Yup, that time of year again, the artists open their studios at the Brewery. This time I dragged Joel along – on the pretext that we’d have a cocktail and fun conversation with Teale and Marshal after the show.
Here is proof that he was there. He did admit that this is something he’d never do if I hadn’t dragged him along. He also said it was a fun afternoon-evening.
The Brewery is right next to the 5 freeway. Something interesting here, there is some barbed wire right next to a fence that is cut and broken through. Something we see all over the city, especially next to freeways – where the vagrants build tent upon tent.
The large smokestack, the two buildings beyond are the Edison steam powered electric plant (1902) and the Iron works, the lower building. As we walked around, we went up to that top story of the Edison building, a lovely couple has a crazy loft up there, see the very large window. we looked out that that window.
The view from that window – towards downtown. Jason O’sliva is an author and he wrote some children’s books that I am hoping are right up Shira’ Alley. So I bought the first book, in hopes that she likes it and I will buy more.
We are also looking down on the Piggyback Yard. Owned by southern Pacific, this is where many of the containers come from up from the port. Right next door is a huge UPS facility, so maybe a lot of the goods then get loaded on their trucks and distributed. Also, about 2 years ago there was a scandal about a massive drop of Amazon packages, just off the tracks – that too happened here. In there left side, you can see the frame that lifts the containers onto the back of big rigs – hence – piggyback
Another view, from the bridge, here you can clearly see the piggyback machine. The city would love to take over this land, either build an Olympic Village or a park – problem is – Southern Pacific really isn’t interested in selling.
Looking towards downtown over the UPS yard.
The bridge. We may not have walked a lot of steps, but we did climb up and down a lot of stairs.
Back on the ground, looking up at the bridge from a different angle and seeing the moon rising.
There was people watching, I could have taken so many more pictures, in many cases the people were more colorful than the art.
The massive climbing wall inside the old ironworks. This is just a part of it.
This guard house stands between the Edison and ironworks and other buildings on the property. It was all heavy industrial buildings – at some point a Brewery took over some of the building and gave the complex it’s name.
Some art. We did end up having a lovely time with Teale, Marshal and their guests, but then as the sun went down it also got cold so we went home. Happy for a fun local adventure.
Leah