Hi Joey,
Noticed that they have started work on the Cape Ann Tool Company building in Rockport so took these shots to help remember the building. Thought you may want to post some of them.
Cheers!
Nancy
Thanks for submitting these pics for the GMG community
http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com Do you get it?
Good Morning Gloucester 
Holy cow, knocked the windows out. Most awesome news I have heard in a long time. If anyone gets the info when they are going to dynamite the stack please post and GMG will be there to make a movie.
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This morning as I drove by, I saw the property closed off with chain link fence, with a tarp around the building first six feet up on the street. I think the demo will happen very soon, perhaps even on the weekend.
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So did the do some more demo today?
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The blue tarp is only in front of the concrete building, which I believe will be used in the development.
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So, what did Cape Ann Tool make? And what caused it’s decline?
Just curious. I always hate to see manufacturers shut down.
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The Tool company made many different metal products, for granite industry, including WW II and aerospace items. See EJ’s post: https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/did-you-know-cape-ann-tool-company/
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I remember hearing & feeling the thundrous sound of the Cape Ann Tool Company when I was seven years old and spent over night visits with aunt & uncle and their children. We would walk by the firing furnaces of the Cape Ann Tool Co. watching the drop forges striking red hot parts. The radiated heat was so intense that it repelled us to move away! All the men who worked on the forges lost their hearing.
A Sonar testing company operating in Lanesville had to stop their tests on sonar devices when the Tool Co. was in production due to the vibration that travel from Pigeon Cove to the water filled quarry in Lanesville.
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Man, I remember when I was a kid in the fifties, my mom and dad would put me and my brothers in the old Country Squire and drive over from Annisquam to Rockport for an ice cream cone. As we passed by the CATC we would see the mouths of the forges glowing red-hot in the gloom, hear the slam and bang of the presses, sparks flying, part of my childhood. Then silence and darkness for years and years. I always hoped it would be started up again, but I suppose it’s so full of asbestos that the only thing to be done with it is tarp it off, knock it down and take it away.
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I remember the Loud Banging of the drop forges when I was a kid going by there.
My father told me part of the engine of the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ was built there.
That was the plane that Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic.
The CATC has been an eyesore for decades. Almost anything will be an improvement,
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More pictures, Nancy?
As a little girl, I grew up in Pigeon Cove, and the pounding of those hammers were a familiar and friendly sound. My Mom was a nurse there in the 40’s and early 50’s. But, it’s time to move on…finally.
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I remember back in the 50’s when my father was a lobsterman and I would walk by the tool company on my way to the wharf and all the men would tell me not to get to close because it was dangerous and they would always give me there empty soda bottles so I could get candy
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I remember driving by the “Tool” in my early days on Cape Ann when I lived on Rocky Neck. The sound of the drop presses operating was so loud it was startling as I drove by. No demo activity this weekend, but I think this coming week it will be removed, except for the concrete structure in the middle, which has a blue tarp on the street side.
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Somebody, Fred, you’r driving by in an hour, post a photo of how it’s going. Did they remove any of that orange stuff?
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Around noon, no visible changes. A crew of five was sitting on some rocks next to the harbor, wearing their optic yellow vests. For my latest info and photos, visit my FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/BodinHistoricPhoto
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