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Not Much Left of Colonie's Tobin's First Prize Building! Look!
Not Much Left of Colonie's Tobin's First Prize Building! Look!
Not Much Left of Colonie's Tobin's First Prize Building! Look!
Tobin's First Prize operated from 1924 until 1981 in the Colonie building as a meat packing plant. They also manufactured fertilizers, glue, and animal hides, and it became a meat packing operation according to Spotlight News. There were offices, a boiler room, freezers, coolers, a machine shop, two incinerators, a hog pen, and a laboratory. There was a scare recently where demolition had to be halted to deal with a possible ammonia leak. Now all that stands is the 200-foot smokestack. There is no word of when that will be coming down.