#warehouses

[unbfacts]

The U.S. holds about 1.4 billion pounds of cheese, primarily owned by private companies and stored in facilities like Missouri's underground warehouses.

[sometimeslondon]

Shad Thames, an historic street near Tower Bridge with its aerial walkways between the converted warehouses

[eopederson]

Bryggen, Bergen før turistflommen, Norge, 1972.

Bryggen, 2023.

In 1972 the buildings housed ship chandlers, clothiers for seaman and fisherman, and similar maritime-related commerce. Now those buildings house restaurants, Christmas-crap shops and other tourist treasure sellers. The famous Norwegian sweaters once worn by maritime workers and now sported by affluent tourists are about the only items sold in 1972 and still available in 2023.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Grain warehouses in the Port of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Argentinian vintage postcard

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from The Revelator:

In recent decades the Inland Empire — comprised of San Bernardino and Riverside counties — has been the primary victim of America’s warehouse boom. As demand for online shopping has surged — e-commerce sales grew 50% to $870 billion during the pandemic alone — this region has served as a billionaire’s dumping ground. Those are the words of Tom Dolan, executive director of Inland Congregations United for Change. “Now it’s no longer just Warren Buffet, it’s Jeff Bezos and Amazon,” Dolan told The Guardian in 2021. “And we’re paying the cost of doing their business.”

That business is only made possible by taking out a nonconsensual loan from the residents of surrounding communities. It’s a coercive trade: the health and safety of citizens for the profits they’ll never share. And no worthwhile efforts have been made to pay off that debt.

In order to fulfill the glamorous promises of expedited, overnight and same-day deliveries, diesel trucks conduct over 600,000 daily trips through the Inland Empire alone, carrying roughly 40% of the nation’s goods. These vehicles emit 1,000 pounds of diesel particulate matter every day (alongside 100,000 pounds of nitric oxide and 50,000,000 pounds of carbon dioxide).

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified diesel particulate matter as a Group 1 carcinogen — the most severe category — due to sufficient evidence linking diesel exposure to lung cancer. (Other studies have suggested a relationship to cancers of the bladder, larynx, esophagus, stomach, pancreas and blood, alongside asthma, other respiratory disease, heart attacks and premature mortality.) The region bordering the warehouse hub in one Inland Empire city, Ontario, ranks in the 95th percentile of cancer. A 2015 study estimated that 70% of the total cancer risk from air pollution in California is caused by diesel exhaust alone.

The people who suffer the consequences of our online shopping are not typically over-consumers themselves. The South Coast Air Quality Management District found that the 2.4 million people living within half a mile of a warehouse are also disproportionately Black and Latino communities below the poverty line. In 2012 San Bernardino ranked as the second poorest city in America with over 34.6% of people living in poverty. And of all the residents living within a mile of the average Amazon warehouse, 80% are people of color.

[aneverydaything]

Day 2252, 22 August 2024

One of my favourite views in my local area. This is Limekiln Dock in Limehouse which is basically a small inlet from the River Thames. Here converted warehouses stand right next to the water's edge. I cannot say whether they flood regularly and whether they have excellent damp proofing!

[sagent-of-chaos]

let it go but not the song

[sansimeonsims]

Right now, I'm trying to find the tenuous balance between satisfying my "plausible" world builder and the practical aspects of making a large, island based world inspired by an infamously buggy EA map. And the world-builder in me is winning.

I ended up creating a few warehouses on the logic that this island province needed an indication that stuff was being shipped out of it to justify the wealthy people houses we see everywhere. The warehouses are bare right now but may be decorated to resemble period warehouses.

Another challenge and benefit to the warehouses is that I can turn them into junkyards, vaults of antiquity, or "secret" buildings for supernaturals without breaking immersion. The challenge being how I'm supposed to make them logically fit into the world by giving them a backstory that has purpose.

[melbmemories]

Flinders Lane, Melbourne, north side, just east of King St, 1956.

HC Nolan, Commission Agents, operated from Dudley Buildings in Collins St.

LA Wade, Paper Merchants, operated from Robb's Buildings in Collins St.

This photo includes the rear of their premises.

NLA caption: "Old warehouses off Flinders Lane West, Melbourne, Victoria, 1956,"

Wolfgang Sievers

NLA

[themonsterthing]

South SF after a storm

[shadowcats4]

Can I move into an old coal mine? Please? Is that too much to ask?

For reference:

Something like that.

Beautiful

[dndsettingsinfo]

Small Trade Warehouse [31×25] by Cozy Maps

[sometimeslondon]

A closer look at the old walkways crossing Shad Thames between the former warehouses

The banners saying "No Oceandiva" relates to a protest against the mooring of the huge Oceandiva party boat outside these expensive apartments over-looking the River Thames. I must say that I have some sympathy with the protesting residents here. They have paid a lot of money for what they could rightly expect to be a quite, uninterrupted riverside view only to have the equivalent to the Tuxedo Princess parked outside (Sorry this reference is only likely to be understandable to older people familiar with Newcastle upon Tyne!)

[eopederson]

Bryggen, Bergen, Norge, 2023.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Warehouses for the delivery service of the Grands Magasins du Louvre department store in Paris

French vintage postcard

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