Comments on: Abandoned but not forgotten.

Abandoned but not forgotten.

dersins — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:00:27 -0800

Abandoned places: A satellite facility. A drag strip. A sports arena. A factory. A highway. A school. Another factory. An industrial park. A missile site. A church. A brewery. And much more at Abandoned But Not Forgotten. (Warning: Web 0.2 site with very large photos of variable quality...)

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:05:37 -0800

As I looked at the highway link, I thought, "what a great bike lane!" Sure enough, it seems that it's being turned into a bike trail. Too bad for me it's in Western PA.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:09:47 -0800

I'd pay some good money for a couple of the Falstaff Beer crates in the brewery link. Falstaff! Beer! I can hear the chimes at midnight now.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:09:55 -0800

Woah. Time for a road trip!

By: frobozz

frobozz — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:12:07 -0800

I see they also have Centralia Pa, my own favorite abandoned place (although I've never actually been). This site has more pictures of it.

By: These Premises Are Alarmed

These Premises Are Alarmed — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:18:19 -0800

I hope the folks in the metal theft thread don't find out about that satellite facility...

By: mkb

mkb — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:21:12 -0800

Related, but Rhode Island-centric.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:28:53 -0800

Regarding the "Freight Yard" link - pardon me for just a moment... *dons his detective and urban spelunker caps* Those trailers aren't exactly abandoned. Abused, perhaps, but most certainly very recently inhabited. You don't get that kind of accumulated, un-faded, non-decomposing trash without an active consumer present. The squalor has obviously been stirred recently, as there's very little dust - which usually settles and accumulates quite quickly when a room is left undisturbed, even with open windows. Heck, there's even a washing machine and dryer with obvious signs of recent use. Also, considering the industrial sized box of Lexapro and the "Bizarre Obsessions" fetish porno rag - combined with what is likely a great deal of solitude - well, it's entirely possible that the current inhabitant is a wee bit unstable. Fellow explorers, I don't know what you would have done but that would have been my cue to make a hasty retreat.

By: SinisterPurpose

SinisterPurpose — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:31:56 -0800

It's too bad that most of this stuff hasn't been repurposed at all. It makes me physically angry when I see all the new poorly constructed developments everywhere. Hey. I wonder if independent films could use these as locations. Well, I'm off to write a screenplay that takes place at a satellite factory.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:42:09 -0800

Previously on Meta Filter . We really like musty old places around here .

By: craven_morhead

craven_morhead — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:43:45 -0800

The satellite one is pretty damn spiffy. I'm with loquacious on the "freight yard" link. Which isn't even really a freight yard. It looks to be a parking space for dying trailer homes.

By: Token Meme

Token Meme — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:45:45 -0800

More photos of Shuffletown drag strip can be found here.

By: casarkos

casarkos — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:48:28 -0800

The right to demolish and scrap the dishes and other structures has been auctioned off on ebay on March 13, 2005 for $136.20. (scroll down a bit) ::cries:: And here I was hoping I still had a chance at my very own Secondhand Evil Overlord Base.

By: quin

quin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:50:53 -0800

I am less than a half mile away from the Pabst brewery remains. (I can literally see the entire compound from a window by my desk) I've been wanting to explore them ever since I realized it was abandoned. It's absolutely massive. The pictures here are fantastic, but they really don't convey how huge the buildings are. I'll have to find out if the site did anything to get permission to enter, of if they just snuck in. I really want to get in there and take some photos of my own.

By: phirleh

phirleh — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:51:02 -0800

Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:55:47 -0800

We really like musty old places around here. Indeed. This isn't even the first time I've posted this sort of thing.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:02:33 -0800

Oh man, that satellite facility is cool. Bet it's seen many a teenage tryst. Ruins are fascinating. Ruins in the Andaman Islands. British colonial ruins in Northern India. The mystery of new electricity for a beautiful and abandoned village in France, Perillos. My likeable, personal account of places abandoned and neglected by J. Eric Smith, Hidden in Suburbia, a photo-essay about Latham, New York and its environs.

By: M.C. Lo-Carb!

M.C. Lo-Carb! — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:03:03 -0800

Love love these posts.

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:11:34 -0800

Hate hate these posts. All I need is some sweet abandoned places pr0n so I can waste the rest of the week on this site. You bastards.

