You may remember we just posted news of the Olympia Brewery being for sale….well now comes sad news from SeattleWeekly that thieves have been looting the former brewery:
An empty relic of history, lately things have been disappearing from the old Olympia beer brewery in Tumwater. In May thieves made off with a pair of bronze urns that marked the gravesites of Olympia Brewing Co. founder Leopold Schmidt and his son Peter. And earlier this week two copper cherubs and a planter featured in the brewery's "It's the water" fountain just outside the main gates also disappeared - though this time it was a precautionary measure.
As Rolf Boone of The Olympian reports, the commercial real estate broker of the brewery recently removed the bronze cherubs, fearing the sizeable decorations would meet the same fate as the bronze urns that disappeared in May. Weighing in at 115 pounds apiece, the bronze cherubs could theoretically fetch a nice chunk of change for an opportunistic scrap metal thief.
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