Exploring Abandoned Winchester Arms Co. New Haven CT in 2023
2024 ж. 11 Нау.
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What a shame this grand old lady of a company helped build this country and we just shrug like it’s nothing. What a pity
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@@ctbandos this beautiful place was amazing
@@danell5202True but remember it was a factory of death .
Thanks for this video. I saw pictures of the abandoned Ithaca Gun Co. that looked almost exactly like this Winchest factory - except smaller, of course.. The (mostly) men who worked in these factories were practical people who didn't need a whole lot of comfort as they worked their shifts each day, and at the end of the day they were proud of what they had made with their hands. My husband worked for Ithaca Gun for 36 years = assembly, repair. and other things. I remember that everyday at about 2:50pm cars would begin gathering on Gunshop Hill outside the factory gate to pick up the men who worked inside. Everyday a little festival. The men were happy to be out and the women and little children were glad to have them home. It was heartbreaking when the company held the final auction to complete the company's bankruptcy. Bill came home from the auction as white as a sheet, looking as if his mother had just died. But then he did go out to Upper Sandusky to help the new owners with all the practical knowledge they needed to pull the new Ithaca Gun Company together. He worked in Ohio until he retired in 2008. It was the only job he ever wanted to do. I'll bet there were a lot of "Bills" who worked for Winchester (and Remington, etc.), too.
I have a lot of items that were made in that factory. The oldest is a Model 1892 made in 1900. Still works great!
One of the coolest spots in CT for sure
I still have my 1st rifle I got when I was 7, a Winchester M9422 that was made here.
This is such a shame seeing this my father and my uncle worked here before WW 2 , to see it now is truly sad .
Great video!
Good stuff, new sub here.
Fire video as usual
The black rooms at 2:00 might of been the ovens they heat treated guns in.
My Mother and a Great Uncle worked for Winchester.
Do the old anchor glass plant in Salem nj I worked there from 2000-2008. 150 plus years of glass making it closed in 2015 I think makes me sad seeing it like it is
It reminds me of the studababaker plants here in south bend
@ctbandos I apologize... I just feel that our great grandparents and grandparents who worked their lives out in those "Dark Satanic Mills" are owed some sort of reverance... You must realize that a facility that large and that employed that many and operated for so long had to have had a few fatalities on the job. And it should be treated as a source of national pride that some of the surviving models made the VERY first year are still operational. There's a video that I saw here on YT where one of those people who go around with metal detectors found a Winchester circa 1900 -1910 buried under 3' of earth. After he bathed it in a solvent tank and then a grease tank he cleaned it up, replaced the wooden stock, loaded it, and fired it at target without even having to fully disassemble the register! Now THAT'S AMERICAN!!! My late gramps who was born in 1899 had a Winchester .22 pump that he had since his early adulthood and he was still dispatching rattle snakes and gophers with it in the 1980's. I'll remove my comment. Thanks for listening.
I don’t care about ur comment man I haven’t laughed that hard in a min. I’m sorry the way I talk made u think I’m disrespecting the mill and the history. I make these videos because I love history and architecture. I want other people to be able to see what this place looked like before it’s gone forever. Thats a dope find though this is probably the most historically important place I’ve made a video on so far these old arms factory’s tell stories.
Before we sold out. To be fair CT is not the only one. But that’s a state that’s carb in hard times…
My Grandfather served here WII and made weapons for the war…!!
Is it going go be demolished soon?
Actively being demolished, that’s why I didn’t care about giving out location
/WHERE ARE THEY BEING MADE NOW ? OVERSEAS
That's what happens when politicians get deranged.
a banshee runs in that bloodline
The land is useful. The factory no longer. Be glad it lasted so long rather than mourning its departure.
Always wear boots on these
The New England States are immensely liberal or left-wing these days. Democrat liberals and left-wingers dislike traditional manufacturing for various reasons. And they are intensely anti-2nd Amendment. Having a major firearms manufacturer in Connecticut was a major embarrassment for Connecticut liberal and left wing politicians. The heck with the lost jobs. The state was more than happy to be rid of Winchester Arms. You can see that Winchester was absolutely meticulous in removing everything and anything that could be used to injure or kill someone, leading to costly litigation. Winchester cleaned out their factory premises with a fine tooth comb. I realized early on it was a waste of time to watch this video.
Out with the old and hopefully in with a new better purpose. CT desperately needs an economic revitalization plan and the old model hasn't worked in years. Unfortunately back when these manufacturing plants existed people were willing to work anytime for peanuts and no benefits or protections. Once the labor unions demanded better conditions and fair based pay the greedy Greenwich types shipped business over seas for cheaped labor and laxed or non existing labor laws. It's a wonder people like that live anywhere in the country without getting assaulted or house vandalized regardless of security.