Author Topic: The Abandoned Thread (Read 116230 times)

Industrial Cafe · « **Reply #125 on:** August 20, 2009, 12:48:54 PM »

beautiful place!
you musta had quite the timer on that camera, to get way up there before it went off

Hush · « **Reply #126 on:** August 20, 2009, 02:10:34 PM »

Imagine the power bill to heat that place when it was in one piece?

ofreen · « **Reply #127 on:** August 20, 2009, 02:31:46 PM »

A cabin in the Matanuska River in Alaska -

Hush · « **Reply #128 on:** August 20, 2009, 02:40:25 PM »

I see the water utility is still hooked up!
Must ahve been built by the local council, no piles required.

ofreen · « **Reply #129 on:** August 20, 2009, 03:48:36 PM »

Quote from: Hush on August 20, 2009, 02:40:25 PM

I see the water utility is still hooked up!
Must ahve been built by the local council, no piles required.

It had washed about a 1/4 mile down the river and hung up on the gravel bar. Somebody had hooked a cable from it to a tree to keep it from going farther. Pic taken in 1980.

coldright · « **Reply #130 on:** August 20, 2009, 10:33:29 PM »

srust58, I'm just curious if the blond, the brunette, and the redhead in your photos is all one and the same?

754 · « **Reply #131 on:** August 20, 2009, 11:16:02 PM »

The railcar looks like 26 or 27 Ford.. note cowl vent..

Hush · « **Reply #132 on:** August 22, 2009, 03:51:00 PM »

Hmm I wish I could get away with that, "oh it's OK dear just me and Sally going for a cross country ride, back next week".

rhos1355 · « **Reply #133 on:** August 23, 2009, 02:38:41 AM »

Maybe he's a Mormon.
Wish they allowed polygamy here in the UK. There'd be a lot less Divorce cases in the courts.

coldright · « **Reply #134 on:** August 23, 2009, 06:27:03 AM »

Nice pics srust58... keep em coming.

ofreen · « **Reply #135 on:** August 23, 2009, 11:10:33 AM »

An old farm south of Rapid City, SD -

ofreen · « **Reply #136 on:** August 23, 2009, 11:27:16 AM »

Quote from: srust58 on August 23, 2009, 11:16:00 AM

Nice shot.

Thanks. Those castle photos of yours are pretty cool.

Hush · « **Reply #137 on:** August 24, 2009, 03:36:57 AM »

I always feel kinda sad to see abandoned buildings especially farms and houses, I imagine the people who lived/died/grew up there, dreamed there.....sad really.

coldright · « **Reply #138 on:** August 24, 2009, 10:11:21 AM »

srust58, it looks like we have similiar adventuring styles, motorcycles and sailboats included. I'm thinking to myself, hmmm... what color should I dye my hair?

Quote from: Hush on August 24, 2009, 03:36:57 AM

I always feel kinda sad to see abandoned buildings especially farms and houses, I imagine the people who lived/died/grew up there, dreamed there.....sad really.

For me, there is a feeling of introspection. Time passes so slowly for us humans and those abandoned buildings, farms, and houses always serve to remind me how truly fleeting here our time really is. Entire lives are lived in a space that now returns to dust.

Industrial Cafe · « **Reply #139 on:** August 24, 2009, 11:42:50 AM »

Quote from: coldright on August 24, 2009, 10:11:21 AM

For me, there is a feeling of introspection. Time passes so slowly for us humans and those abandoned buildings, farms, and houses always serve to remind me how truly fleeting here our time really is. Entire lives are lived in a space that now returns to dust.

+1

GoatBaSS · « **Reply #140 on:** August 24, 2009, 12:40:08 PM »

And our abandoned buildings in the USA are infants compared to others around the world.

