Don’t miss the Library’s Program, Remembering Centre Foundry, Coming Up on May 6, 2025.
Like most kids who grew up in Warwood, I walked, biked, or drove by a place called Centre Foundry & Machine Company thousands of times without really knowing what went on behind its nearly transparent, sun-bleached, hospital blue-green, corrugated metal and cinder block walls. Passing the building at any hour of the night, a kid like me might hear the bone-shivering shriek of metal on metal as an orange-red glow irradiated the thin walls, piercing through the rivets and rips and broken window panes like a laser show, adding to the mystery.
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