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General Discussion => WHATEVER => Topic started by: 1992 on July 28, 2009, 06:24:26 PM
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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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If we had any I'd skate em.
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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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how about a deserted city quarter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varosha_(Famagusta)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2356/2690261772_ddd9bc2d4c.jpg)
sealed off and deserted since 1974
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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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(http://67.199.7.46/_media/imgs/articles/a170_sanzhi1.jpg)
(http://67.199.7.46/_media/imgs/articles/a170_Prypiat1.jpg)
http://www.oddee.com/item_96462.aspx
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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
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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shit like this always makes me think of zombies or some sort of "end of the world" situation
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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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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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i wound up looking at this type of shit for 3 hours this thread delivers
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i love abandoned shit. this site is the bommmmb
http://www.infiltration.org/
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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/
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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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollepel_Island
http://everydayilive.com/freedomtunnel/
http://www.mechanised.org.uk/
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Roosevelt%20Island/roosevelt.html
http://www.forgottendetroit.com/
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/234421/
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Theres a bunch of abandoned buildings in clearwater that are about to be bought up by the scientologists.
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Funny this pops up right now. Pretty much sums up my summer plans in Vienna.
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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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel (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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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abandoned tank base in russia! crazy
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1910
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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
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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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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
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.
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http://englishrussia.com/?p=1910
slow running server aside, englishrussia is a great website
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http://englishrussia.com/?p=1910
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
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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.
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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
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
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:
(http://content.cdlib.org/dynaxml/data/13030/s7/kt609nd3s7/files/kt609nd3s7-d3e9533.jpg)
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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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://media.englishrussia.com/soviet_discs/1_032.jpg)
(http://media.englishrussia.com/soviet_discs/1_001.jpg)
http://englishrussia.com/?p=2081
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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
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
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:
(http://content.cdlib.org/dynaxml/data/13030/s7/kt609nd3s7/files/kt609nd3s7-d3e9533.jpg)
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.
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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
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that book is actually pretty awesome! i flipped through it at work a few times. rad shit for sure
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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
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
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:
(http://content.cdlib.org/dynaxml/data/13030/s7/kt609nd3s7/files/kt609nd3s7-d3e9533.jpg)
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.
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.
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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.
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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
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speaking of nyc subway people.. there is a documentary called dark days. i could only find clips of it on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh4s78Db5OQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgi_N0hQqr4
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dark days is such a sick film.
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dark days is such a sick film.
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feral houses in detroit.
http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2009/07/feral-houses.html
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moar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOpCxsfxsDk&feature=related
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF7BLOPMoZk&feature=related
and one with fireworks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhpjjHvTssM&feature=related
this is a pic of an abandoned skate park:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/dscn0077backoz.jpg)
from the front with cops always hanging:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/dscn0072copzalid.jpg)
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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.
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dark days is such a sick film.
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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
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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
(http://www.mattolah.com/images/Pictures/Mar-08/IMG_0814.jpg)
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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/
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looks like this video was shot partly in the Detroit train depot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfnmCOUieLw
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So was this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqz1ojIQTBk
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I thought it was only me with a fetish for dilapidation. The Aral sea is pretty interesting to, as it also involves loads of ace shipwrecks.
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moar abandoned atmosphere:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/dscn0575robot.jpg)
this is some world class mold:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/dscn0402hangers.jpg)
this is inside the abandoned skatepark previously shown. It was called East Cost Terminal:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/dscn0117couchoz.jpg)
a giant novelty chair in an abandoned furniture maker's store:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/100_2970urbchair.jpg)
furniture place:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/100_2940reddoor.jpg)
abandoned shoe factory:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/101_1118me.jpg)
a lumber store that became a "chop shop", and later burned down:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/101_0936cars.jpg)
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oh no shit east coast terminal - i used to skate that place all the time 1999-2001'ish. they used to have beast of the east contests there. fucking ruled but i heard they ended because they were charging like 15 dollar sessions.
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I didn't live here when it was opened. The place is condemned now. Ramps and shit rotting in piles in the back.
I keep looking for the pics I have of them. The cops sit out front for hours on end cuz people still skate around
the debris, and tag the building.
Another good forum about abandoned buildings is called:
Deggi5
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was exploring an abandoned house TODAY,,,as seen here:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/107_1032self.jpg)
and found a shoe box from the shoe factory already show,..but one of particular
interest here,
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/107_1041ejbox.jpg)
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In the 70's a man, Johnny Bob Harrell, founded the Christian-Patriots Defense League, an anti-Semitic survivalist group involved in paramilitary activity and "martial arts" training.. These "Christian Corps" were training and preparing for guerilla warfare against a christ-hating conspricacy. He established a 55 acre, tax-exempt church in my hometown of Louisville, Illinois. Pretty big deal considering my hometown consists of 1300 people. He would allow people to stay there and they would work for him (kinda creepy in that Jonestown kinda way). He was generally hated from what i've heard (most of this town is made up of very conservative farm folk). He was eventually accused of being a communist and eventually went into hiding, but his place still exists. Apparently it's a replica of George Washington's place. He doesn't live there and his brother goes there rarely to check up on it.
It's just crazy the amount of shit this guy owns. He has trailer after trailer behind his mansion, each of them dedicated to one certain item (one is just FULL of newspapers). Kids used to break into it constantly, which I can highly blame them, it's like the ultimate thrift store and he doesn't seem to mind - the key to the place hasn't moved in years. Plenty of old cars sitting out front, a plane in the back, and a very large boat falling apart. He also keeps the radio on blaring at all times, possibly to try to scare off trespassers?
Sorry for the history lesson. I just think it's cool. A photo:
(http://americanfraud.com/images/CPDL%20Harrell%20home%201981.JPG)
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I wish I lived near there. I would take a look. That really does look like Mt. Vernon.