Hush · « **Reply #141 on:** August 24, 2009, 05:27:22 PM »

New Zealand was only settled 200 years ago (by Europeans) and anything the Maori built was of sticks and wood so that is all gone.
There is some very interesting funeral caves that the Govt wont allow anyone to investigate, probably because it would upset the Maori who claim to have arrived here to a deserted country thousands of years ago.
Early photos show stone hewen coffins of European look with fair haired tall Euro style bodies in them.
Guess we will ahve to wait for more enlightened less PC times to know the truth.

Here is a very interesting read. http://www.kaimaiview.co.nz/an_unpalitable_truth.htm

ofreen · « **Reply #142 on:** August 25, 2009, 05:31:15 PM »

Cabin, Girdwood, AK

BobbyR · « **Reply #143 on:** August 25, 2009, 05:56:06 PM »

Quote from: Hush on August 24, 2009, 05:27:22 PM

New Zealand was only settled 200 years ago (by Europeans) and anything the Maori built was of sticks and wood so that is all gone.
There is some very interesting funeral caves that the Govt wont allow anyone to investigate, probably because it would upset the Maori who claim to have arrived here to a deserted country thousands of years ago.
Early photos show stone hewen coffins of European look with fair haired tall Euro style bodies in them.
Guess we will ahve to wait for more enlightened less PC times to know the truth.

Here is a very interesting read. http://www.kaimaiview.co.nz/an_unpalitable_truth.htm

Interesting article. In our local area there are stone shelters and some other undisclosed sites that appear to be Norse in origin. The are not disclosed to protect them from vandals so they can be studied, not for any politically correct reason. Columbus never landed on the US mainland. The Norseman may have. Speculation is that they battled with the Indians, and either left, assimilated, or were killed.

Hush · « **Reply #144 on:** August 25, 2009, 09:10:31 PM »

Nah it's political stuff alright, you see the early settlers got the Maori to sign a "TREATY" The Treaty of Waitangi to be precise, this stopped the warring between the new settlers and the other tribes who had been battling each other as well.
Maori have this dread fear that their claim to being the first people to settle here will be in dispute if it is found that some other group arrived here first.
A smaller group of earlier natives, the Moriori were driven from the NZ mainland by the arriving Maori and escaped to the Chatham Islands, where the Maori caught up with and ate most of them.
Billions of dollars are given to the Maori every year as "settlement" for the lands they "lost" when the white man turned up, unfortunately this process of paying for land is never ending as this will be the third time the NZ Government has "bought" the land back and paid "compensation" to the many many Maori tribes.
Whole armies of Maori lawyers now make a living out of dragging this process on forever as the hapless taxpayer shells out again and again for supposed grievences.
So you see how important it would be for Maori to hush up and keep concealed anything that did not agree with their version of the past.
Why the NZ government is assisting in this charade is beyond me?

BobbyR · « **Reply #145 on:** August 26, 2009, 10:14:47 AM »

Our Native Americans are now opening Casino's so they are getting their money from the White Man one turn of a card at a time.

Hush · « **Reply #146 on:** August 26, 2009, 02:55:10 PM »

Now there's a good point, only problem is all our Casinos are full of Maori spending the money the white man gives them in welfare payments weekly ha ha.

BobbyR · « **Reply #147 on:** August 26, 2009, 05:55:01 PM »

Quote from: Hush on August 26, 2009, 02:55:10 PM

Now there's a good point, only problem is all our Casinos are full of Maori spending the money the white man gives them in welfare payments weekly ha ha.

Our Native Americans also sell untaxed cigarettes and Gasoline. On the rare occasion I find myself near a Resevation, I stop in to show my solidarity with the Native Americans in their struggle against the White Man.

Industrial Rat400f Killer · « **Reply #148 on:** August 27, 2009, 08:11:35 AM »

Quote from: Hush on August 26, 2009, 02:55:10 PM

Now there's a good point, only problem is all our Casinos are full of Maori spending the money the white man gives them in welfare payments weekly ha ha.

Oh we have that too, they just have a different name.

Hush · « **Reply #149 on:** August 28, 2009, 03:56:08 AM »

And now back to some abandoned buildings with any luck.

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