Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here (pic thread)

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I'm very interested in things that are abandoned, neglected, disused, dilapidated, structurally unsound, either long-forgotten or considered an eyesore and a blight.

http://www.lostdestinations.com/lambert/lam015.jpg

What's your relationship to the culture of abandonment? Post pics, share anecdotes, offer psychoanalysis if you must.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

While doing research for our Saskatchewan EP, I came across this, which all makes me unbearably sad:

http://www.interlog.com/~grlaird/uraniumcity.html

Much sadden than the quaint Nevada ghost towns that littered (in evenly spaced intervals to make the drive less taxing) the drive from Reno to Las Vegas. I found a website with pictures of the best of those towns, Goldfield; maybe I'll scrounge up that link again. But Uranium City is so isolated, it makes everything that much sadder.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Center For Land Use Interpretation to thread!

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Uranium City

"In front of me is a long main hall: classrooms and offices branch off each side. It looks like it was once a fair-sized school, maybe 500 or 600 kids tops. The darkness is cut by light from exterior windows, all broken. Twenty years after the fact, there’s still the remains of textbooks and lessons scattered about. A pile of absentee slips lies next to what looks like what used to be the principal’s office. November 4, 1980: someone named Pouchain missed one period of biology; someone else missed a class of English. The excuses pile up, still written down and then forgotten.

Upstairs, amid bricks and ceiling tiles, a catalogue of the last few months of the school unfolds. Outside, it’s snowing: but inside, I’m reading tatters of someone’s social studies lesson from 1981."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

:-( If it weren't so out of the way, I say ILX should buy it up and found the world's most fractious commune.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.darkpassage.com/gate.htm

― Honda (Honda), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, also if Uranium City weren't so horribly irradiated.

But still I really want to go Uranium City. Or perhaps better yet, to the town that apparently used to be Uranium City's suburb, Eldorado.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, also if Uranium City weren't so horribly irradiated.

Minor details!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe we'd get SUPERPOWERS!

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Like we don't already have them. I'm talking to people ACROSS THE WORLD!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

A pic from what was apparently once a recreation complex called Pleasureland:

http://www.lostdestinations.com/pleasure/pleas26.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

When my Latin teacher was out for three days years ago, she came back and the students had painted that (in Latin) on a huge banner above the door.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

When I worked doing house clearances in Liverpool (which I may have mentioned elsewhere is the worst and most heartbreaking job in the world - consisted mostly of shovelling up kids shoes, used nappies and used hypos, on the first day I was glad it was raining so my rough tough coworkers couldn't see me crying) there were entire abandoned districts, streets where every window was covered in spot-welded sheets, even the graffiti was eroded by weather. It was strange, disquieting and ridiculous. It's largely why i get angry when I hear building companies talk of an urgent need for affordable housing.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The Essex County Jail page on that Dark Passage site is amazing.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

more reckless abandon in new jersey

[note graffiti]
http://www.midnightsociety.com/web/Abandoned/Sexplant/sexplant2.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone clearly should name a club "The Sex Plant" ASAP.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

New Jersey is the finest state in all the Union.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I do imagine that as being the place Bon Jovi first rehearsed, it seems appropriate.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.imgmag.org/images/gillanders/tex.JPG

this is inside a textile factory in brno, in the czech republic.

not so dingy=not so depressing. but it was all ripped out and shit.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

B-but surely Johnny used to work on the docks?

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

That was a LIE. LIKE ALL THEIR OTHER SCUMSUCKING CRAP! *continues to build up the caricature for the hell of it*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The Essex County Jail page on that Dark Passage site is amazing.

I mean MY GOD.

http://www.darkpassage.com/postmortems/ecj_home.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

a jug and a bucket and a dirty shirt. in a JAIL.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

shit i thought that was a picture of my lounge room

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I went and wondered around inside a big huge old building on my college campus, one of my last days there. It was being renovated, but none of the workers were around, and nobody saw me go in. I found all sorts of old stuff that made no sense (artifacts on the fourth floor in a corner office indicated people had been using it to sleep and study in) and tons upon tons of abandoned furniture, empty desks, old notebooks, all variety of things. I love palimpsest. The whole experience was fitting for the end of my college career, as if after three years of disappointment and disgust I finally met the one piece of architecture on campus that I could spend hours upon hours in without any malaise, when it was already too late for either of us. The empty halls made the best sounds. I walked around in the lower floors (there was a gym, an empty swimming pool, locker rooms, and an auditorium inside) with a section of pipe I found lying on the ground, hitting railings and things to listen to the reverb.

Another wonderful thing about abandoned buildings is the freedom of movement - you can go anywhere and everywhere you like, nobody bumps into you or gives you odd looks or asks questions. I love that feeling. It never happens anywhere else, except perhaps outdoors, and that's just not the same.

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Jody, do you read Weird NJ?

