Urban Exploration - Endicott Johnson (EJ) shoe factory, 96 year old abandoned building

Urban Exploration - Endicott Johnson (EJ) shoe factory, 96-year-old abandoned building
Endicott, NY rust belt which way EJ, abandoned factory, shoe factory
abandoned factory

[@birdleso]

This is great guys. So happy to see that after all these years there are still some crazy teenagers running around Endicott, not afraid to explore.

[@MikeGrow-jt7fc]

how could i get this on dvd

[@MikeGrow-jt7fc]

how do i get this video on vhs or dvd

[@ncnanst8]

My grandparents worked here..I remember as a kid driving by I can still smell the tannery and the hissing of machines…

[@TheKEDW]

I’m always amazed at the amount of debris still inside. It’s a shame that these buildings were allowed to just rot away. Both my grandma and grandpa worked for EJ , right after WWII. My grandmother told me that all day long she used to sew the front stitch down the front of Mens shoes. It was mind numbing work she said. But nobody complained and the workers benefits were terrific. Great video 👍🏻

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

Thanks!

[@alixhice]

TheKEDW My grandmother too! ❤️

[@timothymathewson8094]

Best summer of my life 1969. I worked there to pay for tuition for college. Hardworking, good people that made America great

[@MikeGrow-jt7fc]

how do i get this video on vhs or dvd

[@MikeGrow-jt7fc]

how do i get this video on vhs or dvd@@FloridaWaterAdventures

[@zyxwut321]

My grandparents and much of my family worked here in the early to mid 20th century.

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

Which way EJ?

[@flexx_cv9310]

Which way to EJ

[@nicolebulger5485]

Theres a lot of old abandoned buildings in this area, so spooky at night. My Grandparents and Great grandmother worked at EJ's, they came from Italy with only a few words of English. Its really too bad that all the factories left Binghamton and the surrounding area. This shoe factory suported many families to make a living here.

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

Which way EJ?

[@nicolebulger5485]

Greg Hammack Yes, "Which way EJ's" Sometime's we drive around and both of them would tell me what that building made, or "this is where i met Uncle Dominick", or "this used to be where the girls and i had lunch" ect.

[@flexx_cv9310]

Fr I'm from binghamton and moved to endicott and it's crazy to think of how most of these towns were built on these facteries -Endicott. Jhonson- hense E,J jhonson city an endicott all binghamton was a stop the old kmart plaza in binghamton used to be loading docks back then,I know this is a lot but come on our ancestors came off of ellis island and said which way to E.J and in endicott there's old million dollar houses that were home to the one and only Jeorge F Jhonson

[@smd6299]

I’ve been in here 1000 times and you can’t even walk on half of the building but it’s cool

[@MikeGrow-jt7fc]

how do i get this video on vhs or dvd

[@awesomedudeplayz3950]

It’s gone now but cool to see that It’s a memory captured in history

[@KitschyTravels]

I would love to go here someday. Looks big and lots to explore

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

Yep. Hyuuuuuuuuuge!

[@markblank4350]

Its gone now

[@joemancini327]

Rip

[@flexx_cv9310]

@@markblank4350 at least there building a modern looken builden but our towns history

[@Camiluvspie]

i live right around here, and i think instead of national pipe & plastic tearing down the building, they should rebuild it as accurately as possible and have it be a museum of the local businesses' histories. this general area has a lot of fascinating history that a lot of people don't know about

[@smd6299]

camille osborn I’ve been inside 1000 times and it’s not possible bro

[@franimal007]

Lol

[@happynicky6265]

Sm d they said rebuilt

[@flexx_cv9310]

Straight facts EJs crazy same as IBM

[@awesomedudeplayz3950]

Like stardew valley if ykyk

[@equid0x]

My father worked at EJ when I was a kid. Said there were tons of chemicals buried under the parking lot on the property. This was operational in to the late 80s/early 90s(can't remember exactly). My mom would meet my dad there after work and we would have wings at Stu's Place, a bar across the street, dunno if it's still there as I have not lived in the area for many years. There was also a pool in the park across the street I swam in many times as a kid.

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

Wow. I wonder who knows this.

[@equid0x]

@@FloridaWaterAdventures I don't know. I was told they would dig up the lot in the middle of the night, bury barrels of waste, and then repave it by morning. Thinking back, this is a possibility... I remember the lot there being a pavement patchwork. I was also told that the power transformers were known to be leaking cooling oil which at the time contained PCBs, a carcinogen. Given the history of the area I would not be at all surprised. I know the state pinned the plume on IBM but perhaps what is lesser known is that parts of the IBM Endicott site were originally EJ factories. I think that in the context of the times, companies dumping their waste "out back" was pretty much the status quo. I believe I was told the west Endicott plant produced shoe soles so it's probably a Superfund site.

