Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here 2005

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and just as i'm back on my "abandoned places" kick, boing boing links to this page:
http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/research.html

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/NewFiles/komagari10.jpg

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/NewFiles/tama04.jpg

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

We read Boing Boing too.

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/NewFiles/shiei11.jpg

cover connection with:

http://www.solarstudio.com/tapestry/Pavement/images/slanted.jpg

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

"we"

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

No, oui.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't have pictures, and I can't find them on the internet, but Hoboken ferry terminal (I think?) as it was in May 2002.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.charnel.com/automatism/morbid5/far_from/claudius.jpg

I've broken into the old Oakland rail depot a few times. It's amazing, I crawled up in the rafters too. Supposed to be converted to a mall or something shortly.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Andy, please post some pictures of that Long's that used to be a movie theater on San Pablo for Jody!

― X-PAT (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Also, Sutro baths before and after:

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/parks/sutro-sf/grafx-sutro/sutro-baths.jpg
http://www.mindspring.com/~robertcjones/ca/calif.33.jpg

― X-PAT (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone broken into that empty school in the Presidio? We were gonna one night but saw a candle moving through the halls! No fucking way was I going up there, even armed with bottle rockets.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

The only abandoned building I've ever broken into: a cottage in the Outer Hebrides that had been abandoned ever since its last resident died. Going by the dates on the newspapers we found inside, that was about 20 years earlier.

http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/picpl19.php
http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/picpl20.php

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 April 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

this place is pretty fun but i wiped my hard drive after i took the pictures so here are someone else's:
http://community.webshots.com/album/323612333CpSveK

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 30 April 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.stanford.edu/~dplatt/Ruins/picsb/gandy1.jpg
the cult of the ruin trend to thread

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

if someone could paint disney land in ruins cory doctorow would be spent heh

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.beerbooks.com/images/products/4000/large/4149.jpg

My friends and I used to sneak into the old brewery in our town all the time as kids. It closed down during prohibition and had all these secret tunnels in the basement. Spooky!

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

i love the pictures i've seen of the abandoned buffalo central terminal.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/punkrockrat/sets/101288/show/

― reno sweeney (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

This thread makes me really really wish that I had a digital camera. Or indeed any kind of camera whose film costs less than £1 a shot. Because I've seen some interesting abandonned things in recent years.

An abandonned tube station in Highgate. An entire abandonned village at Imber. Various abandonned barns and houses and things in Wiltshire.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, you've been to Imber.

There's a good website for photos of closed Underground stations, including Highgate High Level.* I've forgotten the URL, though.

* pedantry: as far as I can remember Underground trains never actually served Highgate High Level, so it's technically not a tube station. It's certainly not listed in the Disused Underground Stations book.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Ed to thread! I think it was for a short time actually serviced by the underground! It was only used for rolling stock for most of its life, but I think it was a tube station... anyway, like I said, Ed to thread.

Imber, though, was a total mindf*ck. Spent shells everywhere. You were warned not to go too far off the official paths because of unexploded armament. Bits of it really are like the surface of the moon or something, huge craters and mangled bits of metal that might once have been tanks.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm never very good on the history of Underground lines built by non-Underground companies and vice-versa. I was fairly sure, though, that Highgate HL was closed along with the route from there to Finsbury Park, when the routes which branched off at Finsbury Park* were transferred from the London & North Eastern Rly. to London Transport in the 1940s; and that Highgate HL was never served by LT passenger trains.

* originally all these branches - to Alexandra Palace, High Barnet and Edgware - were going to become Northern Line branches; in the end, the Alexandra Palace branch was closed and the Edgware branch was truncated to Mill Hill East. Some 1940s Underground maps show all three as projected routes, though.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

You will have to fight this one out with Ed. I admit that I am not an expert.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

To change the subject, did anyone else think of the start of Spirited Away when they saw the photos at the top of the thread?

("it must be an abandoned theme park! they built lots of them in the '90s", or something like that)

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Actually it reminded me of this abanonned hotel in upstate NY (I think?) that my dad and I explored a decade ago.

There was an abandonned country club near the house that I grew up in, as well. That was cool - especially the drained swimming pool.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

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