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The Paulinskill Viaduct (NJ):

http://www.weirdnj.com/images_stories/abandoned_viaduct_02.jpg http://www.weirdnj.com/images_stories/abandoned_viaduct_03.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

A really fascinating and somewhat relevant site: http://www.infiltration.org/

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

KIM THAT SITE IS AWESOME

I went out and bought a waterproof flashlight after I read through the first time

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

New Jersey is the finest state in all the Union.
-- Jody Beth Rosen (edito...), April 11th, 2003 9:54 AM. (later) (Jody Beth Rosen)

Them's fightin' words. . .

(i love this thread btw)

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR you should visit Detroit. It's an entire major American city which is abandoned, neglected, disused, dilapidated, structurally unsound, and considered an eyesore and a blight.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never been to Detroit, but I've seen pics.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://detroityes.com/industry/20fisher_inside.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Then there's the Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, IL -- abandoned in 1978.

http://students.millikin.edu/~eraffenetti/mall/5-13/IMGA0003.JPG
http://students.millikin.edu/~eraffenetti/mall/5-13/IMGA0001.JPG

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard a segment on This American Life once about a man who became obsessed with an abandoned house as a kid. As an adult he spent a lot of time tracking down the descendants of the family who had lived there and figuring out what happened to them. He had even kept a shoebox of items from the house that he turned over to a granddaughter.

It was fascinating.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

(I've seen that Infiltration zine, btw -- it's excellent.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That Infiltration link has made my night

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.infiltration.org/images/malt-getoff.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

disused and abandoned subway stations

http://www.nycsubway.org/img/i7000/img_7574.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The Whitepot Underjump, part of the discontinued Long Island Railroad Rockaway Line. (I just love the phrase "Whitepot Underjump.")

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Rockaway%20Line/whitepot.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

There used to be a great site called "Modern Ruins"; lots of pictures related to this topic...

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

After Detroit, I suggest Baltimore.

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

On the train into Liverpool there's loads of really old graffiti painted on bridges and cutting, celebrating football triumphs that are twenty years in the past. It's kinda poignant.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Recently The Asbury Park Press published an article stating that Palace Amusements, the 110-year-old landmark, was in imminent danger of collapsing and would be demolished shortly. The article stated that the Palace, which closed its doors to the public for the last time back in November 1988, exhibited significant stress fractures in the exterior walls. In addition, a portion of the second story had recently caved in ... the entire block and bordering streets around the condemned structure were cordoned off with yellow police tape and orange plastic barrels. The paint of the building's once brightly colored exterior was chipped and flaking off. The multi-colored neon lights, which once framed the ever smiling faces of Tilly, hung broken and swaying in the freezing winter wind."

http://www.weirdnj.com/images_stories/abandoned_palace.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Tillie at night, circa 1980:

http://www.asburyboardwalk.com/pic/tillieatnight.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ruin-japan.com/

― ron (ron), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

wow

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

there's really cool shit on there, plus i think i like it even better because i cant read it - really can't be bothered with pesky "words" ;-)

for some reason i really liked this one, although it's not all that "ruinous"

http://home.earthlink.net/~rjameshudson/japanruin09.jpg

― ron (ron), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a really great thread. That Infiltration zine is actually done by an old pal of mine.

Now I'm going to see if I can dig up any relevant photos I've taken and post away.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 April 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 101 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/imag21.2.jpg

Oh this is rich... a girl who rides her motorbike through the Dead Zone of Ukraine, with crazy high radiation... lots of great creepy photos:

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

― andy ---, Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

those were proven to be fake.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

can it be there is no mention of the holy land?

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/holy

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 16 February 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/315930564_42fab2b5f4.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/270413620_c69fb98d75.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/116/310499331_5335febc51.jpg?v=0

The Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke, SE London. Still the most terrifying place I have ever been at midnight on the night of an England match.

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/450076039_ce1d021692.jpg?v=0

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing says 'run away' like an enormous Millwall mural.

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

nice1

― max r, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

a guy at my work is into this. here are just a few of the pictures he has.
http://image61.webshots.com/161/1/3/10/2959103100067319052cxQbGL_ph.jpg
http://image59.webshots.com/459/8/29/67/2682829670067319052CyjIhb_ph.jpg
http://image57.webshots.com/657/8/34/14/2814834140067319052cqQkMP_ph.jpg

― carne asada, Friday, 5 October 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

again
http://image57.webshots.com/657/8/34/14/2814834140067319052cqQkMP_ph.jpg

― carne asada, Friday, 5 October 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://image63.webshots.com/463/8/19/37/2716819370067319052uEcmbV_ph.jpg

― carne asada, Friday, 5 October 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

It's fun to hike up to the Overlook Mountain House if you're ever in/near Woodstock:

http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/overlook/overlook.html

― Hurting 2, Friday, 5 October 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

this film is screening this weekend in NYC
http://urbanexplorersfilm.com/about_urban_explorers.htm

― carne asada, Friday, 5 October 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

tickets here
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/21441?prod_id=5921

― carne asada, Friday, 5 October 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2007/11/it-will-rise-from-ashes.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetjuniper/sets/72157603302647339/

― get bent, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:01 (seventeen years ago)

Found a huge area near me the other week...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2153/1587316373_e0dd095928.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2117/1587317505_4a2eb97652.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2245/1588209222_be4554f05a.jpg

Was pretty creepy actually.

