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Abandoned skyscrapers
« on: July 28, 2009, 06:24:26 PM »
Does anyone here go prowling through abandoned buildings? I have gone into quite a few here in my city but most of them have been rebuilt and are occupied these days..."urban exploring" if you will.....I was just cruising through youtube and ran across these videos of Detroit and it really got me wondering....it is really that bad over there? I know there are nice places there or so I've heard but this is just too much.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbGxIR8JTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYP7cXmZPvQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gep91lWjvvo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MohVvbja8

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2009, 06:30:41 PM »
If we had any I'd skate em.

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2009, 06:31:35 PM »
Yes it is!  Detroit is not doing that well.  I read an article about a guy in Detroit who sells racoons for food.  But then again, he is a success at that.  but still

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2009, 06:36:06 PM »
how about a deserted city quarter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varosha_(Famagusta)


sealed off and deserted since 1974

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2009, 06:56:28 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_island

this place is trippy too, an entire island with buildings that are just crumbling

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2009, 06:57:21 PM »
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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2009, 07:24:03 PM »
Gary,Indiana.....the once booming steel town of 200,000 and the birthplace of Micheal Jackson.
 
Gary in the 1960's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PISaDmq73LQ

Gary today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx0PBrGSyN0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx_l3UbUA9E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffJNX7eAAhA

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2009, 10:35:08 PM »
shit like this always makes me think of zombies or some sort of "end of the world" situation
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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2009, 11:04:39 PM »
you could turn one of those into the ultimate clubhouse and have an 80's movie style street gang
that'd rule

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2009, 01:59:24 AM »
Some forums for that kind of stuff. Some really rad buildings and complexes in there...

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/index.php

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/index.php
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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2009, 02:49:43 AM »
i wound up looking at this type of shit for 3 hours this thread delivers

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2009, 02:58:20 AM »
i love abandoned shit. this site is the bommmmb
http://www.infiltration.org/

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2009, 03:36:23 AM »
double post! after you visit the above gold, and are still looking for more, here's some other awesome ones:

cincinnati's abandoned subway system, built between 1920-1925 but NEVER even used
http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/subway.html

this one's in russian, but there's a whole lot of sick pics of a secret Soviet underground submarine base
http://russos.livejournal.com/210363.html

oradour-sur-glane is an abandoned town that was wrecked by WWII. haunting shit.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Oradour-sur-Glane/Tour/index.html

this wasn't something abandoned (it's been demolished), but the Kowloon Walled City is something worth checking out
it was a fucking compressed tiny city where within its walls there were practically no laws- cops we'rent allowed in, and was under triad rule for a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
http://www.archidose.org/KWC/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_island

this place is trippy too, an entire island with buildings that are just crumbling
vice had a great article on this.
http://www.viceland.com/wp/2009/04/battleship-island-japans-rotting-metropolis/

i've always wanted to go to Kolmansop, namibia, just to take photos. a cute little town buried in sand.
http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/kolmanskop-ghost-town-buried-in-sand.html

the abandoned chernobyl ruins are the most haunting of all. here are some great pics, and some in HDR which i can't stand but yeah- it's chernobyl.
http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-today-a-creepy-story-told-in-pictures/
« Last Edit: July 29, 2009, 04:06:09 AM by loophole »

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2009, 06:14:48 AM »
i fucked around in an abandon building and it was super dark in this one room, i couldn't see anything.  so i pulled out my cell phone for light and i look up and see a fuckin noose hanging there!
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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2009, 08:14:42 AM »
this thread is great.

my only abandoned buidling adventures happened when i used to live in perth, western australia in high school and they had this building in downtown perth called skate city that was an abandoned roller rink from the 70\80s that had banked walls. the place was several stories high and you had to go up the fire escape and then come down through the top of the building. the skating rink part was up high, like on the 3rd floor or something and they had all this diy stuff in there and then bums had set up beds and things like that in the rooms throughout. used to always be fun to skate there and was one spot that was good to go if you ran into some girls downtown and wanted to find a spot to chill.

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #16 on: July 29, 2009, 08:23:49 AM »
I've been subscribed to this loon's youtube channel for awhile.
He's really into exploring abandoned shit. Did I mention he's crazy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq8xU2HHasA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OSFG5L-piM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzEjQ3uQ-4
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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #17 on: July 29, 2009, 08:27:54 AM »
I've only ever hit up abandoned warehouses, offices and a country club. I bet an abandoned skyscraper would be rad to walk/fuck around in.

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2009, 09:59:23 AM »
There was an abandoned midde school building in my town.  My friend build all this shit to skate in the gym, it was awesome.  It was fun to walk around it too, some cool shit left around.

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2009, 10:25:13 AM »
Im headed to the south soon, on the way we're passing through Detroit... Any notewrothy spots to check out there, both skate and non-skate?

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #20 on: July 29, 2009, 11:21:02 AM »
Yes it is!  Detroit is not doing that well.  I read an article about a guy in Detroit who sells racoons for food.  But then again, he is a success at that.  but still


http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090402/METRO08/904020395/1439/METRO08/To%20urban%20hunter%20%20next%20meal%20is%20scampering%20by


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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #21 on: July 29, 2009, 11:31:47 AM »
Theres a bunch of abandoned buildings in clearwater that are about to be bought up by the scientologists.

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #22 on: July 29, 2009, 11:37:18 AM »
Funny this pops up right now. Pretty much sums up my summer plans in Vienna.

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #23 on: July 29, 2009, 11:37:33 AM »
Here are some abandoned shopping malls..

Dixie Square Mall-Harvey,Illinois(The Blues Brothers mall scene was filmed here)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjNzvRs_Egg

Police 52 times called to abandoned Bannister Mall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZSqdjIM7Bg

Abandoned Bannister Mall in Kansas City,Missouri(demolition has been started...or is done by now)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCOuJSJLNOM

I'd like to post some pictures of the old Whiting Bros. gas stations along Route 66 soon. Thanks for all of links posted in this thread....it's keeping me busy.


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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #24 on: July 29, 2009, 12:18:46 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

They used to photoshop this sucker out of pictures because it was so unsightly.

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #25 on: July 29, 2009, 12:23:49 PM »
hahah sweet, i never checked out any in detroit but did a ton of exploring in all the cracked out abandon motels and hotels in flint. theres a rad old bank too with a vault and shit. fun times.

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #26 on: July 29, 2009, 01:12:40 PM »
I live an hour south of Detroit (toledo) and I must say that detroit is the most mysterious and interesting cities in America. The history, triumphs and failures really show up in the streets.
 On a wrong turn one time, my buddy and I stumbled upon a 10 story building that had no windows. It was the dead of winter and pitch black, but we went in anyway. 

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #27 on: July 29, 2009, 01:59:55 PM »
there was this abandoned elementary school down the road from me. hah i just remembered that the older kids in town used to talk about how maralyn manson used to live in there and for some reason everyone was too freaked out to go check it out. dumb little kids

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #28 on: July 29, 2009, 04:39:06 PM »
A friend in Savannah, GA lifted up a manhole cover in a parking lot and took us into this awesome brick and tile arched tunnel. 
It supposedly led to a slave graveyard but was blocked off. 

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Re: Abandoned skyscrapers
« Reply #29 on: July 29, 2009, 06:28:18 PM »
I haven't had any abandoned building experiences, but this thread made me remember that a few stores and car dealerships around here have closed down. Maybe I'll find a way to check those out before I move to the city.
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