Industrial Nostalgia Lover Prints

'Wasn't there three of you guys when we started?'

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

Motivation to work

Idle parts

Meticulously prepared, locally sourced food served on artifacts of a romanticized industrial past, by people who take their fashion cues from daguerreotypes, to adults whose parents still pay their rent.

"It's a mixed-use facility: retail space, low-rent housing, luxury apartments, and an area set aside for making steel."

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

U.S. Manufacturing - Good News & Bad News

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

"Our 'Invest in American' program is saving money by buying orange safety cones from China."

'Once we switch to information processing, just imagine how much data this baby will handle.'

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. V. - Theatrical depression.

'I liked the Pompidou Center too, Melvin, but I'm not obsessed with it.'

'Someday, all of this liability exposure will be yours!'

Santa Confronts the Industrial Age.

"Our carbon footprint has been very, very good to us."

Steel Works - 'How the devil did all this go down 7 3/8 today?'

Artist in industrial environment paints a butterfly.

Wine stored inside an old fashioned monitor.

"Can I call you back? I'm creating happy memories of my childhood for my father."

'It was designed for people who don't want any visitors.'

"Forty years ago on this very seat I proposed to you. Made up your mind yet?"

Factory Smoke

Surgical Appliance Factory

'Mom calls this a diary where you write private thoughts no one else can see. What fun is that?'

"Where do you see yourself in five years time?"

"I don't know why other countries won't buy our products...After all, they made them!"

'Some of you were wondering, 'what, exactly, does Smedgwick, Refining and Smelting do'?'

Lightbulb Maker

'Brewers Men'

Existentialist Amnesia Clinic

"I thought that open-hearth furnace was a little too open."

'Who are you calling 'oldtimer', sonny?!'

'You appear to have a major industrial complex.'

"One day son this will all be the banks."