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Abandoned Places' InsaneJournal:
| Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | |
| 9:43 am | Abandoned Places - The Lyric Theater Abandoned and empty for over 25 years, the Lyric (built in 1908 as a Vaudeville House) and it's adjacent office building are now in a state of arrested decay. The theater was purchased for preservation by a non-profit which owns the nearby and restored Alabama Theater. This summer, two assistants and I recieved permission to extensively photograph both theaters and the office tower adjacent to the Lyric. Using studio lights to illuminate the gloom, these are some samples.    Yes, the curtain does say "Asbestos"  This is color enhanced detail of the art above the stage   Many more photos will follow soon. |
| 8:10 am | Secret Bowling Alley in Queens, N.Y. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-carr/t From the Huffington Post: "I received a very unexpected email last week: "'We recently purchased a building in Queens, and while clearing out the basement we discovered a two lane manual bowling alley in very good condition. We did some research and this basement was most probably a club during the Prohibition era. Would you or someone you know be interested [in the space]?' "A hidden Prohibition-era bowling alley? Yes, definitely interested. I took a trip to see it today - Just incredible:"  |
| Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 | |
| 11:25 pm | Black Friday  Went back up to Coal Country on Black Friday. Revisited all 3 of these spots that I had been to last summer. I didn't really think about how people would be around since it was a Friday. We had to dodge dump trucks carrying coal from newer facilities across the old unused sections of the strip mine where the Dragline was. That was fun. ---Marion 7400 Dragline: Strip-mining machine--- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. ---Coal Breaker: Crushed coal boulders into smaller specific sizes--- 10. 11. 12. 13. No grates... 14. Some grates... 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. They had several layers of these pieces of metal with holes in them. Coal would fall down into them according to size to help sort the coal... 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. I was highly confused by this. Then I found papers downstairs that basically label different sizes of coal with wacky names like that... 25. 26. 27. Someone stole part of the calender or something. There used to be more pages... 28. 29. 30. Looks like an old radiator from a 1930s car... 31. 32. Some asshole knocked all the boots on the ground. I picked them all back up except they aren't matched up in pairs... 33. 34. 35. 36. ---Centralia, Pa: "Town" with an underground mine fire--- 37. There are more dead than living in Centralia... 38. Walking the barren landscape... 39. 40. Windmills on the hills... 41. It was about 40*F out. In the summer when it was hot less smoke would show. A decent amount of smoke is showing now. I imagine if you can out when it was like 20*F it would be really smokey... 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. Smoke was coming out of the sewer... 47. Highway 61 Revisited... http://www.flickr.com/photos/theneighbor |
| Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 | |
| 7:56 pm | Quincy & Torch Lake Railroad yard plus 1 There was a copper mining industry Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula from 1846 to well into the past century The Quincy & Torch Lake served the Quincy Mining Company. The Quincy Mining Company was founded in 1846 to mine native copper deposits on property near Hancock, Michigan. During the course of the next one hundred and fifty years, the company produced 1.5 billion pounds of refined copper and issued $30 million in shareholder dividends. In 1976, I shot the following photos at the yard of the Q & TL. Only three structures remained. The engine house and a rectangular water tank. I understand there are restorations ongoing of mining era facilities and trains. One of the Q & TL engines was running at the museum at Greenfield Village.      |
| 2:55 am | Beautiful banisters of the ruined house in the city of Kashira, Moscow region, Russia  I always stop to gaze at these amazing banisters on my way from the Assumption cathedral to the open swimming pool. These banisters is the only part of the house on a high bank of the Oka river which has survived. It's the perfect setting for taking "atmospheric" pictures. The pictures were taken in mid-November and early October this year.  |
| Monday, November 30th, 2009 | |
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| Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | |
| 11:34 pm | |
| 4:51 pm | Half Dugout, Eastern New Mexico  This is a half dugout, so while the room is below ground, it has a traditional above-ground pitched roof, with the eaves about three feet from the ground. It was built in the early 1920s, and was inhabited until the late 1950s. The people that lived here raised a family of six children in the one 10'x15' room with no running water or electricity. My grandfather was friends with the family, and was a frequent visitor in the house.  Entrance gate, with the roof of the dugout visible in the background. According to my father and grandfather, there were vegetable gardens, trees, and flowering shrubs surrounding the house.    The rope tied to the door goes down the steps so that the door can be closed more conveniently from inside the house.    At some point after the house ceased to function as a primary residence, shelving was added so that the house could be used as a root cellar of sorts.  Crate full of old china with patterns dating from the 30's and 40's.  The bottoms of the windows are very nearly even with the ground outside.  There are numerous outbuildings, including a small barn, a lambing shed with a rock wall, and a rock structure that has collapsed completely.    |
| 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.        |
