| Abandoned Disney - The Lodge |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|01:23 pm] |
The Lodge at the magic kingdom - if it were to be abandoned (which we problem won't see in out lifetime)
textures by:
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I am aware of the problems with posting these in the past, if you have a problem and it does go agents the rules then it shall be deleted.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/2286303328/sizes/l/
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| Abandoned unfinished Asylum |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|02:15 pm] |
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Don`t know if anybody posted photos of this building earlier, but i`ll show ya my photos ;))) (Kiev, Ukraine)
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[Dec. 18th, 2009|09:14 pm] |
My friend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gynocide and I went on a road trip today and passed through Garlock, CA.. a ghost town easily accessible right off Garlock Rd, between the CA-14 (between Mojave and Red Rock Canyon) and CA-395.. the road is well-paved, no potholes (unlike the road to Trona.. yikes) and makes for quite a nice little stop. Our destination was Trona.. tons of pictures from that trip to come.. 90% of Trona is abandoned and very, very eerie. Garlock is an old mining town and minimal in what is actually accessible as far as walking around goes.. just a couple buildings. The rest of the town is fenced off. If you want a real adventure.. go to Trona, lol.. anyway here's a quick photo dump from Garlock.
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| The Examination Room |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|04:55 pm] |
Seen over a period of two years. Dammasch State Hospital.
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| Once again new Trip to the NM ATSF Railroad Repair Shops In Albuquerque |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|05:24 pm] |
A group of Flickr, photographers actually paid rent/insurance for a day to go explore/photograph one of my favorite abandoned places out here in the west. here are some of my photos. Its sometimes used for movies, such as T4, Transformers, Gamer, and a few others. Built in the early 1900's it reached its hayday in the 1940's when it started to decline after the war, at that point it was deemed too costly to retrofit the coal steam engine repair shops for the newer diesel engines, so it got used for storage for a while. and then sat derelict.
One of the only remaining transfer tables like this in the USA.
More under the cut, and even more here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/killbox/tags/asfs121209/
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| Absolutely heartbroken. |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|02:45 pm] |
Eabsinthe.com was my go-to place to purchase absinthe, and in their heyday, they had tons of different options, as I'm sure many of you are aware. Now, they're saying to go to Lafeeabsinthe.com to make purchases. I really like La Fee and all, but I also like to try different things. The last bottle I purchased from eabsinthe.com was a bottle of Clandestine Marianne, which I am quite enjoying.
Anyway, here's my question. Where do you recommend to order online, now? Particularly, I've always wanted to try La Muse Verte and Clandestine Charlotte (and maybe Capriceuse.. probably misspelled that), among others, but I'm not sure which store is the best option now. |
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| The Zoo |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|12:40 am] |
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Allo' Allo' everyone. I'm new to this community and what a beautiful find to have found. :)
I've just got a wee little post pertaining to my own favorite place that used to be bustling when I was a child and is now barren and empty. A zoo in the massive forest near my home in British Columbia, Canada.
The pictures get quite large if you keep clicking them, so go ahead and savor every little detail!
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The Old Polar Bear Enclosure
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| The Conifer's Fall From Grace |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|01:58 am] |
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I though that this location would be a good one to follow the previous entry I made.
It serves to show the contrast between two similar places under different circumstances.
This place, like "The Grandview" is a resort.
Also like "The Grandview", it lays in the Catskill region of NY state.
However, unlike "The Grandview", this place has been posted to numerous "Urban Exploration" websites.
I think everyone knows where this is going...
Please keep in mind that this place was abandoned ten years LATER than "The Grandview"
Now, the entry...
The Conifer (Alias) is a rotting monument to a bygone era.
What was once a gorgeous resort is now a decaying husk...
A victim of neglect, nature, and those that falsely call themselves "Urban Explorers"
Please understand that I have no issue with people investigating locations such as these, I do it myself.
However, there's a guideline that needs to be followed:
"Take only pictures, leave only footsteps"
Sadly, this seems beyond most people's comprehension, and The Conifer has suffered dearly for it.
This post serves not only a portrayal of a forgotten place, but also an essay on disrespect.
Walking the grounds, you can grasp what the place must have been like in it's heyday.
The bustle of people checking in and out in the lobby,.
The smell of chlorine floating down the main hall from the indoor pool.
Faintly music playing in the background, coming from the grand dining hall.
Now just silence, and the smell of decay.
The lobby lies in ruin.
Holes cover the walls, and in some cases, sections of wall are missing altogether.
The furniture is thrown in all directions, most no longer upright.
A majority of the windows have been smashed, allowing for a rather surreal situation,
wherein grass has rooted over the entirety of the lobby carpet.
Creating a grassy field where once the lobby floor was.
Moving on to the building containing indoor pool,
you still almost expect the echo of splashing as you walk about the room.
It's obvious from the size of it that the pool was once a very popular spot at the resort.
It now sits drained, a giant tiled pit in the center of the room.
Fountains can still be seen around the edging of the pool,
along with the many many pool chairs that now occupy the deep-end...
The theater hall must have been glorious at one time.