Here is a temporary video of the house shown above with the Endicott Johnson
"skateboarders" shoe box:
I couldnt really think in the blazing heat yesterday,...so it aint great,
but it's only 30 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rSSSmgPovM&feature=channel_page
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oooh abandoned shit is fun. in linfield, pa there's this abandonded vodka distillery or some shit (someone correct me if i'm wrong). but it was tight, old newspapers from the 50s and even a porno mag in there some where.
here's a few pics that i got from that.
(http://www.photoblog.com/photos/14490-1168320926-0.jpg)
(http://www.photoblog.com/photos/14490-1168321167-1.jpg)
this pic is actually on the roof. something came over me and i couldn't hold my shit in anymore so....
(http://www.photoblog.com/photos/14490-1168321167-0.jpg)
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There are many other huge sites that have not been flattened into corn fields.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMz0mPPAAM
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when i was younger me and my friends would play in this huge abandoned home and garden type of place, we'd skate, goof around, smash lights, break windows and smoke a ton of weed in there then one day a bum was hanging out iin there and he threatened us with a broken bottle and we never came back
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Wahoooo. I got in a great place last night. It was the country club of a company so large I dare not name it.
Here are 48 short sweet seconds :
http://www.youtube.com/user/jtcolfax
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Wahoooo. I got in a great place last night. It was the country club of a company so large I dare not name it.
Here are 48 short sweet seconds :
http://www.youtube.com/user/jtcolfax
mint! any more footage?
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I didn't do any live video, it was dark as hell. I am working on some of the photos...here are a few.
Somewhere I have a really gay piece of graffiti that says something like "skateboarding rulez" or something LIKE that:
but here are a few stills for now. This place was fantastic:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/107_1256gymfloor.jpg)
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/107_1170me.jpg)
as clean as this game room looks, the whole room almost collapsed under me, major flood damage:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/107_1159pooltable.jpg)
sand from one of the stage curtain sand bags all over the floor:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q270/jtcolfax/107_1239sand.jpg)
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ppl cruising around fresno,..draining pools at abandoned houses, and skating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lGDwveX6Bc&feature=related
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my moms a realtor, we used to go digging through foreclosed homes and shit. always found neat little trinkets.
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Ted Kennedy + Abandoned Building..............(too soon?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5etHdHlra7k
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Someone find and post the pics of the gay dudes in superhero costumes sucking each other off in an abandoned warehouse. They rule.
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the inevitable bump
http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/
http://www.terrastories.com/bearings/abandoned-catskills-hotels
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thank you for bringing this back. i took an urban geography class and we spent alot of time on urban decay, focusing alot on detroit and gary indiana. i was siked cause growing up we would always explore buildings trying to build little skateparks, always stumbling upon some bums smoking crack and various other things we should have had no business with at 14 years old. we once built a little park in a part of an abandoned mall and found an old liquor store in there with a bunch of bottles of booze still in there. we were young and didnt really drink much then so we just smashed a shit load of them, then we took a bunch and layed them on a bums bed that we found on the other side of the building, though i'm sure he knew about it and had been drinking out of there for a while.
apparently in detroit there are just entire blocks of abandoned neighborhoods.
http://www.takepart.com/news/2008/08/13/detroit-home-sells-for-1/
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http://www.takepart.com/news/2008/08/13/detroit-home-sells-for-1/
ha, it'd be awesome to just walk out of a convenience store with a few bucks change and say, i'm gonna buy two properties with this.
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http://www.takepart.com/news/2008/08/13/detroit-home-sells-for-1/
ha, it'd be awesome to just walk out of a convenience store with a few bucks change and say, i'm gonna buy two properties with this.
true, but then your stuck paying the property taxes, making it a bit less appealing
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byxVwec_IaI
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the inevitable bump
http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/
http://www.terrastories.com/bearings/abandoned-catskills-hotels
amazing. wish they put up a few more shots of the hotel.
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the inevitable bump
http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/
http://www.terrastories.com/bearings/abandoned-catskills-hotels
Weird. A friend of mine in NY just went and shot photos of one of the hotels last month. I'll link them in a bit.
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www.weirdnj.com has a bunch of shit in nj. asbury park has some cool abandoned stuff. the town is getting better unfortunately... i only say unfortunately because i kind of like the gritty, deserted feel it has. the casino is my fav. im pretty sure fred gall had some footage in here smashing some shit.... im too lazy to find the clip, but heres a pic of it.
(http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles27908.jpg)
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http://abandonedireland.com/start.html
Some of these places are so rad. I need my own car!
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you could turn one of those into the ultimate clubhouse and have an 80's movie style street gang
that'd rule
AKA the foot hideout in the TMNT movie
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here are some of the photos I said my buddy took. it's grossinger's.
(http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs215.snc3/22241_10150093956975080_765780079_11281922_634045_n.jpg)
almost the same angle of the grossingers pool from the website...
(http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs215.snc3/22241_10150093958870080_765780079_11281966_7897264_n.jpg)
(http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs295.ash1/22241_10150093960035080_765780079_11281997_5410255_n.jpg)
(http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs295.ash1/22241_10150093960445080_765780079_11282016_1372812_n.jpg)
(http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs295.ash1/22241_10150093957510080_765780079_11281935_3983423_n.jpg)
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8698184.stm
unfinished ghost town in china.
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this thread is awesome, the first time i went in an abandoned building was an old insane asylum by my hosue wiht my mom, it was crazy they had this rat trap that lined up like five rats then guillotined there heads at once, it was fucked. but cool. rip mom good times.
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ppl cruising around fresno,..draining pools at abandoned houses, and skating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lGDwveX6Bc&feature=related
al jazeera?