on its facade. And when I got home, the first thing I did was google "Ingalls building Birmingham," which gave me a link to a Northrop Grumman page and another that mentioned Ingalls Shipbuilding. And these caused me to remember something.
But I wanted to check with my dad today to make sure I remembered correctly before I said anything about it here. Turns out I did: My grandfather ("Papa") worked most of his adult life for Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.
How neat and strange is that? I love it when the most unexpected connections transpire.
3 comments:
I have to admit that I love the idiot of going into a former defense contractor's facility.
all kinds of cool stuff might still be in there. woo! fun!
shhssssh meant to say idea not idiot
darnit!
well get yr butt down here, j. we'll round us up a posse...
:)
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