Topic: The Abandoned Thread

[Industrial Cafe]

I've always liked ghost towns, and I found a list of all the abandoned towns in the U.S. while poking around wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_the_United_States
very cool


     I thought it would be cool if people from the forum rode out to some of them, took some pictures, and posted them here.

also, I've had too much coffee today.

[ofreen]

A good idea for a thread.

Lobo, Tx about 3 weeks ago -

[tramp]

most abandoned towns i saw were not worth taking pictures of
maybe one or two buildings left
but if someone knows of a good spot that would be cool

[ofreen]

I've got a lot of these kinds of pictures since I can identiy with old stuff that is falling apart -

Shafter, TX -

[ofreen]

A town not on the Wiki list.  Encinoso, NM -

[rhos1355]

Any locked barns with hundreds of classic bikes/cars in these towns?

[Industrial Cafe]

most abandoned towns i saw were not worth taking pictures of
maybe one or two buildings left
but if someone knows of a good spot that would be cool

I'd take pics of the buildings anyways.
abandoned things are really cool, It's like time stopped right there in front of you.

there's an abandoned/burned down shop down the road from where I live.
if I had a camera I'd take pics.
  the site used to be a crime scene.
    the story I got was from the late 70's
The husband owned this shop out in the woods behind his 2 nailed together single wides, (still there) he was cheating on his wife with some girl.
His wife found them in the shop doing the deed. So she burned down the shop with them still in it, but they got out.
   Then they got in this white 74 Cadillac (which is still there) and she shot them to death inside.
   The Caddy has 6 bullet holes in it and is all overgrown and stained brown inside.
here's a google maps screenshot.


when i get a new camera I'll take pics, pretty interesting piece of land.

[fishhead]

Ever heard orf Centralia. PA?

   In 1962, someone was burning trash and caught a vein of underground coal on fire. It has been burning since then.

 Here's a link

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/fire-history.htm

 Theres more links on the page with pics of then and now, history,etc.

[Industrial Cafe]

Ever heard orf Centralia. PA?

   In 1962, someone was burning trash and caught a vein of underground coal on fire. It has been burning since then.

 Here's a link

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/fire-history.htm

 Theres more links on the page with pics of then and now, history,etc.

wow, it is just like silent hill!

[Gordon]

Lots of ghost towns in the Big Bend area of Texas.  I took a lot of pictures when I spent a few days there on my bike, but that was back in the era of film.  Lots of decrepit adobe and wood structures and no shortage of old cemeteries.  My favorite was an abandoned farm with a windmill that was still working and pumping up ground water, so it made this very lush oasis in the middle of the desert, with nobody else around. 

[Industrial Cafe]

Lots of ghost towns in the Big Bend area of Texas.  I took a lot of pictures when I spent a few days there on my bike, but that was back in the era of film.  Lots of decrepit adobe and wood structures and no shortage of old cemeteries.  My favorite was an abandoned farm with a windmill that was still working and pumping up ground water, so it made this very lush oasis in the middle of the desert, with nobody else around. 

sounds really neat, I wonder if I could pull that up on google earth!?

[Glenn Stauffer]

Ever heard orf Centralia. PA?

   In 1962, someone was burning trash and caught a vein of underground coal on fire. It has been burning since then.

 Here's a link

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/fire-history.htm

 Theres more links on the page with pics of then and now, history,etc.

I've been to Centralia many times over the years.  It is wierd seeing a place disappear.  When I first went, there were still quite a few residents and a few businesses - I remember a speed shop on the main corner.  Years later, there were just a few houses and a church left and all that remained of what was the business district was a municipal building.  Then the church went; the cemeteries are still there including one Russian Orthodox cemetery with many of the tombstones only in cyrillic script.  Little by little the houses that were still inhabited were abandoned and torn down until only 3 or 4 remain, inhabited by less than a dozen people.  Byrnesville, just outside of Centralia is another abandoned town - nothing much there except a few old buildings and foundations and a Virgin Mary shrine.  The sad part is that as people move out, the houses and commercial buildings are all torn down pretty quickly since the state owns the land now.

[Gordon]

Lots of ghost towns in the Big Bend area of Texas.  I took a lot of pictures when I spent a few days there on my bike, but that was back in the era of film.  Lots of decrepit adobe and wood structures and no shortage of old cemeteries.  My favorite was an abandoned farm with a windmill that was still working and pumping up ground water, so it made this very lush oasis in the middle of the desert, with nobody else around. 

sounds really neat, I wonder if I could pull that up on google earth!?

I'm sure you could if you had a good idea of where it is, but it's an enormous park with many hundreds of miles of dirt roads, and I have no idea where I was at the time. 

[ofreen]

Lots of ghost towns in the Big Bend area of Texas. 

Here's an abandoned fake town on the Rio Grande a ways out of Presidio.  It was a set for 6 or 7 movies.  Made out of OSB, chicken wire, and mud.  It is amazing it hasn't washed away as you can see where the river has run through the buildings leaving a lot of sand behind.

[Hush]

I remember seeing that top shot in a movie, full of Mexican outlaws, can't remember the title thought.
My favorite ghost town ride is done by a biker girl in Chernoble, she regularly rides through the deserted city and says as long as she sticks to the middle of the road her giga counter doesn't go off the scale.
Parks full of abandoned trucks and tanks and helicopters too, all glowing with radiation, laded by their pilots who all died soon after, those guys were real heros.
I'll see if I can remember the link and post it here on an edit.

OK I found it: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

[bucky katt]

wow, quite a few abandoned towns in South Carolina. i see a road trip happening soon

[Industrial Cafe]

hush- Chernoble is the most interesting place to me. thanks for the link.

hey Bucky Katt
I hope to see some pics from your travels!

[Hush]

Amazing eh, wonder if she wants to lead a tour group of old Hondas through there, we'd stop it being a "quiet place"!

[754]

It would be cool to do a SOHC  KampOut in a ghost town, man I could get into that..

 As a long time gas-n-oil collector, I am intrigued by old gas stations.. got some Killer pics of one on 93 just below Jackpot NV.. be cool to camp ther on the way to Bonneville..

 very cool thread BTW..

[ofreen]

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

Yeah, me too.  Walsenburg, CO.

[Industrial Cafe]

Amazing eh, wonder if she wants to lead a tour group of old Hondas through there, we'd stop it being a "quiet place"!

haha! yeah I can hear marla for about a mile!!

[754]

Sinclair says 754

 My younger bro sure got a kick outa that  still openFearless Farris  STINKER GAS station north of Boise last year..

[Raul CB750K1]

I love abandoned places. As somebody have said here, it is like time stood still

[Industrial Cafe]

I think I may change the name and take the word town out.
you can post anything you've found that was abandoned here if you want.

[Gordon]

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?