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On Sunday 26 December 2004 I took a trip to visit the former headquarters of Wang Laboratories, Incorporated - the former Wang Towers complex at 1 Industrial Avenue in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. The week before, I had stayed up late reading Charles C. Kenney's 1992 chronicle of the spectacular rise and fall of Wang - "Riding the Runaway Horse". After reading the Wang story, I had to get a closer look at the buildings that I had previously only glimpsed while speeding by on the highway. |
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The Wang Towers form an imposing structure that dominates the landscape clear to the New Hampshire border. I photographed them on a bitterly cold and windy morning through spitting snow - three giants of unadorned grey concrete and shaded plate glass. I could still discern the shadows of the old blue Wang logos high on the walls. (These shadow logos are visible in the two close-up images on the left.) Even in their absence, the logos that once marked the Towers as the center of the globe-spanning Wang enterprise seem to speak louder than the present signage. |
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