...if I had the money...I'd by the land and the big stack...then hire the best architectural firm in the world...and have 'em design and refit it into a living-space for me...with a penthouse & deck on top... the taller th' stack- all th' better!
I used to ride my bike around there, and try to get a tour by telling the guard we know a Mr. Koblankos that said it was okay. We never got the tour. I wonder why he didn't btlieve us?
...I always wanted to buy one of them stacks and then build a house in it up at the top for the fantastic view...plus a telescope and a deck for an elevated BB-Q and base-jump off it for kicks... These stacks are damn well-built- this idea has great potential... if ya got th' bucks!
Smoke stacks made of bricks starts to fall into pieces from inside after some years when they are not used. And then they will become a security risk and can fall down without any explosives.
I left VP in 1990. My grandmother still lives down the street from Ovaltine. Every time I would come to VP I would watch for that chimney and when I saw it I knew I was getting close to her house. What a shame.
Actually I'm more sorry to see Adam's Place on St. Charles go than the Ovaltine smokestack even though I haven't lived in Villa Park for more than a dozen years now. I'm old enough to remember when the factory was still active, and even took a tour when I was a little kid. It looks from the video that the stack almost clobbered the nearby condos on the way down.
straight uhhhp me too. and also me and chris met a drunk guy there and kept going on about stories about it and then we found him a "perfect brick" and then he said "oh man this perfect im gonna put this under my deck"
The whole thing was somewhat anticlimactic wasn't it.
ChicagoBob1 1 month ago
Nobody listens to classic rock anymore. I feel so alienated now. :(
KingKrabb999 3 months ago
Ralphie: That's for the crummy ad, douchebags!
CODMarioWarfare 3 months ago
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine? Son of a bitch!!!"
xygomorphic44 4 months ago
...if I had the money...I'd by the land and the big stack...then hire the best architectural firm in the world...and have 'em design and refit it into a living-space for me...with a penthouse & deck on top... the taller th' stack- all th' better!
SittingMooseShaman 4 months ago
I used to ride my bike around there, and try to get a tour by telling the guard we know a Mr. Koblankos that said it was okay. We never got the tour. I wonder why he didn't btlieve us?
MrMaypole14 4 months ago
Where's the bike trail ? When did they build all of this crap on the old Ovaltine sight ? This was on Villa Ave, Villa Park ? What a waste of money.
Starfield1959 5 months ago
I know that Ovaltine mix and milk was used for the mortar for the bricks in that stack.
jimamia77 5 months ago
...I always wanted to buy one of them stacks and then build a house in it up at the top for the fantastic view...plus a telescope and a deck for an elevated BB-Q and base-jump off it for kicks... These stacks are damn well-built- this idea has great potential... if ya got th' bucks!
SittingMooseShaman 6 months ago
lol love the guys running as it comes down SHIT SHIT SHIT oh its cool i wasnt scared.
NikitasGuitars 7 months ago
funny music
eurfer 10 months ago
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."- A Christmas Story
LilGrey456 1 year ago 4
wait is this villa park illinois?
sk8rocksick1 1 year ago
@sk8rocksick1 Sure was.
ArmandiMan123 1 year ago
@mikeinc come visit the uk mate.. We've got thousands of brink smoke stacks that are 200+ years old and more, which are unused and still standing!
markflack 1 year ago
that thing was massive
ThePIZZ23 1 year ago
NO WAY YOU GOT IT ON TAPE!!! I sooooo remember this thing! I've been to it before. R.I.P. smoke stack ;)
TheRandification 1 year ago
lmao music is perfect
technoman43 1 year ago
used to be able to see that smoke stack from 3 towns away...
MrFlavorcrayon 1 year ago
wow what ass holes
aquamarinedream 2 years ago
Smoke stacks made of bricks starts to fall into pieces from inside after some years when they are not used. And then they will become a security risk and can fall down without any explosives.
MikeInc79 2 years ago
haha never seen builders moove so fast
0303940 2 years ago
good it was fucking ugly anyway
Newbpwng 2 years ago
I just wanted to write this too.
licht181287 2 years ago
it didn t go very well, did it?
xstamdecay 2 years ago
Explain??
ArmandiMan123 2 years ago
the font, it makes my eyes bleed
4K4K1K0 2 years ago
I always saw that thing from my home town Elmhurst
alexcub25 3 years ago
I left VP in 1990. My grandmother still lives down the street from Ovaltine. Every time I would come to VP I would watch for that chimney and when I saw it I knew I was getting close to her house. What a shame.
tombstoner79 3 years ago
Actually I'm more sorry to see Adam's Place on St. Charles go than the Ovaltine smokestack even though I haven't lived in Villa Park for more than a dozen years now. I'm old enough to remember when the factory was still active, and even took a tour when I was a little kid. It looks from the video that the stack almost clobbered the nearby condos on the way down.
pocoapoco2 3 years ago
ya took out like 3 garage doors,unless they fixed em there all borded up right now
ArmandiMan123 3 years ago
I got me some bricks out that nigga.
kornstar108 3 years ago
straight uhhhp me too. and also me and chris met a drunk guy there and kept going on about stories about it and then we found him a "perfect brick" and then he said "oh man this perfect im gonna put this under my deck"
ArmandiMan123 3 years ago