#bethlehem pennsylvania

[thunderstruck9]

Joseph Stella (American, 1877-1946), Bethlehem, c.1918. Pastel on paper_12 × 16 1/2 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

#joseph stella #american art #smoke #chimneys #industrial #industrial landscape #bridge #bethlehem pennsylvania

[messiah-girl]

Bethlehem, PA August 2022

#35mm film #film photograhers #filmisnotdead #film photography #bethlehem #bethlehem pennsylvania #original photographers #35mm photography #35mm #cinestill #photography #pennsylvania #lehigh valley #steel stacks #steel mill #industrial #factory #abandoned #urban exploration #urban explorers

[patgavin]

Former Bethlehem Steel site

Steelstacks, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

#bethlehem steel #beth steel #pennsylvania #bethlehem pa #dji #drone photography #steel mill #blast furnace

[the-gone-ton]

The bastards finally did it. They killed my mall 🥺

The Westgate Mall was built by Bethlehem developer Harold S. Campbell, starting with just a 7-11, growing into a small strip mall through the 60s and finally by 1973, an enclosed mall featuring then-prominent retailers like Hess's, McCrory's, IGA, and plenty others. The Campbell family owned the mall for 40 years, through good times & bad, before selling it for only $2.3 million in 2013.

The next owner, another local developer named Mark Pepitone, successfully breathed new life into the aging mall with a popular new attraction: SkyZone trampoline park, which took up a ton of previously vacant space and brought more people into the mall. But Pepitone's renovations never were completed. I speculate that his stated $5 million budget had already been exhausted, and the looming demise of the mall's biggest tenant, Bon-Ton, probably made him reconsider how much money he wanted to spend. After 5 years, Pepitone sold the mall for $30 million to NJ-based Onyx Equities in 2018, just after Bon-Ton went out of business.

Onyx did some good things at first. Weis expanded & occupied most of the Bon-Ton space. Harbor Freight came in and took most of Weis's old spot. A health center replaced the old Rite Aid that had closed. But unlike the previous owners, who were locals and wanted to make the mall healthier, Onyx just wanted to tear it all down and build something new - something with no character, no uniqueness, no purpose other than looking good for investors on their website I suppose. And they didn't care how many people they had to step on to make it happen, either. Just ask the tenants who got evicted - some of whom had been there since day 1 in 1973 - how they feel about being kicked out and not given any accommodations. But now they've done it, they got what they wanted. I hope they're happy.

#westgate mall #bethlehem #pennsylvania #photography #dead mall #retail #dead malls #deadmall #mall #malls #shopping mall #shopping malls #retail apocalypse #sad #sad news #bon ton #demolition #history

[federer7]

Graveyard, houses and steel mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 1935

Photo: Walker Evans

#Walker Evans #bethlehem #pennsylvania #1935 #graveyard

[theartsofrust]

#abandoned #Bethlehem #Pennsylvania #1990's

[lady-bohemia]

Abandoned Estate Historical Ruins • Bethlehem, PA

#personal #mine #adventures #archibald Johnston mansion #Housenick park #archibald Johnston estate #abandoned #abandoned Pennsylvania #Lehigh valley #Northampton county #Bethlehem pa #ruins #autumn #fall foliage #abandoned estate #urban exploration #urbex

[20th-century-railroading]

ALOI

EMD GP38 7870 leads Conrail's ALOI (Allentown-Oak Island) thru "Steel City" curve on it's way East.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania August 1992

#cr #conrail #1992 #trains #freight train #history #bethlehem #pennsylvania

[supplyside]

battleship turret, Bethlehem Steel

#battleship #heavy industry #steel #Bethlehem Steel #manufacturing #USS Pennsylvania #navy #US Navy

[lonestarbattleship]

Forging of a 16 inch/50 caliber gun at the Iron Forge, Bethlaham Steel factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, circa December 1941. These guns are likely for the Iowa Class Battleships.

A worker cutting the gun casting in the Bethlehem Steel factory.

Photographed by Dmitri Kessel and Fritz Goro for LIFE Magazine.

LIFE Magazine Archive: 116633208, 548858, 110643009, 110643014

#16 inch gun #Battleship #Iowa Class #Ship construction #December #1941 #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #u.s. navy #Bethlehem #Pennsylvania #my post

[geopsych]

Star of Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum. Not a native. A garden escape from a long time ago that isn’t an aggressive invasive.

#pennsylvania #flowers #nonnative plants #star of bethlehem #Ornithogalum umbellatum #may #garden escape

[aryburn-trains]

The snowbound final eastbound Maple Leaf at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where the New York and Philadelphia sections were separated. The crew in front of train is dealing with a frozen train line causing loss of heat in the cars. No. 8 eventually limped into Newark eight hours late and passengers had to transfer to a Pennsylvania R.R. train for the final leg into Manhattan. February 4, 1961

#maple leaf #lv #lehigh valley #1961 #new york city #philadelphia #toronto #trains #passenger train #history #bethlehem #pennsylvania

[nalyras]

Snowy Night, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

#Snowy Night #Bethlehem #Pennsylvania

[cmonbartender]

Bethlehem houses and steel mill, Pennsylvania (1935) - Walker Evans

#photography #walker evans #1930s #1935 #bethlehem #pennsylvania #architecture

[the-gone-ton]

Plywood is up and doors are locked, closing off most of the Westgate Mall. It deserved better :(

#westgate mall #photography #dead mall #retail #dead malls #deadmall #mall #malls #shopping mall #shopping malls #retail apocalypse #dead mall series #pennsylvania #bethlehem

[federer7]

November 1935. "Household supply store. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania"

Photo by Walker Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration.

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#Walker Evans #november #1935 #bethlehem #pennsylvania