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| Saturday, November 28th, 2009 | |
| 7:17 am | Eshera military sanatorium .  +65                                                                 via permission of author http://ilya-gorokhov.livejournal.com/531 |
| 5:46 am | Eshera military sanatorium .  +64                                                                 via permission of author . http://ilya-gorokhov.livejournal.com/531 |
| 5:15 am | Abandoned in Italy  My first post, so let me know if I'm doing it wrong. The photo above is linked to a flash gallery on my website that contains about 70 photographs of an abandoned structure here in Italy, just North of Rome. I'm not sure what the building's use was, but it did have a lot of interesting things in it. The gallery starts with 2 abandoned car shots in there, and then 3 of a road flyover from Rome which shouldn't be there, but I hope no-one is too upset as the following 66 are all in the one abandoned location. The (Lightroom) gallery is just that, no adverts or even any links into my website itself, it takes 20 seconds or so to load up the pics but then it's pretty quick. For my next post I'll link the pictures directly in the post, but I don't have time right now, but I thought you might be interested in the pictures as they are. The camera was a Konica Minolta Dynax 5D with a couple of zooms, and the pics were taken a couple of years ago. I went "artistic" on them in Photoshop and Lightroom. Thanks for looking, Paul. |
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| Friday, November 27th, 2009 | |
| 9:58 pm | abandonedplaces @ 2009-11-27T18:36:00 Maos' forgotten underground city. Just another nifty thing I found poking on the internet! |
| 3:22 pm | Abandoned Building in Brazil Hello there, its my first post here. This Building its from 70's and was abandoned about 15, 20 years ago. Sometimes the guys from Fire departament use this abandoned building for training. Sorry about my awful english, im still learning. ohh this building was made for be one Hotel i guess, and anybody here in my town dont know why they no finishing this building.        |
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| 8:15 am | Territory occupied by russian "peacekeepers" and abkhazian separatists in Republic Of Georgia Territory occupied by russian "peacekeepers" and abkhazian separatists in Republic Of Georgia more than 16 years ago . Since than almost no changes .             via http://cyxymu.livejournal.com/610498.htm |
| Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | |
| 10:24 pm | State home for wayward boys, North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii  |
| 8:52 pm | House by the Locks  Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. |
| 3:17 pm | Sycolin Road, 2009 There's ruins of an abandoned house on Sycolin Road that I've been exploring ever since I moved to Leesburg (VA) in 2001. It was built before World War II and apparently used to be a dairy farm. There was a fire at one point, but I don't know if that was before or after the house was abandoned. It's not much to look at, but it was always a novelty to have this little ruin a cat's throw away from my home. Recently, I noticed there's a lot of construction activity on the property, so I thought it would be a good idea to get a few pictures before it all gets developed.         |
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| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | |
| 11:48 pm | Frit Factory  1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The martian landscape... 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Oven... 15. 16. Maybe that was when the oven was made... 17. 18. 19. On hold... 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Not sure who DGK is, but his shitty no talent tag was everywhere... 32. 33. 34. 35. Fancy meeting room... 36. This is on the other side of the meeting room, horrible water damage destroyed the roof and water was pouring in despite it not having rained in a while... 37. Blueprints for some German made equipment... 38. 39. 40. Police Dept. right across the street. Although I think that is vacant... 41. Punch in... 42. Punch out... 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. Warehouse full of tons of product. This company didn't go out of business, they just consolidated all their operations to one facility out of state. So why not sell this product? 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. More product outside... 59. 60. This sign doesn't seem to be getting the point across... http://www.flickr.com/photos/theneighbor |
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| 12:39 am | The Bennett School for Girls The Bennett School For Girls  Built in 1890 as a resort, this building was quickly changed to the "Bennett Finishing School For Young Women" in 1900. Constructed primarily in wood and stone, the structure has an elegant Victorian style. Ornate wood still adorns the corners and peaks, reminding passers by that it once stood with dignity upon it's hilltop.  The Bennett School specialized in the teachings of fine arts and language for young women, most of which were the daughters of industrialists, bank presidents, and other "well-to-do" people of the time. The kind of school that had afternoon tea...   In the 1950's the school expanded from a 2-year, to a 4-year university. These additions and expanded curriculum only delayed the inevitable, and Bennett closed it's doors for good in 1977. A victim of the times perhaps, and thus a victim of itself.  *The following photos were taken during both summer and autumn*                            Once again, video filmed by Christina, edited by me. |
| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | |
| 8:38 pm | Looking for some pointers Hello, I have been following this community for awhile and finally made a LiveJournal account today, I am looking to finding more places to explore. I have found some remains of multiple ghost towns up by Big Bear and Lytle Creek area. Following local legends, mining claims, treasure legends really helps me. If anyone knows of any places in the High Desert (Victor Valley) Area I'd love to hear about them. I enjoy exploring abandoned places for three reasons, one is history. Going to a place where people once were, where memories happened, where there are stories to be told. The second is treasure hunting, I metal detect around the properties I find (with permission, if applicable) digging up history is something I thoroughly enjoy, holding something someone else held 50-100 years ago, wondering how it came to be buried in the ground and why its there is something I like. it could be anything from a cash box with the name Miss Minnie Blessie engraved on it with a can of Prince Alberts Tobacco with pennies and arrowheads in it, old bottles, silverware I love finding all of it. The 3rd and final is research, mapping out what was where, finding the little bits of information, legends, historical figures, compiling stories from people that lived there. All the research to me is just as much fun as the hunt its self. Every place has a story to tell, and I enjoy the hunt. >:) Here are some of my nicer finds over the years:  Starting at the upper left, California Gold Rush era miners gold scale with tin and weights. Found about 6 inches down in the right corner of a foundation of a miners shack in Lytle Creek. Post WWII Belt Mounted Money Changer found in a drive in theater in outer LA county. One of a about 50 something skeleton keys. One of the nicer WWII enbloc clips for an M1 Garand rifle found out in the desert at site of where Camp Young used to be. An FDR Campaign pin made with enamel and brass (one of my favorites) found in the back yard of a house built in 1941. Green Glass bottle found in a out house dump in Big Bear. Coins ranging from 1843 to 1935. Seated Liberty Half Dime (lower left hand corner) the 1849 large cent ( the large copper coin nearest to the green bottle) were found wrapped in wax paper in the foundation of what research says was a bawdy house in Mariposa, CA. These are my favorite most memorable coins, I have a a something like 450 more in albums. All modern money I find I roll and take to the bank. And the 2 disks in the lower right corner are WWI and WWII Uniform Collar insignia.  Miss Minnie Blessies Cash box, dug up in my Aunts back yard. Found by me by accident when I was 8-9.   Rather large and heavy penny collection in a candy, found in 2007 under a tree about 9 inches deep in the back yard of an abandoned house in Orange, CA. Full of wheat pennies of all years over 200 coins in all! |
