Author Topic: The Abandoned Thread (Read 136604 times)

scottly · « **Reply #650 on:** December 09, 2014, 06:46:29 PM »

Quote from: ofreen on December 08, 2014, 06:48:39 PM

Scott, how about doing an entry in the Interesting Roads and Destinations thread on Jerome and 89A? Unless you want to keep it a secret.

Shoot, the secret has been out for years!

The pic was taken from a point that had to be hiked several miles into, like Fossil Creek, which has unfortunately become too well known.

ofreen · « **Reply #651 on:** December 09, 2014, 08:57:51 PM »

Yeah, we've got friends in Prescott Valley. Gets more built up every time I get down there.

faux fiddy · « **Reply #652 on:** December 10, 2014, 11:06:41 AM »

I like the road you take west of Flagstaff on the Ash Fork (?) exit.

Talk about the views, and it's got the twisties like crazy.

754 · « **Reply #653 on:** August 05, 2015, 03:40:03 PM »

Saw this today will fill in more info later..
I think it's been like this around eighty years... Houses and a restaurant all around it....wierd.
Built in 1912, closed for the war in 1914....... Never to reopen..
The concrete was wheeled up on ramps, but they used no rebar.. So it was deemed unsafe...meanwhile it still stands..
Search Kaleden Hotel..

ofreen · « **Reply #654 on:** August 05, 2015, 04:28:51 PM »

That's cool, Frank. I've been thinking about jump-starting this thread myself.

seanbarney41 · « **Reply #655 on:** August 05, 2015, 07:40:29 PM »

yeah I found a really spooky lookin' abandoned farm...gotta get back out there and scope it out better

also, anybody ever hear about North Fox Island and what happened there back in the '70's?...try and check it out on google earth

Magpie · « **Reply #656 on:** August 05, 2015, 07:46:05 PM »

Abandoned in a driveway in Squamish with a note on the windshield saying "Please call me!"

BobbyR · « **Reply #657 on:** August 06, 2015, 12:20:16 PM »

Quote from: seanbarney41 on August 05, 2015, 07:40:29 PM

yeah I found a really spooky lookin' abandoned farm...gotta get back out there and scope it out better

also, anybody ever hear about North Fox Island and what happened there back in the '70's?...try and check it out on google earth

A wealthy guy bought the north island and used the airstrip to fly young boys to the island for a "camp" it was a kiddie porn ring. He escaped in his plane was was found in Arizona. They think he hid out in Mexico.

seanbarney41 · « **Reply #658 on:** August 06, 2015, 01:08:46 PM »

Quote from: BobbyR on August 06, 2015, 12:20:16 PM

Quote from: seanbarney41 on August 05, 2015, 07:40:29 PM
yeah I found a really spooky lookin' abandoned farm...gotta get back out there and scope it out better

also, anybody ever hear about North Fox Island and what happened there back in the '70's?...try and check it out on google earth

A wealthy guy bought the north island and used the airstrip to fly young boys to the island for a "camp" it was a kiddie porn ring. He escaped in his plane was was found in Arizona. They think he hid out in Mexico.

yep, basically what I have been told...plus that the "camp" doubled as a resort who's clientel was rich and famous and power brokers. The creepy part is that North Fox Island is now owned by State of Michigan and there is no laws or rules against going there...but the only way to get there is by small landing craft as the island is surrounded for miles by shallow waters. The resort/camp had made a landing strip which can still be seen on Google Earth, but any view of the resort buildings has been electronically distorted. Apparently any human that has been there since the case was closed, has not reported anything...a large Island in Lake Michigan with extremely little or no human contact...

754 · « **Reply #659 on:** September 08, 2015, 10:00:05 PM »

Northern Washington. State..today
..nice house..

754 · « **Reply #660 on:** September 08, 2015, 10:01:39 PM »

Same farm

70CB750 · « **Reply #661 on:** September 09, 2015, 03:56:37 AM »

Frank is on the road

Nice pictures.

ofreen · « **Reply #662 on:** September 09, 2015, 07:15:08 AM »

Quote from: 754 on September 08, 2015, 10:01:39 PM

Same farm

Excellent. My kind of place.

754 · « **Reply #663 on:** September 09, 2015, 08:10:42 AM »

I am back now.. Could have taken at least 20 pics or more of the no paint buildings.
The house looked pretty good, guess it was just the paint.
Greg check out Molson Washington.. There's some very nice buildings, few people still live there.. About a mile from Canada border.
Spent at least half hour, at this old garage. Probably. Going back to buy a Schwinn..

faux fiddy · « **Reply #664 on:** September 09, 2015, 11:22:36 AM »

Quote from: 754 on September 09, 2015, 08:10:42 AM

I am back now.. Could have taken at least 20 pics or more of the no paint buildings.
The house looked pretty good, guess it was just the paint.
Greg check out Molson Washington.. There's some very nice buildings, few people still live there.. About a mile from Canada border.
Spent at least half hour, at this old garage. Probably. Going back to buy a Schwinn..

I always thought I'd like to find a place like that for next to nothing and move in. It's tough being out in the middle of nowhere, but not as bad as before digital entertainment.

BobbyR · « **Reply #665 on:** September 09, 2015, 03:40:55 PM »

Great Pics

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #666 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:16:44 AM »

Cool pics Frank...

754 · « **Reply #667 on:** September 10, 2015, 08:02:02 AM »

If you liked the trucks.... The guy had some Honda 305 scrambles and parts, not for sale. I did not see them, but he had a 71 Trumph Bonneville there with original paint..
Black truck was a runner, needed the front fenders put back on.

70CB750 · « **Reply #668 on:** September 10, 2015, 08:04:49 AM »

Abandoned in Virginia:

https://www.facebook.com/AbandonedinVirginia/photos_stream

754 · « **Reply #669 on:** September 12, 2015, 08:40:31 PM »

There is a bike shop in the back of this place, I know the guy..
We bought a tool and cutter grinder, and milling machine and other goodies out of there a few years back..
Lots of bikes on the inland ferry getting there..

Rick Hatfield · « **Reply #670 on:** September 13, 2015, 12:11:57 PM »

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754 · « **Reply #671 on:** September 13, 2015, 12:28:13 PM »

That Columbia Machine building get a good mention...In one of Stuart MacLeans books.
Stuart does the Vinyl cafe series on CBC.

faux fiddy · « **Reply #672 on:** September 13, 2015, 08:58:55 PM »

Quote from: Rick Hatfield on September 13, 2015, 12:11:57 PM

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Yep, you got the posting thing down. Welcome to the forum.

Where are you ferrying to and from?

I only rode on the car on deck ferries a couple times. I practically lived on the Columbia and the Tustamena for a whole winter.

754 · « **Reply #673 on:** September 13, 2015, 09:11:53 PM »

It's on the Columbia River, a dammed section called Arrow Lake.. One ride is about 25 minutes, the other is shorter.
One ferry north, and one south of Nakusp BC......the North one took us up to Revelstoke..which is on Hwy 1. The TransCanada Hwy.

754 · « **Reply #674 on:** September 15, 2015, 09:49:39 AM »

Another from near the border,not sure if trains run anymore, looks sorta abandoned.

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