Day the smoke stack came down May 1997

1997 color photograph of the Die Cast Manufacturing plant smokestack being demolished. Woodstock, Illinois. There are many spectators watching from a parking lot.
1997 color photograph of the Die Cast Manufacturing plant smokestack being demolished. Woodstock, Illinois. There are many spectators watching from a parking lot as the smokestack begins to tip and fall.
1997 color photograph of the Die Cast Manufacturing plant smokestack demolished. Woodstock, Illinois. There are many spectators watching from a parking lot.
1997 color photograph of the Die Cast Manufacturing plant smokestack taken from the Woodstock Sauare Park just prior to demolition.
1997 color photograph of the Die Cast Manufacturing plant smokestack taken from the Woodstock Sauare Park just after demolition.

Title

Day the smoke stack came down May 1997

Description

This series of five photos show the day the Die Cast smokestack was demolished. A large percentage of Woodstock folks watched the event.

Jim started with a picture of the Woodstock Square taken near the E. Jackson St entrance that shows the smokestack in the distance beyond Main St. Next people gather to watch, including one photographer standing on his van. In the third photo, the chimney is starting to topple. In the fourth photo, only the dust remains where the smokestack stood. Finally, Jim returned to the same location on the Square to show the empty space in the distance where the smokestack stood.

For more photos of the demolition, see the Don Peasley collection.

Creator

Keefe, Jim

Source

Keefe, Jim

Date

1997-05

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Citation

Keefe, Jim, “Day the smoke stack came down May 1997,” Woodstock Public Library Archives, accessed January 24, 2025, https://woodstockpubliclibraryarchives.omeka.net/items/show/141.

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