The history and architecture of grain elevators and their evolving roles as prairie icons. Also checkout the story of Esterhazy's restored 1906 flour mill. http://youtu.be/s-xGr1PEOY4
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I live in a rural area. When I'm traveling to a town I've never been, I watch in the distance for the town's elevator. Or water tower. You can't get lost in my area if you carry a map and check the name on the elevator and you can figure out where you are. Those elevators were made to last. as was all construction way back when....
Excellent video! Hopefully, many of the elevators can be preserved.
Thanks Jason. It's always nice to hear from viewers who enjoy our work!
Excellent video, thank-you so much more highlighting an important part of our past - and present.
As a railroad enthusiast, I've become fascinated by feed mill and grain elevator operations of late, particularly with the Canadian elevators. Sad to see them being replaced by larger grain handling structures since the smaller elevators seemed to have more interesting operations from a rail perspective. Very sorry to hear about the Fleming fire. I guess Canada has more than it's fair share of vandals just like down here in the states.
This was a really good vid, thanks for posting it! Living in Western Kansas I have seen our wood elevators all but vanish over the last 30 years. Of course we had some really small 8-12,000 bushel horse era elevators standing empty in the early 80s yet but sadly they are all gone. If I only would have had the money then I would have bought one to preserve myself.
im so sorry about the fleming elevator
The burning of the Fleming elevator was a real tragedy. We were lucky to capture it on film before the fire but that's not a replacement for the real thing. Thanks for watching.
The Fleming elevator was a victim of arson a few years ago that summer it was going to open for tourists