As some of you may have heard, the Sunset Line & Twine building in Petaluma is scheduled to be converted into condos. It's bittersweet news to anyone who's grown up in Petaluma in the past...oh 100 years as Sunset L&T is the coolest, creepiest, factory in town.
As long as I can remember it's always looked abandoned and decrepit, but until last spring it was still producing a variety of lines and twines as it had done for since the end of the 19th century. Some history changing cordage has come out of that brick pile: Parachute cord for the Apollo missions as one example. But it's manufacturing days are over. Housing is it's future.
My knee jerk reaction is to decry the condo conversion, but I will be thankful that they are going to be saving the structure and not wiping the site clean. Luckily, (thanks to my dad) I was able to go on a 'last tour' of the building and thereby fulfill a childhood dream of seeing the inside of the place.
Photos here.
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