Notes to the Wall

This is part two of gynocide and I's roadtrip to Trona.. part one I posted yesterday, of our brief stop in Garlock, CA. Once we got into Trona we decided to stop at the Pinnacles for sight-seeing but the 8 mile unpaved dirt road didn't seem like much fun to me.. even with 4x4. We still got some nice views of the Pinnacles though.



Anywho.. one of the first abandoned buildings that can be seen while driving through Trona is an abandoned gas station.. not a very welcoming sight.



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Twelve recent photos of Centralia, PA can be found here, along with a few paragraphs about what happened to the town.

Final piece for The Examination Room series. Dammasch State Hospital.

The Lodge at the magic kingdom - if it were to be abandoned (which we problem won't see in out lifetime) textures by: before 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/ ( see after )

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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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Seen over a period of two years. Dammasch State Hospital.

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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I found this:




Turning it over, I found this:




Both brought a smile to my face.

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...





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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.

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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Hello.

I wanted to invite those of you with an interest in cooking and yes, eating to vintage_chefs. I thought it would be interesting to create a community for those of us whose love of all things vintage and traditional spilled over into our love for food. A community to replicate heirloom recipes and show off our antique kitchen appliances,vintage cookbooks, recipes and dishes.



Victorian 'Absinthe' Sandwhich Cake baked by Me

xoxo

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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^^.

I picked up a used copy of Saturation by Urge Overkill at a record store in Harvard Square, and when I took it home it turned out an old ticket stub from one of their shows was still in the case:



I always like finding things in used books or cd's no matter what they are, and I just thought it was kind of neat that whoever previously owned this album evidently also saw them live when I was 12. It didn't travel far though, The Paradise is fairly close to where I bought the CD. And man, I very rarely see concerts that cost $7 to get into these days.