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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 7, 2012 17:53:06 GMT -6
Share Your Love Of Old &/Or Abandoned Buildings/Sites Here.
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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 7, 2012 17:54:01 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Nov 8, 2012 5:34:11 GMT -6
Oooo, Joxie, thanks for the link. The photos are eerie - some of them downright creepy - but all very beautiful.
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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 8, 2012 17:04:55 GMT -6
You and Siren were the first two I thought of when I saw these photos. If I could remember where the carnival/parks links were I'd add them here too.
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Post by Siren on Nov 8, 2012 22:25:28 GMT -6
Oh gosh, you KNOW I love this stuff. Thank you!! Here's a link to a site created by a person who loves it as much as Gams and I do. www.abandonedok.com/
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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 9, 2012 0:19:03 GMT -6
You're both very welcome. I love to find & share things members here will enjoy.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 11, 2012 8:47:04 GMT -6
Cool site, Siren - great stuff. I've gotta ask - have you ever visited any of those places?
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Post by Siren on Nov 20, 2012 21:35:24 GMT -6
I have been to a couple of those little towns. But the only way you'd get me into a creepy old abandoned hospital, school, or factory is online. I am an admitted chicken. Cluck cluck CLUCK!!
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Post by stepper on Nov 21, 2012 20:56:07 GMT -6
Ah Siren, it's okay. You know we wouldn't abandon you in a creepy old abandoned hospital, school, or factory . But how do you feel about abandoned malls?
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Post by Phalon on Nov 22, 2012 8:11:08 GMT -6
I don't think I could do an abandoned school or hospital - way, way too creepy, and my imagination would probably get the better of me. A factory, though - yep, I'd do that. Uhm....depending on what they made. Torture devices (like the ones the Dental Dominatrix uses, for example) - no. Hostess cupcakes...probably yes.
I wonder what'll happen to all the Hostess factories, now that they're closing? Will they be allowed to slowly disintegrate, until one day, they'll end up in photos on sites like the ones Joxie and Siren posted? Perhaps the bigger question would be, one hundred years from now, will abandoned Twinkies still be fresh inside their wrappers?
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Post by stepper on Nov 22, 2012 17:04:09 GMT -6
Sadly, even though union representatives knew it would close the company, they refused to negotiate in good faith insisting the Hostess had to pay more than it could afford rather than them accepting pay cuts and keeping their jobs.
Hostess laid off 15,000 people yesterday - the day before Thanksgiving. I understand the company is trying to liquidate their facilities as soon as possible because everyday they are shut down the buildings cost the company revenue AND lose value, their trucks have to be insured until disposed of, etc. I read someplace that several smaller start up companies are interested in the bakeries near their base of operations.
Inevitably, some of the facilities, distribution centers most likely, will be abandoned. And someone will go through the dark and dust remains of a once bustling business, snap some pictures and post them on the web along with a story about how this used to be a part of the Hostess empire. The reason they know it was part of the Hostess empire is obvious as the pictures include a few dusty boxes of Twinkies with faded out lettering, but still edible cakes inside. None of explorers will have sufficient courage to sample one.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 5, 2013 8:46:22 GMT -6
I have been meaning to get back to this thread for a long time.... Leave it to teenage boys to relate the closing of Hostess to the coming of the Zombie Apocalypse, (eye-roll). Ever see the movie "Zombieland"? It's a comedy - a parody of sorts of the more "serious" zombie apocalypse type movies. In it Woody Harrelson's character is a badass zombie killer who will do anything to find the last remaining Twinkie in a land overrun by zombies (apparently, when the apocalypse took place, every last remaining person alive decided they must run out and get Twinkies instead of gasoline and other grocery store products; there seems to be plenty of those non-Twinkie items to go around in the movie). All Harrelson's character finds is those cupcakes with that thick plastic-like layer pink coconut marshmallow ick on top. There's not a Twinkie to be had. Same here. When Hostess went out of business, their products quickly disappeared off the shelves of grocery stores and quick marts everywhere, (LX offered me a bite of a Ho-Ho from a gas station; I declined. "But Mom! It's the last Ho-Ho you'll ever have!!!" I haven't had a Ho-Ho since I was in grade school; I think I'll survive.) No more Ho-Hos, no chocolate cupcakes, no Ding Dongs....and no Twinkies. All that remains is the pink marshmallow topped cupcakes. Surely this is a sign! (I just shake my head and walk away when they tell me this stuff.) I have to say though, the demise of Hostess affected Hubs too - he could not have his traditional Thanksgiving left-over turkey, cheese, and Miracle Whip sandwich...which traditionally he has to have on Wonder Bread. When I was in grade school (the last time Hostess snack cakes appealed to me), one of our school's yearly field trips was to the Wonder Bread factory in Detroit. I don't remember what grade I was in, but I remember the trip clearly; my boss and I reminisce about that factory trip often. Although she's nearly twenty years older than I, grew up in a suburb of Detroit about an hour away from the small town out in the sticks where I grew up, her elementary school did the Wonder Bread factory too. It was so cool to see a line of loaves slide down metal chutes from way up high - kind of like a bobsled run - go through the slicer, and end up in that package with the red, yellow, and blue dots. The best part of the trip though, was at the end of the tour each kid got a small palm-sized loaf of still warm bread. I got curious, and drilled to see if the Wonder Bread factory was still doing school tours up until the time Hostess went out of business. It wasn't - the factory closed long ago, and sat abandoned for some time until it was turned into a casino. Drilling, I stumbled on a site with some gorgeous photos of abandoned Detroit (which if you've ever driven through, you'd be shocked to see how much of the city appears to be abandoned). There are a few photos of places I remember my Mom talking about in their heyday - The Michigan Theater is one, and the Fisher Body plant was where my grandfather worked. blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/07/captured-the-ruins-of-detroit/2672/
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 5, 2013 16:29:12 GMT -6
I love Sno-Balls. I will miss them and Suzy Qs.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 6, 2013 8:24:30 GMT -6
Sno Balls! I'd forgotten the name; actually, I don't know if I ever knew they had a name. I also never knew of anyone who actually liked them...or in the least, admitted they liked them. Really, Joxie?
