Looking N from just west of intersection of Clay St. and River Road.
<p>Metro Salvage Corp. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrap" class="extiw" title="w:Scrap">scrap metal</a> yard at left.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement" class="extiw" title="w:Portland cement">Cement</a> silos at Missouri Portland Cement Terminal (acquired by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lafarge-na.com/wps/portal/na/en/1_1_6-History">Lafarge</a> in 1991), right of center.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_grain" class="extiw" title="w:Food grain">Grain</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo" class="extiw" title="w:Silo">silos</a> at Gold Proof Terminal at right.
Big Four Bridge in distance.
Ohio River mile 603.
Louisville, Kentucky.
January 1988.
File # 88a059.
</p><p>I believe this was once the site of the E.T. Slider Sand and Gravel Co.
There was a sternwheel towboat named <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/howard/id/388/rec/3">"E.T. Slider"</a> (T0663 in <i>Way's Steam Towboat Directory</i>), built in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1900 and dismantled in 1914.
There are some pictures of the "E.T. Slider" as well as the "C.C. Slider" (T0312; named for Chester C. Slider, son of E.T. Slider) in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/LaCrosseSteamboat">UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photographs collection</a>. Click on the "Search the Collection" link, then enter the boat name in the box.
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35 mm Kodachrome.
Plustek OpticFilm 7600i and Silverfast 8.
Picture Window 6.
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JPEG quality 95.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/70020260@N04">William Alden</a> from Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_alden/9478832153/">88a059: Metro Salvage scrap yard, Missouri Portland Cement Terminal, Gold Proof Terminal</a>