# Alan Parsons/ELO Fans: What Factory Is This? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-parsons-elo-fans-what-factory-is-this/755230 "2016-05-20T15:34:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-parsons-elo-fans-what-factory-is-this/755230/1 "2016-05-20T15:34:26Z")
On the cover of the Alan Parsons Project album entitled “Ammonia Avenue” is a very distinct looking factory with colorful piping. I believe the same building appears as a backdrop for [this ELO video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn_XsOUC9s0)of “Calling America”…about 15 seconds into the video, and many more shots throughout the video. It is unusual that any factory would use such colorful piping. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-parsons-elo-fans-what-factory-is-this/755230/2 "2016-05-20T15:51:07Z")
I don’t have the answer, but would like to know. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-parsons-elo-fans-what-factory-is-this/755230/3 "2016-05-20T16:49:56Z")
Is it not the Pompidou Center in Paris? [![](https://beckygoesabroad.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/img_5999edit.jpg) ](https://beckygoesabroad.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/img_5999edit.jpg) Wikipedia says that it is in the ELO video. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-parsons-elo-fans-what-factory-is-this/755230/4 "2016-05-20T16:59:32Z")
According to [Ammonia Avenue]([http://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/ammonia](http://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/ammonia) avenue) > [@](#): > > Eric met John Harvey Jones, Chairman of ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries), on a Concord trip to New York. He invited Eric to visit the ICI plant in Billingham England in the hope that he might be creatively inspired. The first thing Eric saw was a street with miles of pipes, no people, no trees and a sign that said ‘Ammonia Avenue’ > [@](#): > > The cover of the album is a mandala split picture using a four part split of a photograph of the Avenue itself in Billingham. But, I have no idea about the background in the music video. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-parsons-elo-fans-what-factory-is-this/755230/5 "2016-05-20T17:06:07Z")
> [@awldune](#): > > Is it not the Pompidou Center in Paris? > > [https://beckygoesabroad.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/img\_5999edit.jpg](https://beckygoesabroad.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/img_5999edit.jpg) > > Wikipedia says that it is in the ELO video. Indeed. Good find. Shot in 1986. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-parsons-elo-fans-what-factory-is-this/755230/6 "2016-05-20T17:41:25Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Indeed. Good find. Shot in 1986. If you have been to the Pompidou it is very easy to remember!