IBM Building 25 sculpture - a photo on Flickriver

IBM Building 25 sculpture

            My Dad in 1964 at the IBM Research Lab / Magnetic Disk Plant on Cottle Road in San Jose, California.   He worked there as an engineer on the disk drive assembly.

The "Hydrogyro" sculpture fascinated me as a kid.

On Google Maps (Oct 2012) you can see where the bridge is and this sculpture is in pieces scattered around the area.  Building 25 is still there, abandoned.  In 2008 the building was burned in a suspicious fire.  The shell of the building is still standing and boarded up.  The area is fenced in, waiting for something good to happen.

Taken in: United States / California / San Jose (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1964

Tags:

1950s

1960s

modern

sculpture

architecture

IBM

San Jose

disk

drive

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Sets appears in: • California places • Family and Friends more » • Bay Area mid-century « less

Groups appears in: • SF Bay Area • Googie more » • Old Photographs • california history • 1960's • Mid-Century Modern • Photos from the 1960s • Family Photos 50 Plus Years Old • Cold War artifacts « less

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