loadingdock photos on Flickr

loading dock doors. How many people must have left their mark and passed through these doors over the years, yet only these traces are currently visible.

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Shuffle boards by Frost Urban Photography

loading door by radiostaticstar

the open loading door to the dock of Twin City Foods.

Williamsburg, Domino Sugar by mapleboughs

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Across An Empty Lot by Jeremy Brooks

2003-12-19_WH-02 by John Fuggi

Loading dock #13. Warehouse in West Haven, Connecticut, USA. December 19, 2003.

SIDE-BY-SIDE CHARMING WAREHOUSES!! by Tim Kiser

These warehouse twins' respective cutenesses ought to be driving you gaga. More and more nowadays, wall-dwelling plantlife are calling the warehouses "home."

The building's record in the GNAHRGIS database declares its architectural style to be "Spanish Colonial Revival." Okay!

That same database record also variously says the building was erected circa 1907 and circa 1900-1915, and identifies it as the "Sineath Wholesale Grocery Co.-Office of M. L. Strong." Meanwhile, the official documentation of the Valdosta Commercial Historic District says it's from circa 1900 and identifies it as the "South Ashley Street Warehouse."

Well, *I* have looked at the Library of Congress's online collection of Sanborn fire insurance maps, and *I* have determined that the building is from circa 1912: It is absent from the 1911 map, and is first depicted on the 1912 map, labeled "from plans" and identified as a warehouse for the National Packing Company. It is shown on the 1921 map as the United Grocery Company, a wholesale grocer. Thank me for my research $$$.

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, the "South Ashley Street Warehouse," a/k/a the Sineath Wholesale Grocery Co. (a "contributing property" in the Valdosta Commercial Historic District, 83000234 and 02001633 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the east side of South Ashley Street, south of East Savannah Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Lowndes (county) (2000383)

• Valdosta (2024591)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• copings (300048827)

• corbels (300003610)

• dark pink (300126067)

• downspouts (300052560)

• historic buildings (300008063)

• historic districts (300000737)

• loading docks (300004279)

• oblique views (300015503)

• parapets (300002717)

• Polypodiopsida (class) (300375590)

• Spanish Colonial Revival (300018159)

• warehouses (300007722)

• white (color) (300129784)

• window guards (300045475)

Wikidata items:

• 21 November 2021 (Q69306250)

• 1910s in architecture (Q11185482)

• contributing property (Q76321820)

• ferns (Q80005)

• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)

• November 21 (Q3023)

• November 2021 (Q61312917)

• ornamental tree (Q33249028)

• Treaty of Fort Jackson (Q1466527)

• Valdosta Commercial Historic District (Q29094031)

• Valdosta, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area (Q7909460)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Buildings—Georgia (sh91006323)

• Grocery trade (sh85057399)

• Historic districts—Georgia (sh95010323)

• Urban plants (sh85141312)

• Wholesale trade (sh85146575)

Polaroid Softtone Spectra_060417_300_ 89 North Yakima WAa556 by *Snap_Shot*

Do not bump by Jer*ry

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by Taylor Fitz-Gibbon

Not the photo I wanted, but a security guard called the cops and we had to leave right after getting there. Garrett Blair ollies.

E. Toole Avenue, downtown Tucson, Ariz. by Dan Macy

Warehouse by hbailliebrown

Snaps on a video shoot for a client.

Commercial Safety College by Douglas Smith

_DSC5559 by JR Goleno

loadingdocks by pao-boy

Loading docks at night

Dock Kitties 2 by Fish Toasted

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Having overcome their initial disbelief, the kittens strike a more curious pose: perhaps the human trespassers will purchase some of their rubber shingles?

DSC_8301 by Lena