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East Rochester, New York, circa 1904. "Storeroom at Merchants Despatch Transportation Co." Detroit Publishing Co. glass negative. View full size.
I can see HGTV going crazy with this space in today's world, turning it into a "living space" for trendy yuppies. There would be stainless steel appliances and granite everywhere!
That isn't a trapdoor. It's a scale used for weighing the cart loads.
An interesting photo from the B.C. era (Before Cardboard) of packaging. Wooden barrels and crates, and excelsior instead of bubble wrap or styro peanuts. When I was a tot in the 1950s, I loved it when a new family would move into the neighborhood because that meant there would lots of excelsior-stuffed barrels out by the curb, back when they were used for packing dishes and glassware. With two or three you could make a nifty barrel-fort.
There was a worker pulling that wagon until he stepped on that trapdoor. Poor guy!
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