Milling: (3D Satellite)
The thing that caught my eye is that they were doing on-site batching of concrete rather than using ready-mix trucks. I expected to see that in the 1920s, but not in the 1960s. Especially for the small job of doing just the gutter and curb. My family moved into one of the first houses in a subdivision in 1957. I watched the building of the remaining houses in that subdivision. All of the foundations were poured with ready-mix trucks. That was way back before concrete pump trucks and front-unloading trucks. It was interesting watching the truck driver maneuver around the foundation of a house to get the chute to reach were it was needed.
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| Missouri's Historic Highways posted Randy Reardon: After some quick detective work on Google MAPS... It's the 4400 block of Bircher, north of downtown. I found it by the house by the raised truck bed on the left (the high architectural peak and and stones over the door is 4422 Bircher Blvd. 2 houses down, right above the workers is the house with the distinctive white brick inlay is 4434 Bircher Blvd. Doug Baranowski: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iRHUnvzhWQfo1pwx6?g_st=ic Jim Buescher: A lot of dump trucks lined up just to pour curb and gutter. Alan Anzalone: Looks like a father and son are up close spectators of the project. I don't think that would work today. [Today, they would not have been able to get to the median of the interstate before they were told to get off the interstate land. They would have had to watch from public land next to Bircher Blvd.] Dan Clark: construction crews hate having concrete delivered in dump trucks. it sets up way too fast! [Several other comments assume the trucks are hauling concrete instead of dry mix. I think they are delivering just the dry ingredients and water is added and mixed by the paver.] Randy J Wendt: Dump beds are interesting being sectioned. Shelton Singer: My father ran that paver and the dividers in the dump trucks are to separate the batches. The paver is a dry batch paver and mixed the batches in the paver. Each truck hauled 4 batches and they could only put one in at a time. [One of the few Facebook comments that I have "Loved" because it confirmed that the comments about carrying concrete in the trucks are wrong.] The company is Bangert Brothers Road Builders. Today they are called Milstone-Weber. |
Bonus: More on-stie batching of the concrete. In this case I can see tank trucks for water as well as many dump trucks for the dry ingredients.
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| Missouri's Historic Highways posted April 1, 1953 - Routes 61 and 67construction paving S of Crystal City |
While looking for the paving location, I noticed an "Adm Milling" label. It is rare to see a viable elevator and mill in a downtown location.
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| Street View, Sep 2022 |
In fact, the building on the east side appears to be a rather recent expansion. However, it is not that recent. According to topo maps, it was built between 1954 and 1968.
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| Street View, Aug 2022 |
The pneumatic hopper on the right would haul flour, the 3-bay hoppers on the left would haul grain.
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| Street View, Aug 2021 |
The expansion facility has some serious rail service.
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| Satellite |
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| ADM "Anything but run-of-the-mill." |
The storage capacity is almost 2 million. [gfai]
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