Wednesday, October 20, 2010

History Before the Haunting

              The ruins of the Stockyards, was formally known as the Swift-Armour Company, back in 1909 when it was built. This building was used to slaughter and package meat. In the early 1970's, arsenic's set fire to the packing plant. Rumor has it, that firefighters were not able to put the fire out immediately, for there was fat, left over from the slaughtering, that kept feeding the fire. Years afterwards, Spaghetti Warehouse company decided to turn the old Swift-Armor office building into one of its restaurant franchise. Only 20 years after being open, the restaurant was closed in 2003.


                                                Formally Spaghetti Warehouse
                                                 Photography by Steven Martin



Sources: Eyes on Texas and Fort Worth Stockyards History
Posted by at

2 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 9, 2015 at 11:06 PM

    No on the restaurant that was close in 2003.it was close in 1995 or 1996 because of rats that was over populated and cause the restaurant to close its doors for good.

    ReplyDelete
  2. UnknownJanuary 9, 2015 at 11:12 PM

    Now on the meat packing plant.It was on fire because if many of you back then live in that time period.they did not have very tough standards on no smoking on the jobs and technology was no very popular then like it is now.Texas is at that time was very hot place and working in the plant was very hot where the concrete floor was like a stove top and all that fat was on that concrete floor that was hot that added to people smoking that fueled the fire of that meat packing plant.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)