Author Topic: Abandoned skyscrapers (Read 10525 times)

datsnare · « **Reply #30 on:** July 29, 2009, 08:14:27 PM »

is detroit really that bad? honestly i have no idea. i went to highschool in the city and yeah the amount of abandoned buildings is quite overwhelming. it's really odd to hear stories of how the city was when my parents grew up there. detroit's a pretty interesting place, unfortunately we get shit on in the news on a daily basis.

vegan*shawn · « **Reply #31 on:** July 29, 2009, 08:21:51 PM »

I grew up near Akron, Ohio and in the 80's a bunch of buildings got condemned due to asbestos. Some friends of mine went in and built a skate park on one of the floors in an abandoned building, it was super fun.

kilgore. · « **Reply #32 on:** July 29, 2009, 08:31:24 PM »

that's exactly what me and my friends did to an abandoned building that had asbestos and used to be used as a fridge manufactor, we built it on the 2nd floor. it was the best thing any of us ever did probably, but also dumb cause of the asbestos part.

vegan*shawn · « **Reply #33 on:** July 29, 2009, 08:50:43 PM »

Quote from: kilgore. on July 29, 2009, 08:31:24 PM

that's exactly what me and my friends did to an abandoned building that had asbestos and used to be used as a fridge manufactor, we built it on the 2nd floor. it was the best thing any of us ever did probably, but also dumb cause of the asbestos part.

The building these guys did it in was some sort of old rubber manufacturer. I guess they had a secret spine ramp that only certain locals knew about on one of the floors, never got to skate it myself.

loophole · « **Reply #34 on:** August 06, 2009, 03:04:28 AM »

abandoned tank base in russia! crazy
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1910

EricLogan · « **Reply #35 on:** August 06, 2009, 04:23:57 AM »

I heard a report on the news a year or two ago that there were supposedly 75 or so abandoned warehouses on the port of Tacoma. With epic cinderblock ledge-spots in mind, me and my buddy went exploring. Unfortunitely, every warehouse missing windows and roofing we made our way into were somehow still fully operational on the inside.

balls

natenola forever · « **Reply #36 on:** August 06, 2009, 06:05:31 AM »

there's an abandoned bomb shelter here in New Orleans thats pretty cool, the city doesnt care to much about it so from time to time people will go pop the lock and open it up. This guy mike made a video where he went down in it with waders cuz the bottom level is filled with water.
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carbonite · « **Reply #37 on:** August 06, 2009, 08:25:28 AM »

Quote from: Sleazy on July 29, 2009, 08:14:42 AM

this thread is great.

yeah especially that detroit train depot...fucking unbelievable...i think i looked at some site about it for 3 hr one nite

Quote from: 1992 on July 29, 2009, 11:37:33 AM

Here are some abandoned shopping malls..

thanks for those links...dead malls are fucking awesome. i became interested in them because the foundation spot that i skate all the time is on the site of one. www.deadmalls.com is a fantastic resource as well.

sergioflorez · « **Reply #38 on:** August 06, 2009, 09:04:27 AM »

Quote from: loophole on August 06, 2009, 03:04:28 AM

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1910

slow running server aside, englishrussia is a great website

Stinky Wizzleteets · « **Reply #39 on:** August 06, 2009, 09:20:01 AM »

Quote from: sergioflorez on August 06, 2009, 09:04:27 AM

Quote from: loophole on August 06, 2009, 03:04:28 AM
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http://englishrussia.com/?p=1910
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slow running server aside, englishrussia is a great website

The bitter, hated filled Nationalism and Racism in some of the comments is an interesting read

Jack · « **Reply #40 on:** August 06, 2009, 09:32:26 AM »

Quote from: loophole on August 06, 2009, 03:04:28 AM

abandoned tank base in russia! crazy
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1910

I'm almost positive that that's where Andrei Tarkovsky filmed Stalker. Probably the bleakest and most transcendent film ever to be brought into existence.
Everyone reading this thread should watch that film. In fact every living person should be made to do so as a test of their mettle.

Ronald Wilson Reagan · « **Reply #41 on:** August 06, 2009, 01:19:46 PM »

Quote from: 1992 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

Gary today.

Gary is so fucked up its unbelievable. Everybody around here acts like Oakland and Richmond are the most fucked up and delapedated cities in the world, but they are outright nice compared to cities in the midwest like Gary, Detroit, or Flint.

