Nonrev Traveler's video: The Pullman Yard Atlanta Part III

Cycled today to the Pullman Yard, carrying my Leica Q to take, I though, about a thousand B&W photos with it for my own archive, and found the gates closed. The good kid that let me in last week, nowhere to be found. I cycled along the fence and then, when I was not able to see a gate open from the several, I flagged and called some of the workers inside, and asked them for the security guard, and/or permit to access the site. “They fired him because of you” one individual told me. Damn! I inquired about the offices to request permission to access and told me, “that black building across”, and went there. The lady there repeated; he was fired or is in trouble because ”the guy in the bicycle” me. Well, I feel really really bad about this whole thing with the kid. Such a nice person. For the kid; I left you a little bottle of polish booze with that lady, and if I can help on anything, contact me through here. I am sorry! A bit more History of the site bellow: Briefly during World War I, the plant was used for the production of munitions. Though the details of this work are unknown, it was not an uncommon practice at the time. Franklin Garret notes in his seminal work on the history of Atlanta, that Pratt Engineering gave its employees the remainder of the day off on the morning the armistice was announced. Though it would appear that business was booming, shortly after the War N.P. Pratt Laboratory and the Pratt Engineering and Machine Company were liquidated. Portions of the lab were sold to former NP Pratt Laboratory employees to form Brogdon-Dumas Laboratories (Chemical Age, 1919 and Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering, 1920). The remainder of NP Pratt Laboratory was sold to Coca Cola, which at the same time bought out William Pratt Heath’s start-up, Crystal Carbonic. Heath went on to become one of Coca Cola’s chief chemists. It is rumored that Earnest Woodruff, who bought out Coca-Cola in 1919, negotiated these deals, perhaps incorporating from Pratt their successful carbonic gas manufacturing and analysis and dropping the remainder to streamline business. What became of Pratt Engineering is not known, but the Kirkwood facility was bought by the Pullman Company in 1926. Two large saw-toothed buildings were constructed at this time, as well as the innovative transfer table, which allowed workers to move train cars laterally down the production line, saving space and time and allowing all work to go on.