Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

An early hour trip to the industrial part of Oil Town, to catch these hordes of machines in the summer morning sun. Taken at several nearby equipment rental yards. The sea of silver and beige in the foreground is an army of industrial ligh ting plants. D iesel powered units for working at night . T he masts stand vertical and usually hold 4 powerful lamps. The trucks in the middle are deck trucks and tractor units for delivering the rental gear.  

The last film played at the venerable Empire Theater Granville 7 on November 4, 2012....the interior demolition started at 7:30 am the next day. Anything that looked, smelled or in anyway resembled movie night out...was torn down, torn off, hammered, unbolted , unscrewed, pulled away and tossed into the garbage bin of constant progress. It was sad to see the screens get cut apart with knives and the seats getting the sledgehammer treatment. The massive speakers that could have powered a fantastic outdoor concert ( or a window busting house party ), all went to the trash bins. In the end, no one had the time and storage space to put the goodies until a good home could be found. We will be regretting that move one day when the technology swings back around to "retro" mode...and all the gear is gone. Makes me think of all those WW ll  airplanes that got scrapped at the end of the war. Nobody considered them to be of any value...because "new technology" was com...