Beautiful Industry Essex Shipbuilding Museum Truck 4:50AM 12/29/08

Beautiful Industry- Keep Ernestina Sailing?

I was at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum where I spotted this “Keep Ernestina Sailing” sticker.  That must be one old sticker because it’s been a while as far as I can tell since that beautiful old sled has been under sail.

Gloucester Doors- Marine Railways

Gloucester Doors- Marine Railways

Beautiful Industry- Cape Pond Ice Industrial Elevator

This industrial elevator is capable of lifting palletloads of ice up and down.  That saves a whole lot of manual labor.

Starfish Underside

It’s Natural – It’s Beautiful – It’s All Around Us

All We Have To Do Is Open Our Eyes

Starfish Underside, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Beautiful Industry- Cape Pond Ice

Old School Baby!  Our Winch Heads are horizontal.  This one at Cape Pond Ice Stands Vertical. Ours are also driven by electic motors.  This one is belt driven.

These things are heavy heavy duty.  I can’t even imagine what type of trauma it took to take that notch of steel out of the top edge.  It had to be something massive coming down on it.  I mean really, really massive.

Gloucester Doors- Marine Railways

Beautiful Industry- Propeller Tree

The folks at The Gloucester Marine Railways put their own Beautiful Industry Christmas Tree  together mad out of propellers.

Gloucester Doors- Cape Pond Ice

That’s Old School Baby!  Part V Video will be up at 9:00AM

Gloucester Doors- Cape Pond Ice, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Fisherman Statue Ice Sculpture Cape Pond Ice

It’s a sculpture of a sculpture!  This particular ice sculpture has been hanging around frozen inside Cape Pond Ice for four years.  It is shown on the tours that they give.   Part IV video is coming at 9:00AM

Beautiful Industry- Cape Pond Ice

I’ve got to get back into Cape Pond Ice as my camera battery shit the bed about half way through.  There’s so much more I want to capture

Cape Pond Ice Martini Funnel

This Martini Funnel breaks down to three pieces the top, bowl, the stem, and the base.  The Vodka or Gin gets poured in the top of the bowl and whooshes down through the ice into your glass (in the beginning of the night when everyone is behaved) or mouth(at the end of the night when everyone is hammered).

Cape Pond Ice Martini Funnel, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Gloucester Doors- Cape Pond Ice

While I was at Cape Pond Ice taking pictures I got about 4 nice videos and a bunch of pictures but then ran out of juice on the battery of the camera before I got to floor three.  This door is inside to the one heated room inside the facility.

Gloucester Doors- Cape Pond Ice, originally uploaded by captjoe06.