The room is massive, with the capacity to fit a very large audience.
The giant curtains still hang, slowly being eaten away by fungus.
Same can be said of the ceiling, which appears to be on the verge of collapse.
Walking the hallways of the wings that contained the bedrooms,
you start to understand just how many people came here.
Like the resort itself, the rooms are for the most-part in ruin.
Windows are broken out, walls are all but torn down, spray paint and garbage is everywhere.
As you go up a few floors though, things become less devastated.
At one point the rooms even smelt eerily of clean linen.
Somehow sealed away over a decade ago...
( What's One More Hole In The Wall? ... ) |
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| VENDETTA (New Year's Eve, Los Angeles) |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|11:50 am] |
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| Detroit Artists Use City's Blight as Their Canvas |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|08:53 am] |
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| | in my mac | ] |
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Not sure if this is a valid post here, please let me know if it is not, but I thought this might be of some interest, since it pertains to an abandoned neighborhood in detroit, and how artists are using that to transform it into art.
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| Coal Towns |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:16 pm] |
I have been a lurker for a while now, so this is my first time posting. These pictures were taken about two years ago in the mountains of Virginia at an abandoned coal mine. My best friend grew up there and knew all the cool places, though most of them are closed to the public for safety reasons. These were taken from where we were able to go.
The abandoned shower house where the miners would go to get cleaned up after being underground and digging.
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| Abandoned Disney Park |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|05:59 pm] |
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I haven't seen this posted here yet, but it is certainly of interest. When I visited Disney World for the first time this summer, I had no idea that, somewhere nearby in the midst of all the bright shininess, was an abandoned park.
From the site: "River Country was Walt Disney World’s first waterpark. It opened in 1976, and closed for the final time in 2001. Since 2001, the area has sat virtually undisturbed. The slides and pools remain in place."
http://disboards.com.nyud.net:8080/showthread.php?t=2344523 |
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| Gunkanjima - Battleship Island |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:56 pm] |
When I first learnt about this island a few years back, I was determined to check out the place since then. Although it was a guided tour with access restricted to only a small part of the island (hence the limited views), the fact that I could set foot on it was good enough for me. :)
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The rest of the series here. |
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| h2o |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|02:55 pm] |
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| Packing plant demolition |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|02:51 am] |
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x-posted to personal journal and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) creepgirlfrenzy
Since 1919, the KD Station has been a shining icon in the cattle processing town of Siouxicide City, Iowa. In 1949 an explosion inside the meat packing plant killed several people and thus the haunting stories began. When the plant shut down and the building later reopened with shops and restaurants, the stories got worse. Most of it stemmed from the place itself, not the spirits floating around the place.
Consider a dank building with only a handful of windows on the top floors and a labyrinth of cold, dirty corridors buzzing and scarcely lit with industrial lamps. The elevators were so decrepit they were always threatening to commit suicide and take the passengers with. The full suits of armor peering at you from a caged hallway never put one at ease, either. I never saw any of the rumored ghosts, though a couple people have told me about seeing White Tuxedo Man outside the costume shop. However, I nearly had a coronary when I rounded a corner and came face to face with my reflection in the enormous mirror I wasn't even aware of.
Over the years the building has hosted restaurants, night clubs, music shops, a beauty salon, a butcher, clothing stores, an archery shop, an arcade, and a dinosaur exhibit. In 2004 the building was condemned when a generator in the bowling alley burst into flames. Just before this, some friends and I got a chance to go on the closed off floors with a video camera. If the areas open to the public were considered dirty, the restricted was absolutely filthy. The beams on the third floor had completely caved in certain rooms and the minigolf course was riddled with mold. An army of dusty clowns had been stockpiled in a janitor's closet, though no one ever bothered to move the 6-foot grinding wheels even on the public floors. Most of the meathooks had been cleared out. Most of them. Sadly I have no way to upload clips from the video to the internet so as to illustrate the inside of the building. In 2006 little bastard children set another fire and the city made the decision to demolish it. It's finally happening.
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| Pictures taken on Lenin's birthday four years ago in Penza region, Russia |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|09:28 am] |
Yes, these are the abandoned monuments to Lenin and the ruins of some churches and noble estates, which were abandoned because of the destrucitive activities of Lenin and his followers. In the background of the first monument you can see the ruin of the Intercession church (1905) in the village Ust'-Karemsha.
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| Dread (2009) |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|04:20 pm] |
Based on Clive Barkers second story in books of blood.
Barker's adaptations either are really good *hell raiser* or not so good *meat locker train". Dread is in the really good category. One of those movies that grab you because of the plausibility of the plot and the most scariest of things, ourselves.
It also has some pretty good gore scenes in it;
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1331307/ |
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| First Post |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|02:49 pm] |
Hello abandoned places fans!
I have been following this community for a while now and I am amazed by the awsome photographs one can find here!
This is my first post and I am sharing photos of an abandoned LORAN Station - located the Santa Maria island, Azores, Portugal. It was a Longe-Range Navigation Station operated by NATO, deactivated and in ruins since 1980.
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