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- DrDragun, on 03/19/2008, -0/+36Dugg for Pabst and the creepiest Bert+Ernie ever
- eyloni, on 03/19/2008, -1/+22Fascinating. I love urban history explorations.
- suxmonkey, on 03/19/2008, -1/+17What I find particularly interesting is how little we notice some of these in our every day lives. Thousands of people probably drive by that Ford factory every day without knowing it was the first place in the world to have an auto assembly line which forever changed the nature of technology.
- strictnein, on 03/19/2008, -0/+16They _really_ need to update how they format those pages. It's ridiculously horrible and it would be so simple to fix:
[h2]Location Name[/h2]
[p]Location Blurb[/p]
IMAGES
[some spacing / separation]
Repeat as necessary - Donwangugi, on 03/19/2008, -0/+9Really, they should just do an entire one on the city of Detroit. Once one of the more important cities in America, the area surrounding downtown is completely abandoned. Consider the old train station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Stat ...
The building was used for the final part in Transformers, because there are very few abandoned buildings in LA. - DeskFlyer, on 03/19/2008, -0/+5Glad to see the Pabst brewery on that list; check out what they are doing to the site now: http://www.thebrewerymke.com/index.htm
- mshifley, on 03/19/2008, -0/+5The Gaebler Children’s Center is definitely creepy.
- notque, on 03/19/2008, -0/+4and the nature of worker's rights. eroding like the building.
- BoneStamp, on 03/19/2008, -0/+4"1800s" is what the article says (not 1880s).
- Richandler, on 03/19/2008, -1/+5All of these factories should be converted to paintball or airsoft arenas.
- AManWithNoName, on 03/19/2008, -0/+4All these abandoned place lists on Web Urbanist need to be compiled together. I'd much rather have one long list of abandoned places rather than a billion lists of 7.
- dracostimpy, on 03/19/2008, -2/+5"Currently the structure is used to house assorted documents and artifacts" != "abandoned".
- Lhuth, on 03/19/2008, -0/+3Amazes me how huge and impressive some of these sites are, yet how they can go ignored and abandoned for so long.
- DigTheDoug, on 03/19/2008, -1/+4That's in metric time.
- oddball, on 03/19/2008, -0/+3you lose...
- BoneStamp, on 03/19/2008, -1/+4I read "1800s" in the article.
- BoneStamp, on 03/19/2008, -0/+3Should turn it into a steampunk style Casino.
- cawpin, on 03/19/2008, -0/+3FTA: "Once the largest brewer in America, the Pabst Brewery was opened in the mid-1880s and closed its doors over a century and a half later in the mid-1990s."
What? 110 years is over a century and a half? - tidu, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2That aspect of Ernie's life isn't suitable for a kid's show like Sesame Street
- BirdCatcher, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2Shut-up you're messing up my movie
- atomicwedgie, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2We have the abandoned Kings Park Sanitarium on LI near where I grew up. A friends father had worked there for like 20 years and after it had been closed for a while, a few of us wanted to go scout it out. His father insisted that we were INSANE and that he would NEVER even think about it because the place was creepy enough when it was open. We took his advice.
- inactive, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2It brings to mind old textile mills. Once the backbone of manufacturing, now lay waste to the elements, in solitude, taking the memories with them.
- celerityfm, on 03/20/2008, -0/+2I'd like to formally add the abandoned movie set from The Abyss, to the list:
http://www.historicdecay.com/component/ option,com_rsgallery2/Itemid,26/catid,5/
epic story of someone visiting (With pics) - http://www.x-plane.com/adventures/abyss.html
and of course http://abandonedabyssclassic.ytmnd.com/ - hoodmonkey, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2I can't believe how many of you are actually comparing real life to some video game.. go outside :(
- BoneStamp, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2Dugg for Pabst
- A11YND, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2Mirror?
- peregrine, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2I live real close to that pabst building. I've always wanted to go explore but the fear of finding the police or some crazy gang has held me back.
- jEsusextRact, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1I was thinking the same thing. Does anyone know of a site that lists abandoned buildings in their area? There is an abandoned insane asylum near me. My friends and I have gone several times and have been creeped the ***** out each time. I have searched for any mention of the asylum on google but have yet to find any. A directory of abandoned buildings in the U.S. is sorely needed.
- matt.rubin, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1Oh much I would pay to go paintballing in any of those. Its like a fps but in RL!
- ALBIN0RHIN0, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1I hate to nit pick the article, but its incorrect. The first automotive assembly line was actually at the Ransom Olds Motor Company in Lansing Michigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olds_Motor_Vehicle_Co ...
"...an invention that is often miscredited to Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company" - dbalaski, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1Hartford Drive in ???
I used to live 5 blocks away from there --- it really wasn't all that impressive.
It was one screen, cinder block building in a field off the Berlin Turnpike.
There are other places I would have ranked higher -- I know of a beautiful 1910 Fishing Camp on Lake Champlain North Hero Island VT that was abandoned in the 1970 -- I was last up there in the late 90s
overgrown, but it was like stepping back into 1920s .. Even the huge Dinning hall was still there..
.
How about Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Institute -- abandoned in 2000 ? Much cooler.
or
The Norwich State Hospital, located in Preston, Connecticut and Norwich, Connecticut, was a mental health facility for almost a century, from October 1905 to its closure on October 10. 1996 -- http://designedbreakdown.com/photo/norwich/index.h ... - inactive, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1AWSOME! love abandoned buildings n such. Killer find.
- Ovii, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1digg claims another server...
- jbmcb, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1Really cool pics, but the Highland Park building isn't abandoned. I think Ford uses it as a warehouse, as hinted in the article. I wonder why they didn't show the Fisher Body plant, or the incredible, sprawling Packard Plant instead.
- manstein01, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1Actually, many around here (Lowell, MA, ground zero for 19th century mills) have been converted into apartments.
- snareguy17, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1So Condemned 3 is going to be centered around all of those.
- WhereAmI, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1dude we should go, I'm in stallis.
lol meeting people online. - CaptMonkey, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1I think the writer edited it. I directly copy-pasted.
- oddball, on 03/19/2008, -1/+2u lose....
- ashwinashwin, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1they look like excellent scenes for F.E.A.R. 2
- Chrispyc1211, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1Wow, the clip in Alaska is perfect inspiration for Half Life 2's City 17's various tenement buildings.
- Emmo213, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1Crap, I wish the edit was longer. I was thinking of the Hodge Building, not the Buckner Building. Buckner is abandoned.
- WhereAmI, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1I did that once. Went through a tunnel that led to a church, but the tunnel was flooded.
Broke my phone, but good times. I would love a site like that. - DeadAsDillinger, on 03/19/2008, -1/+2America itself may soon be an abandoned wonder.
- Kinsbane, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1Dugg for Eden Hall. That place looks cool as hell.
- Emmo213, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1They still use parts of that building to house people. Just about the only things in Whittier anymore is the railyard and port. When the railroad needs to keep somebody onsite overnight they put them up in that building. It's really weird to see this tiny town with a gigantic building, and Whitter is a neat place to visit. Driving through the tunnel though is kinda freaky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Anderson_Memori ... - limevelyn, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1Some of these site still look awesome!
- tidu, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1You mean, the Temple of Time?
- hutch113, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1If you think that is interesting, you should also check out Idlewild, Michigan. It was a thriving town for African-Americans when racism was still really prevalent.
- WhereAmI, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1Pabst is going under construction now. I'm not over there often but I see alot of construction work.
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