BASF, Beaumont
Tuesday, 1st November 2005 by James Turnbull
BASF is a German chemical company with plants throughout Europe, Japan and the United States. Approximately 250 employees work at BASF's Beaumont, Texas site which has this huge piece of Large type on the roof of one of the buildings. To avoid the potential embarrassment of the text being upside-down (like Loyola University) they wrote it both ways up.
Thanks: Brian
I don’t think the link is correct. I get the entire us map and it isn’t even centered near Beaumont.. Maybe it is just me????
BASF doesn’t make the Google maps you see. They make the Google maps you see better.
Hmm… Nice
Now that’s funny right thar..
Ah, I messed about with the URL a bit much. Now fixed.
Much better! To the southwest is this prison. View Placemark You have to wonder about the Warden that gives the inmates BASEBALL BATS!
This is our local prison in Manchester It is called Strangeways and they dont even let people outside, never mind let them play games.
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All you Smiths fans out there (and i know there are lots) will be familiar with Strangeways.
Interesting article about Strangeway. I take it that a ‘gaol’ is a prison or jail facility.? http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/154/154-pri.htm
Northern git, Do you know what this Manchester facility is? If you switch to map view it has roads running through it..?? View Placemark
William That, my friend, is the G-mex centre (Greater Manchester Exhibition Centre). It used to be Central Station, an old railway station which was closed down in the 1960’s . It stood empty for many years and was converted into an exhibition hall/concert venue type thing in the late 80’s. The roads on the map are the ‘undercroft’. The station sits high up and is built on a maze of arches and tunnels and when it was a station they were used for storing goods. it now serves as an underground car park for the exhibition centre above. If you google g-mex and manchester i’m sure you will get some pics.
I read that the Texas State Prison in Beaumont was heavily damaged by Hurricane Rita this summer and was evacuated to other facilities. (sorry, we got a bit off subject)
That explains all the roads.. they are leftovers from when it was the train station
Large type in Amarillo Texas. View Placemark