At one time in Peoria’s past history, Fleming Potter was a place that was a booming business and it employed hundreds of people. I was one of those hundreds of people and I worked there from 1980 to 1993. That’s 13 years of my life spent in one building. In 1993 I quit my job at Fleming Potter and moved to New York City. People thought I was nuts to be leaving my job there as it was a union graphic arts job that paid very well. Sadly, Fleming Potter closed its doors over ten years ago when I was living in New York City. The building has remained a vacant fixture in downtown Peoria ever since. I’ve been meaning to go down there and take look around, so I thought today we’d go look at the building that used to be...Fleming Potter.
Here we are heading towards Adams Street and there's the Fleming Potter building looming in the distance.
Here's the parking lot where I parked my car for 13 years. My spot was right under the second light fixture over there.
There it is, the old Fleming Potter building...
On the corner of Persimmon and Adams.
If you worked in production, you couldn't enter or exit through the front door, you had to walk down the sidewalk to a side door. That always kind of bugged the shit out of me.
I thought I'd take a couple of "Boris" styled photos of the building in decay on the way down to the door.
These aren't up to the quality of "Boris" but give me some credit for effort over here!
Here's the last shot in my "Boris" inspired trilogy. Thanks for the inspiration, Daddio!
This is the rusted out side door that the workers would have to enter.
Visitors got to use the front door...
Which is right here, overlooking Adams Street.
Check it out, a double front door obligatory mirror shot! That's a first here on the blog!
I can't believe that gold leaf lettering is still there on the inside front door. Information!
There's the old "fp" logo to the right in a gold foil stamped label.
Here's a shot from the side of the building.
There's one in every crowd! Somebody's always got to be different.
The building looks pretty massive from back here. I wonder if anyone will ever buy it or if it'll eventually be torn down. Time will tell, I guess.
I forgot all about the old F-P van till I saw this signage.
Memories...la dee da dee da da da...We'll see you all tomorrow.
