Hello Steemit! I wanted to post these photos I took of our old family business which was run out of business by a larger competitor after 50+ years. It was a pan factory, or more specifically where we cleaned, straightened, and applied a silicon glaze to major bakeries in the western US. My grandfather actually started this business, and my father and uncles continued with it for better or worse. It was old school, industrial gritty work. My father had me working over there probably from the time I was 12 or 13 even if it was just painting a fence for some money. And I worked there on and off into my 20's. We had family friends or friends of friends who would work for awhile then go back on the road somewhere. After getting essentially priced out of the market we had to sell to our competitor which was probably the best thing for my old man(he's 70+). The building's been gutted now, machines and scrap metal sold off. Still haunts me to look back at them and it's only been two years.
This is the washing machine where someone would chuck pans into after they had gone through the carbon stripping process from the behind tanks.
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Opposite looking view. Big oven to both bake dry the pans and to cure the silicon glaze.
The glaze machine. This is where the silicon coating was sprayed onto the pans before going in the ovens and curing the release coating. You won't find these in Kalifornia!
Hope you enjoyed!