So when I was younger I got to go to all these cool places for take your daughter to work day; job sites. My dad’s in construction and I loved picking up little left over things or cool looking pieces of "garbage" from the sites, like those little metal pieces that come from putting in new plug boxes, I still have my collection of those fake coin like things. So when my dad acquired a closed Sumco plant I was ready to rummage. This place is the creepiest, coolest playground. The company relocated the crystal growing facilities and wafer manufacturing to Ohio/overseas, both too far to take all the weird equipment they had at the Salem plant. We’re talking huge equipment, strange equipment, and miles of wire and duct work. I’ve been there twice already to get some shelves for my jars, and laundry area (see
There are so many tubes at this place; pink tubes, florescent tubes, iron tubes that look like Augustus Gloop could get sucked up in one, all kinds of tubes.


I’ll be back for you little a just you wait.