Ed Greding Loc: Texas

Please forgive my ignorance, but what is the big machine in the first shot?

Dannj

I don’t know about that particular machine but it looks like the site of Gas Works Park on Lake Union, the former location of the Seattle Gas Works, a coal gasification plant. Now, whether or not there was a plan to turn the site into a park when the plant closed or if someday somebody just said: “Hey, instead of tearing this stuff down why don’t we just make it a park?!?!” I can’t say.
I should have paid more attention to the tour guide on the boat☹️

AlexS Loc: Minnesota

Yes, it was the gasworks park. Very interesting structure.

Thank you all for your comments