Where I live in Oakland there are plenty of abandoned and randomly explorable areas. Right by where I live is the old abandoned amtrak station, seen here while it was still running in the 50's-60's era:

Sorry, no image of it presently, just picture an empty fenced off paking lot, boarded up windows, a lot of rust and graffiti on that image. Abandoned factories and such are also everywhere, though sketchy crackheads tend to lurk in them.
Its inevitable somebody brings up the NYC subway people right?

sergioflorez · « **Reply #42 on:** August 06, 2009, 03:16:01 PM »

Quote from: Stinky Wizzleteets on August 06, 2009, 09:20:01 AM

The bitter, hated filled Nationalism and Racism in some of the comments is an interesting read

wow, i never even read the comments. there was a compilation of russian train photos, and i was pretty much hooked. good site for pictures at least.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2081

tanhoe · « **Reply #43 on:** August 06, 2009, 05:35:10 PM »

Quote from: The Gipper on August 06, 2009, 01:19:46 PM

Quote from: 1992 on July 28, 2009, 07:24:03 PM
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Gary,Indiana.....the once booming steel town of 200,000 and the birthplace of Micheal Jackson.

Gary in the 1960's

Gary today.

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Gary is so fucked up its unbelievable. Everybody around here acts like Oakland and Richmond are the most fucked up and delapedated cities in the world, but they are outright nice compared to cities in the midwest like Gary, Detroit, or Flint.

Where I live in Oakland there are plenty of abandoned and randomly explorable areas. Right by where I live is the old abandoned amtrak station, seen here while it was still running in the 50's-60's era:

Sorry, no image of it presently, just picture an empty fenced off paking lot, boarded up windows, a lot of rust and graffiti on that image. Abandoned factories and such are also everywhere, though sketchy crackheads tend to lurk in them.
Its inevitable somebody brings up the NYC subway people right?

gary is totally fucked. i used to go to chicago a lot back in the day when i still lived in michigan. you had to drive through that hell hole. it was pretty fucked. always made the ride go by a little bit faster. so much old shit to look at and see. never really jumped off the e way and explored... i guess looking back now i should have. it seemed like no one even lived there anymore. the craziest thing is it seemed like you could see chicago from there and how massive and populated it is.

1992 · « **Reply #44 on:** August 06, 2009, 05:48:13 PM »

I wasn't going to post this but since The Gipper did mention something I decided to post this link. It is a book called "The Mole People" and it is about the people living under New York City. It's a pretty interesting read if you like that sort of thing.

www.amazon.com/Mole-People-Life-Tunnels.../155652241X

tanhoe · « **Reply #45 on:** August 06, 2009, 05:51:28 PM »

that book is actually pretty awesome! i flipped through it at work a few times. rad shit for sure

Ronald Wilson Reagan · « **Reply #46 on:** August 06, 2009, 10:44:47 PM »

Quote from: tanhoe on August 06, 2009, 05:35:10 PM

Quote from: The Gipper on August 06, 2009, 01:19:46 PM
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Quote from: 1992 on July 28, 2009, 07:24:03 PM
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Gary,Indiana.....the once booming steel town of 200,000 and the birthplace of Micheal Jackson.

Gary in the 1960's

Gary today.

[close]
Gary is so fucked up its unbelievable. Everybody around here acts like Oakland and Richmond are the most fucked up and delapedated cities in the world, but they are outright nice compared to cities in the midwest like Gary, Detroit, or Flint.

Where I live in Oakland there are plenty of abandoned and randomly explorable areas. Right by where I live is the old abandoned amtrak station, seen here while it was still running in the 50's-60's era:

Sorry, no image of it presently, just picture an empty fenced off paking lot, boarded up windows, a lot of rust and graffiti on that image. Abandoned factories and such are also everywhere, though sketchy crackheads tend to lurk in them.
Its inevitable somebody brings up the NYC subway people right?
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gary is totally fucked. i used to go to chicago a lot back in the day when i still lived in michigan. you had to drive through that hell hole. it was pretty fucked. always made the ride go by a little bit faster. so much old shit to look at and see. never really jumped off the e way and explored... i guess looking back now i should have. it seemed like no one even lived there anymore. the craziest thing is it seemed like you could see chicago from there and how massive and populated it is.