― S-, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:24 (seventeen years ago)

Where is that?

― Tracksuit Party, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 10:58 (seventeen years ago)

Wow @ those links, Jody. That's so depressing to read & see.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 11:15 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetjuniper/2066074227/in/set-72157603302647339/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetjuniper/2066074099/in/set-72157603302647339/

Detroit Public Schools Repository

― water, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 14:34 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunhappyhippy/1541116413/sizes/l/

Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, UK

― water, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 14:36 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62705671@N00/2232306740/sizes/l/

Cleveland, Ohio

― water, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)

Oops the book repository already been linked!

― water, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://thumb12.webshots.net/t/24/665/6/86/96/2737686960067319052TbeSMy_th.jpg

― carne asada, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sqwasher/2243342888/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sqwasher/2243321544/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sqwasher/2242536891/sizes/l/

high royds mental hospital, menston, west yorkshire

― water, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 15:08 (seventeen years ago)

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee39/samgezee/chairs.jpg

― carne asada, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:04 (seventeen years ago)

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee39/samgezee/pool.jpg

― carne asada, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

It's so BIZARRE that the woodwork is in such good shape compared to everything else...makes it feel almost warm and liveable if you stop looking at the drained pool for a sec.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:15 (seventeen years ago)

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee39/samgezee/morefloor.jpg

abandon Hotel resort. This is the place that was the inspiration for the movie “dirty dancing”. Although it wasn’t filmed here this is the type of place the movie was modeled after.

from my bro who took the pictures

― carne asada, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee39/samgezee/soadashop.jpg

― carne asada, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

Never seen this thread before. Is great. I was going to take a pic yesterday of the wall of a London tube station (dammit, can't remember which one but could always retrace my route to find it...it would be worth it). The tiles had all been ripped off leaving some pretty special cement patterns.

I have a thing for taking photos of places where posters should be (billboards? posterboards?) that are posterless before except for the little scraps from all the posters that were there before. There's lots of this going on at Chiswick tube station. Will dig out pics.

― Zoe Espera, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.agilitynut.com/p/bedfstor1.jpg
this from upthread is crazy creepy

great thread kiu

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

There's lots of this going on at Chiswick tube station.

South Acton would be good for pics for this thread

― water, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)

deez, is that from enchanted forest?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:40 (seventeen years ago)

No, nevermin. It's not.

http://icons-pe.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/z/Zeos/31.jpg

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.agilitynut.com/fairyparks/pa.html

Storyland. at Schellsburg, PA it seems

― water, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

Here's a link to some Enchanted Forest pictures, by someone trying to be spooky:

http://www.opacity.us/gallery70_through_the_fog.htm

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

Dogpatch USA:

http://www.undergroundozarks.com/gallery/albums/dogpatch/dogpatch34.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

Nice, PP. Here's the same place, but in color:

http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=1&threadid=52680&currpage=1&pp#post0

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

http://www.cityofsound.com/photos/uncategorized/rollercoaster.jpg

― negotiable, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 05:15 (seventeen years ago)

Nic pic! Any info on it?

― cardboard omnipresence (I am using your worlds), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 05:22 (seventeen years ago)

Just uploaded some photos I took of Westlake Ave. in Seattle this past summer, near the foot of Lake Union. Probably some the last conspicious squatters' paradise there will be for a long while if ever.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8031083@N04/sets/72157607316122510/

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 05:53 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/2862148938_53a8b50e4a.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2861317709_4a7da5a86d.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3105/2862148508_023d67bd66.jpg

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 06:03 (seventeen years ago)

Lol @ "T&A MOVED"

― Trayce, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 06:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1404/220627630922122f7fdni4.jpg

― ==つ~~~(o)(o) (libcrypt), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 06:19 (seventeen years ago)

ARO D
THE CUNNER

― Trayce, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 06:22 (seventeen years ago)

yep, here, xpost

http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2005/05/ghostly_rollerc.html

― negotiable, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 11:22 (seventeen years ago)

lots of cool ones here, actually: http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/research3.html

http://ruinsds.sakura.ne.jp/hashima/hashima002.jpg

― negotiable, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 11:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yTAYC3CCti0/SM-tZeBlH2I/AAAAAAAAAB0/f4wP4wZWgQI/s400/IMG_0111.JPG
Abandoned house in MA

― friendly ghost, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.smokehound.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/ryugyong-hotel.jpg

― rent, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 13:17 (seventeen years ago)

big!

― rent, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.wgpa.us//South4-Etsy.jpg Abandoned S. 4th St subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

― smothered under a rug (friendly ghost), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 00:59 (seventeen years ago)

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