Pittsburgh Glass Plant, California

At the old rail siding of Bartlett, on the east side of the highway, and the west shore of Owens Lake, the ruins of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company's chemical plant are some of the few structures between Olancha and Lone Pine. The modernist lab building and the large sheds and silos have been largely unused since the 1960s, when the company ceased crystallizing and processing carbonate compounds mined from the exposed lake bed. After it was abandoned, the plant was bought by a Dr. McCabe, a medical valve inventor, who used it recreationally, along with some Hollywood friends. Though Dr. McCabe died some years ago, people who knew him still own the building.