After spending most the morning trying to figure out WordPress I am finally understanding and learning the layout. I wanted to make this blog to talk about things pertaining to the Nesilos web site, thoughts and Ideas. I often have a lot of emails and comments about the site and am planing to do a revamp of the site here soon to make it look more modern. I just need to learn some more about web design and that is always fun since I don’t have time to do many of the things with the site that I want.
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hey tony,
things are good here and they seem to be picking up there. i’m glad to see the new site design. i wish i knew how to do that stuff. i am glad / not so glad to see that palmyra and avoca are off the market. i have been driving my girl nuts daily about wanting to move out there to a site. i have another one picked out that would do me just dandy. i have designed a piece that would enable me to put floors in the silo, something that no current owner has attempted. i also have figured out how to pump the silos dry in a lot less time that years. if i could just get a move-on and get out there, i’d be ok. looks like around september. who knows. well, i’m gonna go for now and i hope to be a regular fixture around here, keeping up with the goings on out there.
john e. boy
hi,
I am curious, years ago when I was 17, I went with a boyfriend to see an abandoned silo. I thought it was in Princeton, but it must have been the Cortland site.
All I remember is an above ground concrete access doorway, a steel door that someone had cut into , and a stairwell, at the bottom of stairwell,a catwalk that a person could not walk around as it was locked up somehow. All you could do was stand on the catwalk landing with flashlights, and look at the dark water. It was a big round room, but I do not remember anything in the middle like that support column.
There isn’t another site in Princeton, is there? This would have been WAY back in the late 70’s, like summer of 79.
I would guess it would of been the Cortland site since that is the only one close to Princeton. If you had walked to the bottom of the stairs and went in to the lower level of the LCC (LaunchControlCenter) then you would of not seen it probably cause it would of been covered by walls. If you were on the top Level of the LCC then the support column would be visible at least the top part of it. Do you remember going threw a long tunnel? That site had the doors welded going to the silo but it could of been possible to go threw the utility tunnel to see the silo. I would guess at that time that the water in the silo would of been 1/2 full so if you were looking down the water might have been probably 50′ down from where you would of been standing. That is the only place that i can see you seeing any water. The lcc didnt have water in it to be looking down and seeing it. Also the silo cribbing is still in there so do you remember seeing any steel beams or walking on any grating?