Author Topic: The Abandoned Thread (Read 116213 times)

Industrial Cafe · « **Reply #25 on:** July 06, 2009, 08:37:01 AM »

Quote from: Gordon on July 06, 2009, 08:19:08 AM

Quote from: Industrial Cafe on July 06, 2009, 08:09:16 AM
you can post anything you've found that was abandoned here if you want.

So it's okay to post those pictures of my hopes and dreams?

no. no posting of things dashed on the rocks.

ofreen · « **Reply #26 on:** July 06, 2009, 04:45:16 PM »

Levan, UT -

Pinhead · « **Reply #27 on:** July 06, 2009, 07:30:06 PM »

I've been to a lot of old abandoned limestone houses in central KS but I didn't have a camera at the time. This post piques my interest again. Only next time I'll have a camera (or at least my camera phone) with me.

alltherightpills · « **Reply #28 on:** July 06, 2009, 08:01:55 PM »

There are a number of blogs that I read semi-frequently that have posts on urban exploration and abandoned buildings. If you want to find abandonment and desolation on a post-apocalyptic level in America, look no further than Detroit.

This was a book depository for the Detroit Public School system:

More photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetjuniper/sets/72157603302647339/

These are the posts tagged "abandoned places" from the above photographer's blog:
http://www.sweet-juniper.com/search/label/abandoned%20places
In the first post, he goes to a street where 60 out of 66 houses are abandoned. It's unreal.

Here are some posts about abandoned places from around the world:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/02/abandoned-places.html

Here's an awesome photo set of storm drains in the UK:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jondoe_264/sets/72157594174809029/

Industrial Cafe · « **Reply #29 on:** July 06, 2009, 09:25:43 PM »

great links pills

Caaveman82 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 07, 2009, 10:46:19 AM »

I don't think there are TOO many ghost towns around Minnesota, but we have Fort Snelling which is pretty cool. You can walk around in the look out towers and they have some old grave yards, not transplanted either. I think I should go there soon it's been a few years.

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #31 on:** July 07, 2009, 11:19:32 AM »

Quote from: ofreen on July 04, 2009, 08:03:10 PM

Quote from: 754 on July 04, 2009, 07:57:31 PM

As a long time gas-n-oil collector, I am intrigued by old gas stations..

Yeah, me too. Walsenburg, CO.

Walsenburg, CO isn't a ghost town yet. It's getting there though...

Inkscars · « **Reply #32 on:** July 07, 2009, 11:38:07 AM »

I'm diggin up the most interesting thing i've seen on the history channel in a long time.
BRB!

Wow. The history channels website is terrible!
It was featured in the show "life after people"
It was a city that was founded as a place for steel mill workers to reside and relocate their familys to. When the factories went bankrupt, all of the people in the town just, moved away. Left everything standing. It showed buildings rotted and full of garbage from the homeless, beautiful, giant churches and such, all turning to rubble.
Population 0. It's cool. damnit i can't find it!

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #33 on:** July 07, 2009, 12:24:44 PM »

Pittsburgh?

bunghole · « **Reply #34 on:** July 07, 2009, 12:26:32 PM »

Quote from: Dukiedook on July 07, 2009, 12:24:44 PM

Pittsburgh?

Tee Hee.

Inkscars · « **Reply #35 on:** July 07, 2009, 01:21:20 PM »

Here's one....
but not the one I was looking for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prypiat,_Ukraine

Hush · « **Reply #36 on:** July 07, 2009, 03:58:05 PM »

Jezz Pills, I just wasted 2 hours going to those amazing sites and reading/looking at the photos of abandoned cities, wrecked ships....just amazing.

Dave-and-his-550 · « **Reply #37 on:** July 07, 2009, 04:17:47 PM »

Quote from: Industrial Cafe on July 04, 2009, 09:51:12 AM

I've always liked ghost towns

When ever I hear 'Ghost Town' I think of the game BF2 for PC. And the map 'Ghost Town' I LOVE that map!

Here are a few pictures of that ghost town...Wont be able to ride there though

ofreen · « **Reply #38 on:** July 07, 2009, 04:41:14 PM »

Quote from: Dukiedook on July 07, 2009, 11:19:32 AM

Quote from: ofreen on July 04, 2009, 08:03:10 PM
Quote from: 754 on July 04, 2009, 07:57:31 PM

As a long time gas-n-oil collector, I am intrigued by old gas stations..