[@flexx_cv9310]

Yooo that's west endicott park they tore down EJ and are building this modern building and yes the bars still there

[@flexx_cv9310]

@@equid0x u know alot about this history do u know what used to be JFS they say it sinks a couple of inches each year I heated a land Phill I live across from JFS

[@equid0x]

@@flexx_cv9310 The soccer field and old kmart plaza are built over the old endicott dump. EJ used to dump tannery scraps and other stuff in there. I don't know about the school itself but wouldn't be surprised if it was also built on the landfill. In the 80s the kmart plaza had rotted out caverns underneath that had to have supports installed and the parking lot was a disaster area - wildly uneven with giant potholes everywhere. If JFS was subsiding, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

[@alixhice]

My mother (now nearly 94) lost her father to esophageal cancer from exposure to the harsh chemicals working at the Endicott Johnson tannery back in the 1920’s -1930’s. She told me the other day about walking with her friend to the factory to bring her friend’s father “lunch” on the night shift. She remembered the stench of the tannery and said that when they returned to the fresh air outside, it had a strange medicinal smell. Weird.

[@flexx_cv9310]

In endicott it terrific what happened there and people are still living there in the 60s or 70s there was a chemical spill at IBM

[@birdleso]

Both my grandparents worked in that building.

[@workingcountry1776]

Thankfully tanning can be done with less harsh chemicals these days. Would be nice to have mass employment w/ good worker and community treatment again in NY

[@franimal007]

Our own little Detroit.

[@joemancini327]

franimal007 demolished

[@franimal007]

Lol

[@joemancini327]

franimal007 not kidding

[@Str8robert]

Sadly, almost all of the Endicott Johnson Shoe factories and warehouses are gone. Which way EJ?

[@funone8716]

That place is way too rotted to be walking around in. It would be really dumb to fall thru a rotten floor and die in a place like that.

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

Fo shizzle

[@diegogalvan1810]

I thought it was a computer factory lol, I went and visited last year and saw that is mostly empty but had a LOT of old computers so I figured it was a computer factory. Nice video tho!

[@jeffreydunn7096]

I remember it well I grew up a block away I remember riding down the hill by the park looking at the factory in a new 1964 Ford van he was going to buy it he said I can't afford it it's 35 hundred dollars he worked there all his life I worked there 13 years I watched it crumble so sad let the good times roll 😂😂😂

[@jeffreydunn7096]

Thank you grampa 🙂

[@TheJmv34]

Which way E-J?

[@celladon4948]

Is there any guards there? And did y’all cut your own hole in the fence, or was it already there? I’m tryna go soon.

[@joemancini327]

hole in the fence

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

Yea, there was a hole in the perimeter fence.

[@flexx_cv9310]

Where do u live??....like state wise

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

@@flexx_cv9310 See my channel name.

[@pup9et]

Cool, but dont let EPD catch you in there or coming outa there. They WILL arrest you for trespassing.

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

Username checks out

[@pup9et]

@@FloridaWaterAdventures lol Lived in endicott for 20+yrs. I watched as my sons friends all got nailed.

[@equid0x]

EPD has always had a reputation for being assholes.

[@mikemancini313]

Lol

[@joemancini327]

How did you ever get in their my god!

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

Hole in the perimeter fence and then climbed through hole in boarded up window.

[@shadowdragonx07]

Greg Hammack heys i happend tu also live near E.J & mind if i ask if chu wanna go exsploring inside E.J wif meh :3 ? oh if soo we will need wire cutters as the holes in the fence are all blocked -.-

[@pranklandtvlol5414]

Joe Mancini they blew it up

[@joemancini327]

@@pranklandtvlol5414 yeah we watched the demolition.

[@logo8009]

It's called trespassing. I know a few people that were arrested for going in. Also homeless would go in and start fires to stay warm. The building has been since destroyed.

[@michaeloram6957]

P I work for the John a Frye boot corporation in Marlborough Massachusettsit's a shame that all the shoe factories are gone today when they when they close a lot of people lost their jobs what a shame is no more blue collar work in this country today

[@joemancini327]

Demolished

[@FloridaWaterAdventures]

wnbf.com/demolition-work-starting-at-west-endicott-ej-site/

[@joemancini327]

Yeah