By: b_thinky

b_thinky — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:18:00 -0800

I wish there was more info on how long the places have been abandoned for.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:30:34 -0800

That sports arena looks like it's been "abandoned" for all of a couple months. There's even a sign that has Feb. 16, 2007 on it. I don't really think that qualifies as abandoned. More like temporarily closed.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:33:52 -0800

Oh, and I was totally waiting for the freight yard to turn into a "I found a digital camera in the woods" kind of thing. That shit is creepy.

By: aerotive

aerotive — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:41:50 -0800

Great post. This made me think of one of the dying creatures from the movie version of War of the Worlds.

By: slogger

slogger — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:52:56 -0800

Great stuff. Too bad none of it's anywhere near me, although pretty much all of downtown East Saint Louis could be included in that gallery. Also, these are the best photos of the Pabst brewery I've seen

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:53:06 -0800

Anybody in Northern California ought to make it out to Bodie sometime. Way cooler than I expected.

By: prostyle

prostyle — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:53:24 -0800

Urban exploration is a lot of fun, and I was never so much concerned with trespassing charges as I was with stumbling across a mentally unstable homeless person high on god knows what who would then proceed to stab the shit out of me. The decay is so beautiful I suppose it's only natural they attract similarly wayward human inhabitants... You've got to visit these places before they are demolished and imploded, they take on such a surreal afterlife it's hard to describe just by viewing images, as striking as they are... as loquacious notes, the devil is always in the details.

By: Dillenger69

Dillenger69 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:04:22 -0800

The Hoover Dam looks like the place they filmed transformers. It also looks like the place they based part of Black Mesa on for Half Life 1.

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:11:22 -0800

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:23:03 -0800

That satellite dish looks like a great place for a skating video. But the grafitti is embarrassingly bad.

By: zoogleplex

zoogleplex — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:42:12 -0800

I love this stuff. More images for my art reference file! :)

By: watsondog

watsondog — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:28:14 -0800

One of my favourites is the Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields website. Some highlights:

Grand Central Air Terminal, Los Angeles, CA. Currently an abandoned building in the middle of Glendale with an inexplicably wide road running beside it, Grand Central was once TWA's main airport in Los Angeles.
Flushing Airport, Queens, NY. It's now the physical plant for the New York Times but you can still see the runway on the Google Maps satellite view.
Roosevelt Field, Queens, NY. Where Lindbergh began his voyage across the Atlantic. They paved aircraft paradise and put up a shopping mall.

By: evilcolonel

evilcolonel — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:32:31 -0800

Who wants to email the webmaster and break the news to him/her that Toledo is in Ohio, not Canada?

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:54:26 -0800

My likeable, personal account *yikes, meant to write A likeable, personal account...not My

By: lester's sock puppet

lester's sock puppet — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:24:22 -0800

ha. my favorite is chernobyl. i think this was a a meta post, but i'm too drunk to bother looking it up.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:28:53 -0800

Why would you abandon a highway? Especially with tunnels? Regarding Centralia, PA. Holy shit. However, the underground fire is still burning and will continue to do so for the indefinite future. There are no current plans to extinguish the fire, which is consuming an eight-mile seam containing enough coal to fuel it for 250 years I quite literally had no idea such a thing existed before tonight. Absolutely incredible.

By: Avenger

Avenger — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:49:38 -0800

You've all been hoodwinked. Those are just high-def screenshots from Half-Life 3.

By: saucysault

saucysault — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:50:52 -0800

The Old Mill near my house is a gorgeous pile of of old buildings, at some point to be replaced by overpriced condos.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:52:08 -0800

From your abandoned But Not Forgotten site, a beautiful abandoned village in Italy, Balestrino.

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:42:42 -0800

Why would you abandon a highway? Especially with tunnels? That was the point, they wanted less tunnels.

By: JJ86

JJ86 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:50:47 -0800

Interesting. It's always amazing to find your pictures used on someone's web site without any attribution. The Pabst pics would be mine. Thx for posting this, BTW.

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:45:46 -0800

For reals JJ86? They're great pictures-- thanks for taking them in the first place!

By: quin

quin — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:58:20 -0800

That is awesome JJ86, nice work. So, did you get any kind of permission, or did you just go in? I ask purely our of curiosity. Also, was it the kind of thing where a hard hat would be advisable?

By: JJ86

JJ86 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:50:33 -0800

Thanks. quin, I emailed you.