In this episode, I explore the remains of the Budd Company, found in 1912 by Edward G. Budd, whose fame comes from his development of the first all-steel automobile bodies in 1913 and the companies invention of the Shotwell technique for joining stainless steel without damaging its anti-corrosion properties in the 1930s.

In 1848 John Roebling purchased 25 acres of land in what is now Trenton NJ for his wire rope business. Designing the buildings and machines, he directed the company until his death in 1869. By World War I the factory was the largest wire rope plant in the world. Shuddered in the 1970s, join me as I venture inside to see what remains.

In early December of 2011, Pittsburgh Police along with the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Officer removed 19 containers of cremated human remains and 30 animal remains from the abandoned funeral home.