Been through the city proper a few times. also to the riverboar casinos, going through those nasty steal plants is bad, but seriously, going through the streets is insane. Most buildings are boarded up or burnt out. It looks like a war or a natural disaster that never got repaired happened.

csumers · « **Reply #47 on:** August 07, 2009, 11:58:38 AM »

Quote from: loophole on August 06, 2009, 03:04:28 AM

abandoned tank base in russia! crazy
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1910

That would be a rad walk through. That place looks like they just picked up and left on the spur of the moment.

The site documenting the Detroit Theaters, schools, and train depot was really cool too. Someone else already said they read it for three hours..... my boss and I did as well.

tanhoe · « **Reply #48 on:** August 07, 2009, 12:01:25 PM »

so does anyone know anything around so cal? im sure theres some good shit. i actually heard of some military bases near like oceanside or something... im closer to LA, there should be TONS of shit

sergioflorez · « **Reply #49 on:** August 07, 2009, 12:33:31 PM »

speaking of nyc subway people.. there is a documentary called dark days. i could only find clips of it on youtube.

kilgore. · « **Reply #50 on:** August 07, 2009, 01:19:55 PM »

dark days is such a sick film.

vegan*shawn · « **Reply #51 on:** August 07, 2009, 09:55:07 PM »

Quote from: kilgore. on August 07, 2009, 01:19:55 PM

dark days is such a sick film.

sergioflorez · « **Reply #52 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:16:52 AM »

feral houses in detroit.

http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2009/07/feral-houses.html

coreydaff · « **Reply #53 on:** August 11, 2009, 10:07:43 AM »

moar:

and

and one with fireworks:

this is a pic of an abandoned skate park:

from the front with cops always hanging:

Donkey Lips · « **Reply #54 on:** August 12, 2009, 12:17:02 PM »

these things rule. i've been destroying my day by reading everyone's links. that underground russian sub base looks insane. when i used to live in upstate ny we used to go into the abandoned military bases near the airport. dudes just left everything. computers, file cabinets with files in them, furniture. it's like everyone just decided one day to never go back to work and left it all. i've been to centralia pennsylvania before and that's some weird shit. i just wish they didnt tear the buildings down.

tanhoe · « **Reply #55 on:** August 12, 2009, 12:58:01 PM »

Quote from: vegan*shawn on August 07, 2009, 09:55:07 PM

Quote from: kilgore. on August 07, 2009, 01:19:55 PM
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dark days is such a sick film.
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odp · « **Reply #56 on:** August 12, 2009, 01:37:17 PM »

there are a bunch of old abandoned factories and mills where i live. Scorcese worked on a film called Shutter Island that isn't out yet in one of them. It's got some WWII concentration camp scenes in it. It's funny cause we used to skate out there and burn down.

There's also a sick mental asylum type of place that has miles of underground tunnels. Like the stuff on lots of those sites, it was just boarded up and abandoned. It's creepy as fuck, there are bio hazard barrels all over the place and a factory out back way in the woods that is surrounded by super high barbed wire fences. We had a couple of dope skatepark spots built in the buildings though, however, they're now used for SWAT training and there are bullet holes all over the place.

thanks for starting this thread

Claude Tanner · « **Reply #57 on:** August 12, 2009, 10:17:41 PM »

There's an abandoned town in the mountains about an hour away from where I live. The local power company built the town to house the people who worked on the hydro dam right next to the city. In 2004 the company switched to full automation and booted everyone out of the town. It's pretty fucked they just left everything in the town. Theres a baseball diamond and there is still a poster advertising the firework show on july whatever 2004. All the houses still have furniture unless it's smashed up and there is the worlds smallest curling rink with tournament results and CO2 containers. I can't find any really good pictures

Stinky Wizzleteets · « **Reply #58 on:** August 13, 2009, 09:57:09 AM »

I don't know if this has been posted yet. Abandoned subway stations

http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/08/11/abandoned-subway-stations-around-the-world-photo-gallery/

carbonite · « **Reply #59 on:** August 13, 2009, 10:27:04 AM »

looks like this video was shot partly in the Detroit train depot:

Author Topic: Abandoned skyscrapers (Read 10525 times)

loophole

sergioflorez

Stinky Wizzleteets

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1992

sergioflorez

sergioflorez

odp

Stinky Wizzleteets