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This abandoned KA-Bar fire log factory in Brawley, Calif. is currently being torn down. This is one of the remaining rooms, a storage room of some sort. There is a hole in the floor that leads to a basement, at least twelve feet deep, covered in trash, mud, and possibly sewage. This is why it is important to take a buddy and a flashlight along when photographing abandoned places (I had neither one of those). Had I fallen into that hole, nobody would have found me for a long time, if ever.
The factory was originally established in 1909 to produce the tissue paper used to wrap the oranges produced in the region. It closed in 2001.
Our friends with the ninja driving skills, rikshaw driver Sabhir and his friends, took us to see a paper factory he thought we might like. He was right, too - amazing to watch them making really thick heavyweight or incredibly light and fragile paper. Much of it had petals or pieces of fabric mashed into the paper, and then a great deal was beautifully block printed with intricate patterns. I bought about twenty sheets in the end, (at a total cost of about £2.30) but like a loon managed to leave them in our hotel when we left for Rajasthan.
Still, a nifty place.
Our friends with the ninja driving skills, rikshaw driver Sabhir and his friends, took us to see a paper factory he thought we might like. He was right, too - amazing to watch them making really thick heavyweight or incredibly light and fragile paper. Much of it had petals or pieces of fabric mashed into the paper, and then a great deal was beautifully block printed with intricate patterns. I bought about twenty sheets in the end, (at a total cost of about £2.30) but like a loon managed to leave them in our hotel when we left for Rajasthan.
Still, a nifty place.