Submitted by FGoose t3_10qrsab in philadelphia
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Full-Wafer357 t1_j6rmyfm wrote
I can smell this image
enn_sixty_four t1_j6rotpp wrote
"No one lives in the slums because they want to. It's like this train. It can only go where the tracks take it."
ouralarmclock t1_j6rq23q wrote
Didn’t realize we lived in Midgar!
nitronomicon t1_j6rqp9h wrote
Blade Runner
GreatWhiteRapper t1_j6rro5t wrote
CheapBoxOWine t1_j6rs2bd wrote
Is that the toast smell?
CheapBoxOWine t1_j6rs5zh wrote
With the Eagles Green image that was shared last week and this... yeah, we're in Midgar.
Seems there ain't no gettin' offa this train we on.
phillyfan488 t1_j6rsb27 wrote
Remember when they torn down the school right next to it so it didn’t poison anymore kids.
Environmental_Web505 t1_j6rt8pw wrote
Looks like Batman should be lurking around here taking out numerous henchmen
hobby4bkind t1_j6rtpr6 wrote
Love the composition of this! The barbwire in foreground. The wispy clouds. Its a whole thing!!! I too can smell this picture! Good capture brother!
licensedtojill t1_j6rttml wrote
Everyone who grows up in bridesburg has asthma too, I swear.
ResidentComplaint19 t1_j6rvjdj wrote
I always get a weird plastic smell
Full-Wafer357 t1_j6rw0qd wrote
The toast smell is the La Colombe roaster warehouse.
FGoose OP t1_j6rxmzl wrote
Holy shit yeah!
randompittuser t1_j6ryppo wrote
It just kept poisoning all us kids that went to the boys & girls club.
Jawny_Appleseed t1_j6rzgsu wrote
Might also be Ellis Coffee, right down the block from Honeywell.
ewyorksockexchange t1_j6s023e wrote
Shoutout to that poster like 2 years ago who couldn’t understand why they wouldn’t allow him to take a tour of this place like he did at the Dixie cup factory.
bottomfeeder_ t1_j6s0jjl wrote
It smells like a braking train
CockercombeTuff t1_j6s2u4f wrote
Is there a plant in Bridesburg as well? The one in Port Richmond is a bit far from this plant.
Also, it smells like burnt popcorn to me, but not as acrid. I've come to really enjoy it on my runs.
Ctfwest t1_j6s2vwe wrote
Been a while but back in the 80’s my parents would take us up and done 95 to visit family every other weekend.
That smell. 🤢
Full-Wafer357 t1_j6s3hxy wrote
This is the correct answer
cruzincoyote t1_j6s5qut wrote
The picture is Bridesburg. It's right off Bridge street.
Kronos6948 t1_j6s67jg wrote
It'll always be Rohm and Haas to me.
LowSleep2566 t1_j6s8ka0 wrote
I was terrified of this place as small child. I would freak out and cry hysterically. My parents would tell me that it was 'the Circus' to try to calm me down.... which only extended my fear towards the Circus. 😂 80's Parenting.
ewyorksockexchange t1_j6s8tpe wrote
AdvanSix just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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themanpotato t1_j6s9tmu wrote
Haha “the circus” makes it even more scary. My dad always told me they made paint there.
lordredsnake t1_j6sa042 wrote
Honeywell doesn't exactly have the best track record for containing environmental hazards:
>The United States Environmental Protection Agency states that no corporation has been linked to a greater number of Superfund toxic waste sites than has Honeywell.[184] Honeywell ranks 44th in a list of US corporations most responsible for air pollution, releasing more than 4.25 million kg (9.4 million pounds) of toxins per year into the air.[185]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell
And their impact is probably still being underestimated:
Phooey-Kablooey t1_j6sapzm wrote
Used to call it the Slinky factory as a kid.
CockercombeTuff t1_j6scjc0 wrote
I'm aware. Did you see the comment I was responding to? I may have used plant twice, but the context is La Colombe. The person said the toast smell is the La Colombe plant ("roaster warehouse"), which is in Port Richmond and nowhere near smelling distance from this industrial plant.
AFirefighter11 t1_j6sd6uk wrote
I can smell this photo.
ewyorksockexchange t1_j6searg wrote
So it’s technically a different company now (AdvanSix), but to your point they spilled 2,000 gallons of phenol last year, some of which possibly entered the city sewer system.
WillFerrellsGutFold t1_j6sgocy wrote
I can smell this picture.
art-man_2018 t1_j6sh6ya wrote
r/dystopia
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licensedtojill t1_j6sq6gx wrote
The charter school in the arsenal??
KnightMareInc t1_j6sshqr wrote
I was told as a kid the school closed down because of an explosion at the plant. They tore down the school decades later for the 95 expansion.
topredder t1_j6svfow wrote
Maybe they can retire up in Bristol where the air smells like paint.
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iverson555 t1_j6t13jn wrote
I work here and this place also makes me cry.
piper4hire t1_j6t6ljv wrote
feels like the explosion was just yesterday
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pianomanzano t1_j6tdfhl wrote
Did a co-op here while at Drexel back when this plant was part of Sunoco, my job was to detect leaks at every single valve, joint. Climbed up all the tanks, vessels, and distillation towers to detect for leaks. It was a fun job climbing up and down and everything here, but man was it scary if there was actually a leak anywhere. Phenol is a nasty chemical!
mikeygaw t1_j6tiq6y wrote
Ellis Coffee has a plant on Bridge between Richmond and Garden streets.
sgarst t1_j6tlnby wrote
Jealous! Of the climbing, not so much the phenol.
