Looking NNE from Ashland <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asphalt" class="extiw" title="w:asphalt">asphalt</a> terminal just above JFK Bridge.
<p>Unloading asphalt barges (the asphalt must be heated to make it thin enough to be pumped) .
Black barge with gray deck is permanently moored next to pylons.
In distance, towboat "Jack D. Wofford" (doc. # 504813) upbound at Big Four Bridge.
Ohio River mile 603.
Louisville, Kentucky.
January 1988.
File # 88a018.
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The asphalt terminal was located about where the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.louisvillewaterfront.com/projects/lincoln/">Lincoln Memorial</a> parking lot is in 2013.
Sometimes you can still detect a petroleum aroma near the river in that area.
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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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