| Gunkanjima - Battleship Island |
[16 Dec 2009|11:56pm] |
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. :)
( A few more under the cut )
The rest of the series here.
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| Packing plant demolition |
[15 Dec 2009|02:51am] |
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x-posted to personal journal and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) creepgirlfrenzy
Since 1919, the KD Station has been a shining icon in the cattle processing town of Siouxicide City, Iowa. In 1949 an explosion inside the meat packing plant killed several people and thus the haunting stories began. When the plant shut down and the building later reopened with shops and restaurants, the stories got worse. Most of it stemmed from the place itself, not the spirits floating around the place.
Consider a dank building with only a handful of windows on the top floors and a labyrinth of cold, dirty corridors buzzing and scarcely lit with industrial lamps. The elevators were so decrepit they were always threatening to commit suicide and take the passengers with. The full suits of armor peering at you from a caged hallway never put one at ease, either. I never saw any of the rumored ghosts, though a couple people have told me about seeing White Tuxedo Man outside the costume shop. However, I nearly had a coronary when I rounded a corner and came face to face with my reflection in the enormous mirror I wasn't even aware of.
Over the years the building has hosted restaurants, night clubs, music shops, a beauty salon, a butcher, clothing stores, an archery shop, an arcade, and a dinosaur exhibit. In 2004 the building was condemned when a generator in the bowling alley burst into flames. Just before this, some friends and I got a chance to go on the closed off floors with a video camera. If the areas open to the public were considered dirty, the restricted was absolutely filthy. The beams on the third floor had completely caved in certain rooms and the minigolf course was riddled with mold. An army of dusty clowns had been stockpiled in a janitor's closet, though no one ever bothered to move the 6-foot grinding wheels even on the public floors. Most of the meathooks had been cleared out. Most of them. Sadly I have no way to upload clips from the video to the internet so as to illustrate the inside of the building. In 2006 little bastard children set another fire and the city made the decision to demolish it. It's finally happening.
( This is Iowa )
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| Pictures taken on Lenin's birthday four years ago in Penza region, Russia |
[15 Dec 2009|09:28am] |
Yes, these are the abandoned monuments to Lenin and the ruins of some churches and noble estates, which were abandoned because of the destrucitive activities of Lenin and his followers. In the background of the first monument you can see the ruin of the Intercession church (1905) in the village Ust'-Karemsha.
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| First Post |
[14 Dec 2009|02:49pm] |
Hello abandoned places fans!
I have been following this community for a while now and I am amazed by the awsome photographs one can find here!
This is my first post and I am sharing photos of an abandoned LORAN Station - located the Santa Maria island, Azores, Portugal. It was a Longe-Range Navigation Station operated by NATO, deactivated and in ruins since 1980.
( More Photos Here )
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[14 Dec 2009|02:44pm] |
I'm not sure if anyone is any good at going through old posts, but summer/sprinf of 2008 I posted pictures of Thornwald Mansion? It was a pretty popular post. I'm hoping someone could find it for me.
I wasn't able to take pictures past the fence, and didn't want to "break in". I contacted the city and they've gotten me in touch with the owner. I am hoping to show her the post I did here, and the positive feedback I got here from the community so that maybe she would let me take some more pictures, this time inside the fence, possibly in the Mansion? Thanks in advance if anyone can help!
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| This article was posted in the_recession |
[13 Dec 2009|01:39am] |
Ghosts of Shopping Past
"Landscaping overgrows, walls develop mildew, ceilings cave in—a building can be shut down, but that doesn’t make it go away. Brian Ulrich’s photographs of closed-down malls and big-box retail stores reveal the potential ghost towns lying inside successful shopping complexes all across America.
Photographer Brian Ulrich lives and works in Chicago. His work has been shown in Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Photography; Galerie f5.6 in Munich, among others. He is a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow. All images copyright the artist, all rights reserved."
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[12 Dec 2009|06:47pm] |
From this...
to this:
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| DDR - Rothenstein |
[11 Dec 2009|09:59am] |
Go with a BBC correspondent for a look at a weapon storage bunker built by the East German military. It's for sale. Maybe we could all pitch in and ...nevermind.
LINK ~VIDEO
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