Aromat_Junkie t1_j6trm8m wrote
I feel like Eddie Dean could have said this as well
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ADFC t1_j6tuwll wrote
Rohm & Haas sat further back by the bridesburg boys and clubs club and was demolished in the late 2000s.
roddomusprime t1_j6tytpa wrote
Whenever I drive non locals by here, I tell them it's a water gun factory. That's why it smells like the inside of a water gun.
Kronos6948 t1_j6tz7t4 wrote
I haven't lived in Bridesburg since the late 90's...I didn't know they knocked it down and rebuilt it.
RealPrinceJay t1_j6u15bx wrote
Should be used in the next Batman movie lol
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ADFC t1_j6u7hdd wrote
This is a separate facility owned by a few companies then Sunoco, then Honeywell, which then spun off into what is now AdvanSix. It's the one immediately adjacent to 95. This plant has been producing phoenol since the 50s and is actually one of the largest phenol producing facilities in the country.
Rohm & Haas sat more back towards the mouth of old Frankford creek on the Delaware and was even more massive. This plant closed in 2009 and the location is currently used to store vehicles. A NY-based developer bought the plot in 2020 but haven't seen any updates since. I used to always mix these up myself.
Not much left of Philly's rich chemical past.
passing-stranger t1_j6u952f wrote
I always loved passing this as a kid. I even liked the smell (?!) and would roll the windows down to take a deep whiff until my mother said to stop giving myself cancer. Unfortunately she was probably right about that one lol. Sucks growing up and learning the way things are. Honeywell would gladly kill us all if it helps their bottom line
p_britt35 t1_j6ue43z wrote
I can smell this picture.
Sagemasterba t1_j6ujndj wrote
It also has the world's largest cumene oxidizer. Whatever that is. The others kept blowing up lol. That phenol is nasty stuff, it gives permanent scarring burns that make you look like Drax the Destroyer. The in-house guys take these scars almost as an initiation. I swear there are just puddles of leaking benzene all over the place, to the point you need full B gear just to be in the plant. They also have a 0 lightning stand down policy. If I can afford a packet of Ramen I won't take a job in that place.
Sagemasterba t1_j6ukojb wrote
It's not like you think. The amount of safety gear is pretty outrageous. B gear just to be there, plus normal work clothes, sometimes a respirator and always a harness for 100% tie off, but check that because all of the chemicals just eat right thru them. Also all the stuff you are climbing and walking on is dang near rusted through, piping hot, and slippery. F-that place!
TellYouWhatitShwas t1_j6um3oh wrote
I've done work there, place is ridiculous. There are steam leaks like space shuttles taking off. Abandoned sections that feel like a picked over post-apocalyptic wasteland. The phenol will burn the pigment right out of your skin.
Rtg327gej t1_j6umr51 wrote
What do you guys produce there?
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SlackerDegree t1_j6uokdc wrote
I have good memories of Community Safety Day here back when it was Allied Chemical. I was too young to remember, but my Aunt came to evacuate us when there was an “incident” and everything outside was covered in a white ash.
SlackerDegree t1_j6uoqpr wrote
I’ve been told by my husband that it smells like glue
philly_bits t1_j6urpar wrote
Yeah living there when they went isn't fun. Smells kind of like a pool, though I know it's not bleach.
philly_bits t1_j6urrl2 wrote
And which the news barely, barely covered
iverson555 t1_j6uuir2 wrote
Mostly a chemical called Phenol.. also Acetone
Rtg327gej t1_j6uvp8e wrote
Ok, thanks.
clickstops t1_j6v838s wrote
It’s amazing how things we take absolutely for granted require these immense manufacturing facilities. Pretty cool.
clickstops t1_j6v98jq wrote
“Good memories” he says
pervysage_1992 t1_j6v9g2o wrote
What's the stuff that this sprays onto us as we drive past it on 95? It kinda smells like chlorine
Probability-Bot t1_j6vfjk4 wrote
Always called it Gotham City...
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TheRealMaxGains t1_j6wfih4 wrote
I went on a date with this girl a while ago. She told me to kiss her where it stinks, so I took her to Bridesburg.
FGoose OP t1_j6x0afb wrote
Cancer. It sprays cancer.
phillyfan488 t1_j6x0fyw wrote
That’s so fucking funny, I always thought the circus was the gas facility off of castor east or Richmond st. The big ol dome with the flame coming out. Same shitty late to my though lol
phillyfan488 t1_j6x0lxw wrote
Nah, there used to be an old stone school on the east side of state rd under where the highway is now, might still be rubble there from it im Not sure
saul_weinstien t1_j6xt2l0 wrote
The brain damage caused by the fumes of this place is probably why Bridesburg is filled with MAGA chuds.
libananahammock t1_j6yttyx wrote
My uncle Bob worked here!
licensedtojill t1_j6zfbbv wrote
Oh yeah I remember that school, I thought they tore it down for the 95 expansion tho, hadn’t been in use for at least 30 years.
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SomeOtherOrder t1_j707lc0 wrote
I knew someone who’s parents told them it was Disney World when she was a kid and she fuckin believed them for a bit.
Richardthisisyerdad t1_j73w34p wrote
Isn't called Advansix now?
themanpotato t1_j6rlv6n wrote
I always looked forward to passing this place when I was a kid. On the way into the city we’d all search for the giant Sunoco sign by Allegheny and then on the way home in the dark we’d be in wonder at all the steaming pipes and bright lights of the plant. It seemed so mysterious and intimidating.