Present Day Photos Of The McCaskey Register Company Plants

This is Plant No. 1 which we didn't know existed until our trip to Alliance.  It is located at 321 Rush Street in Alliance, Ohio.  Which is now home to Alliance Wholesale Company.  This was the original plant mentioned in my history page. It doesn't look alot like it did in the beginning, With the sucess of the company expansions were needed.

The picture in the upper left is how plant no.2 looked in 1925. The middle picture is as you walk up to the  office building. The third picture is of the inside foyer and still seems to be in relatively good condition.  When we arrived iat the plant we had no idea how our day was going to turn out.  We thought we should at least ask someone if we could take pictures of the outside of the buildings.  We aproached a man we saw working and asked if we could take pictures he surprised us and said we could go inside.  He introduced us to his wife to show us around.  I knew they looked familiar.  They are actually parents of an old freind of mine.  Frank and Judy Bargides (Judy on the left) are the newest owners of the old McCaskey Register Co. plant no.2 Their company is called Alco Molded, Inc. and they do plastic recycling and injection molding for Rubbermaid and Little Tykes. This second picture is of the second floor hallway. There are a lot of doors leading off of this hall and we presume that they were offices for the executives and possibly executive secretaries. You can't see from this picture, but there is a lot of damage to ceilings and such .

When we got to the third floor, we found the old safe still intact.  Judy told us that when they got the building all the shelves in the safe were still there.  This was very much a surprise after you look at the second picture which is the home of the safe.  This is the third floor and if you look closely you can see the rows of lights and the electrical outlets.  We are assuming this was the accounting and payroll departments.  There have been different companies housed in this building and it just amazed us that noone had taken care of the building.  The third picture is looking out the window at the stamping plant.

The two pictures above and to the left are of the power plant and stack. The deterioration is obvious and the boilers had to be removed because the area was too dangerous.  The stack however has been named a historical landmark, how odd that the buildings weren't.  The above two pictures are of the stamping plant which sat behind the office building.  The old railroad loading dock is still there, but the tracks have since been removed which is the case with most of that particular line.  Frank and Judy are doing everything they can to restore as much of the buildings as possible, but it is very costly and a slow process.  Some things have been taken out for the safety of their employees but much remains intact.  When you walk through the buildings it is almost as if you can feel the spirits of the employees of the past and imagine what it must have looked like in all it's glory.  I' m sure if they are watching they would approve of what Frank and Judy are trying to do.  I know that as a granddaughter of an old employee of The McCaskey Register Company, I do. Once again I would like to thank Frank and Judy for without them a lot of this web site would not be possible.  They were very gracious and patient with us and provided a lot of information.

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