Don`t know if anybody posted photos of this building earlier, but i`ll show ya my photos ;))) (Kiev, Ukraine) ( Enter... )

My friend 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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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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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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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? ...  )

Review: Ghost Hunters 5.25: "Hindenburg Crash Site"

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.

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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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

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.

Two things!

1. L.A. utility shelves plans for solar farm near Salton Sea. I didn't even know they had planned for this, but it's interesting.

2. Culver City housing update and an update on her ..

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PS: I'm going to make a real post soon about Japan, so please look forward to it^^.

x-posted to personal journal and 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.



( This is Iowa )

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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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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I'm not sure if anyone is any good at going through old posts, but summer/sprinf of 2008 I posted pictures of Thornwald Mansion? It was a pretty popular post. I'm hoping someone could find it for me.

I wasn't able to take pictures past the fence, and didn't want to "break in". I contacted the city and they've gotten me in touch with the owner. I am hoping to show her the post I did here, and the positive feedback I got here from the community so that maybe she would let me take some more pictures, this time inside the fence, possibly in the Mansion? Thanks in advance if anyone can help!

does anyone know what's going on with avenged mb? :(

It's been raining here for days. I can't remember the last time it rained here. Was it last year? It's strange seeing the wet ground, the feeling of the sudden muggy air, and hearing the squishy sound of the soaked shoes hitting the moist, broken pavement. I like it. My friends liked it, too. The change in the air is so apparent, it seems.

Today I lost my keys. I had to wait for about an hour and a half for mom to come home. She's awesome and I love her. I'm such a forgetful and careless person. As I wait, I catch myself staring at the window from the apartment building, watching the droplets of water falling from the sky, creating ripples on the ground. And I trace the droplets from the window.

Age Sixteen (enfin !)

About me
I started writing when I was five. *giggle* It was Wizard of Oz fanfic. Since then, I've been through what might charitably be called "phases", but taking the long and the short I'm a temperamental, mildly depressive student who is unfortunately taking biology with honours, mathematics, chemistry, and (only one humanities subject out of four majors!) English literature. I speak English well, French passably, and Chinese badly. I have never done NaNo before, to my eternal shame.

About my journal
It is new, started half an hour before my last exam, a month or so ago. I am a LiveJournal noob. Everything's f-locked, because LiveJournal is my refuge from my everyday friends who know my WordPress confessions. I don't have a lot of writing up, although I take part in brigits_flame. I rarely review, but I have some posts about my life, mainly philosophical; also, more frequently, discussion of the news/current affairs, which may lead to ranting when my liberal outrage is provoked.

What I write
Short stories - novellas, at a stretch. I am very perfectionistic (it borders on OCD), and quite impatient, so I can't stand anything longer. I prefer speculative fiction, seeing as how I started out writing superheroes, though I do write realist situations at times. I'm not very good at poetry, nor am I much interested in it: I'm a proseist at heart. I do dabble in humour, but my sense for it is nae so developed, nae so sharp.

What I don't write
I don't do much fanfiction; I mostly consume it. I can't write romance, and my only attempt at porn turned out a miserable failure. I don't do novels, either.

What I read
I like most things, especially with scintillating prose. I'll pick up about 75% of the fiction contents of a well-stocked bookshop. I like well-researched historical fiction, and I'll read just about anything interesting on linguistics (David Crystal and Melvin Bragg, for a taste). I love Tolkien, Atwood, Gaiman, Pratchett, Chesterton. Agatha Christie holds fond memories for me. Sometimes I delve into trash fiction (read: Nora Roberts, Dan Brown), for the lulz, but I don't like it per se; it just makes me giggle.

What I don't read
Stephenie Meyer, Christopher Paolini - my primary bugbears! As a rule I do avoid romance fiction. (Or deliberately blasphemous smut, like Anne Rice.) I also don't touch horror or hardcore SF, which might scandalise fans of Stephen King/Arthur C. Clarke/Philip K. Dick/Orson Scott Card. I also try to stay away from depressing stuff like A Song of Ice and Fire. Yes, I know that these works are good; I just haven't the stomach to slog on with them, when they make my skin crawl or head hurt (depending on the author). I have a love-hate relationship with fantasy and YA fiction, because bad examples of each abound muchly.

Could I edit someone else's work?
I'm conflict-averse, so I feel bad about delivering bad reviews, but if you're the sort who doesn't take it amiss, then that's excellent. I tend to nitpick based on grammar and style (which includes your publishing layout: I refuse to read, for example, something typed in flashing, sparkling, multi-coloured letters on a lurid turquoise background). But I think I could probably critique a story proper if you asked me to (lit student, whee). I'm not good with poetry, though - just a warning.

What am I looking for?
Like minds, really. Even if you don't write much, but think we have much in common, I'd be glad to friend you. (Although commenting from time to time would be nice; but I love reading my friends list anyway.) I'm not averse to collaborative works with someone of a similar style, either.

Where can you find me?
Over at my journal, or else at my best friend azuire's teahouse sushiandchai for Brigit's Flame entries. (The former is friends-locked. The latter is a friends-locked journal, but Flame prompt-responses are open for the month of their participation.)

Delighted to make your acquaintance :) I hope to get to know you better, whoever is reading this and is interested!