Yeah, me too. Walsenburg, CO.

Walsenburg, CO isn't a ghost town yet. It's getting there though...

Didn't mean to imply it was. I like the place. Just posted a pic of an old gas station there for 754's appreciation.

Glenn Stauffer · « **Reply #39 on:** July 07, 2009, 04:49:32 PM »

The eastern Pennsylvania coal region is full of old abandoned structures. A group called Abandoned Mine Research Inc. gives tours of the area a couple times a year and I've had the pleasure of being able to explore some of the really cool old structures like the St Nicholas Breaker outside of Mahanoy City which was once the world's largest coal breaker and still relatively intact at the time - over 40 years after it was closed. Reading Anthracite owns the site and I hear they are cracking down on trespassers after people started stripping out metals when prices were so high last year. If you live near in the area, I highly recommend checking out the AMR group and asking about their tours.

Industrial Cafe · « **Reply #40 on:** July 07, 2009, 05:30:40 PM »

not to stick another digitally abandoned place in here, but....
There's a Russian p.c. game called "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl" that's pretty cool.
It takes place on a pretty precise rendered map of Chernobyl and Pripyat, as if a second explosion had happened and screwed people and wildlife up..

it would give you a pretty good tour of a place you really can't go, and you can shoot stuff while you're there.

Industrial Rat400f Killer · « **Reply #41 on:** July 08, 2009, 05:13:03 PM »

NW Oregon abandoned school.

Pinhead · « **Reply #42 on:** July 14, 2009, 04:04:43 AM »

Kansas City abandoned asphalt plant.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.064157,-94.73964&t=h&sll=39.002972,-94.82096&sspn=0.0896,0.059647&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=39.064715,-94.739935&spn=0.013812,0.033023&z=16&iwloc=A

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #43 on:** July 14, 2009, 04:15:01 AM »

Has anyone watched the History Channel series "Life After People?" Many of these scenes remind me of it. Pretty interesting series. For some reason I'm attracted to abandoned structures and they are the focus (no pun intended) of many of my photos.

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #44 on:** July 14, 2009, 09:39:06 AM »

Quote from: Bob Wessner on July 14, 2009, 04:15:01 AM

Has anyone watched the History Channel series "Life After People?" Many of these scenes remind me of it. Pretty interesting series. For some reason I'm attracted to abandoned structures and they are the focus (no pun intended) of many of my photos.

If you like that series read the book by Alan Weisman titled The World Without Us. Goes into details on what would happen to cities, bridges, power plants, and many other man made structures if we instantly vanished. Particularly interesting is how quickly New Yorks subways would be destroyed by water. This cable series may be based on the book but I am not sure not having cable so I have never seen it.

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #45 on:** July 14, 2009, 09:53:42 AM »

Your description of the book matches the series very closely. I lived in the New York area during my early

years. Yes, they have pumps to keep the subways dry, more or less. Many millions of gallons are pumped out daily.

Hush · « **Reply #46 on:** July 19, 2009, 12:51:59 AM »

I took my partner to the old Prison on the hill here in Napier, I worked a few shifts there before it was mothballed in 1993, now it is a tourist attraction but at night for $20 you can do a "fright night tour" and boy was my partner frightened ha ha.
I made her promise not to let onto the actors (who pretend to be guards and crazy prisoners) that I was a prison guard, it would have ruined their fun.
So while she is screaming all night I can't stop laughing lol.

Most entertaining and highly reccomended if you come to my part of the world.
Oh yeah and according to the paranormal test guys the place is definately haunted, and it is historical fact that at least 4 men and one woman were hung and burried there!

Industrial Cafe · « **Reply #47 on:** July 19, 2009, 07:22:51 AM »

that's cool, when I get bored with America, I'll definitely stop there.

ofreen · « **Reply #48 on:** July 19, 2009, 07:54:29 AM »

Council Hill, OK -

rhos1355 · « **Reply #49 on:** July 20, 2009, 04:13:33 AM »

Quote from: Industrial Cafe on July 19, 2009, 07:22:51 AM

that's cool, when I get bored with America, I'll definitely stop there.

New Zealand? Tried to go there once, but it was closed.

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Author Topic: The Abandoned Thread (Read 116213 times)

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