You're not the only one, of course (maybe all the others are closet Sno Ball lovers, ashamed to admit they like something so gross). I did a quick drill and found that they made their debut on the market in 1947, and 25 million of them sold each year. That's a heck of a lot of Sno Balls, enough for a small avalanche that would bury the unsuspecting town below in a thick layer of plastic pink. It pales in comparison though to the number of Twinkies sold per year - a whopping 500 million!
Proving that people will buy anything on e-bay...and that Americans love their junk food: a box of Twinkies sold for $60 shortly after Hostess closed.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 6, 2013 17:36:15 GMT -6
How did they go under with all they were making? I wouldn't be surprised if they reopened under a new name. Those recipes must be worth some money too.
BTW: Not ashamed to admit I'm a Sno-Ball lover. Guess I need to find a recipe to make those myself. Suzy Qs too.
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Post by Siren on Jan 20, 2013 23:46:42 GMT -6
Thank you for mentioning the Detroit Theater, Gams. I have read about it before, but had forgotten. Oh, what I would give to have seen it in its glory! Imagine, a stage big enough to hold a circus! It's an interesting story, reading about its rise and fall. But it's a sad story, too. historicdetroit.org/building/michigan-theatre/
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Post by Phalon on Jan 21, 2013 8:38:33 GMT -6
I think so too, Siren. Mom used to talk about its opulence; the time period she would have gone there would be during the 40's. Remember that rice packet I found in one of Mom's book that I sent you - I think the movie advertised was "Tokyo Joe"? It was from Michigan Theatre. Going to Michigan Theatre was a treat; most often, she'd go to Harper Theater, another big movie palace in Detroit during that time. While Michigan Theatre was turned into a parking garage, Harper Theater became Harpos - a metal concert hall. I've been there; my brother, who frequents the place fairly often, took me. Scary place, in a bad part of town. Nothing like it used to be, Mom used to say. cinematreasures.org/theaters/2263 Here's a third of Detroit's grand movie theaters; this one is currently abandoned. cinematreasures.org/theaters/2075
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Post by Siren on Jan 21, 2013 11:12:01 GMT -6
Oh my gosh, Gams. The rice packet is from the Michigan? One of their big-event films? I can imagine how your mom looked back then, excited as she walked into that splendid theater. That is so, so neat! Wow. Thank you, again, very much.
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Post by katina2nd on Jan 21, 2013 19:21:46 GMT -6
Nice links Gams, makes me yearn for the splendid old movie theatres we used to have here before quality gave way to convenience.
Time for a group weep from yourself, Siren and your's truly.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 23, 2013 7:01:22 GMT -6
I'm pretty sure I'm remembering right when I say it's from Michigan Theatre, but I could be wrong. The theater name is printed on the packet.
I think it's a shame all those glorious old buildings were just left to decay. It also gets me that all that stuff in them was just left too. When looking through the "Ruins of Detroit" link I posted on the previous page, I was amazed at the amount of things still inside the buildings....a whole library full of books, for example! I even saw some stuff I'd love to scrounge - that wooden mail slot thingie, with all the compartments and drawers is so cool. I'm not sure what I'd ever do with it, but I'd love to have it!
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Post by stepper on Jan 24, 2013 22:41:30 GMT -6
It also gets me that all that stuff in them was just left too. When looking through the "Ruins of Detroit" link I posted on the previous page, I was amazed at the amount of things still inside the buildings....a whole library full of books, for example! I even saw some stuff I'd love to scrounge - that wooden mail slot thingie, with all the compartments and drawers is so cool. I'm not sure what I'd ever do with it, but I'd love to have it! I saw a show on cable recently and that's exactly what it was about. These guys go into abandoned buildings looking for stuff they can salvage and sell for a profit. And they find all kinds of interesting stuff. I'm amazed about some of the things that are simply left behind - empty safes, expensive large weight scales, and quite a bit of furniture. One of the shows was about going through an abandoned motel and more than half of the furniture had been left behind including paintings, lamps, clocks, end tables. etc.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 26, 2013 8:23:46 GMT -6
On camping trips up north when we were kids, Dad would say "Let's go for a ride." He'd always find some back road in the area we were camping, often a two-track through the woods. We'd look for deer, wild blueberries, fallen logs that he'd cut for our campfire....and abandoned buildings. He'd go in first to make sure it was safe, then we'd follow. Sometimes we'd get to take a souvenir - a bottle, plate, or some other small trinket. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff people leave behind.
Back then it was high adventure. Now, I wonder why these houses were just abandoned.
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Post by stepper on Jan 26, 2013 12:28:48 GMT -6
Back then it was high adventure. Now, I wonder why these houses were just abandoned. Still sounds like an adventure to me. And the reasoning behind the discovery is certainly a part of the adventure. I'd love to take a metal detector with me and scour the area for hidden treasures. I don't have a bucket list, but if I did, this would be one of the very few things in it - finding lost treasures at forgotten sites.
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Post by scamp on Jan 27, 2013 19:56:01 GMT -6
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 28, 2013 0:58:39 GMT -6
Help with what? Your link was fine.
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Post by stepper on Jan 28, 2013 20:07:41 GMT -6
It is quite the tourist attraction is it not? Can you imagine living near there when the heat waves killed people instantly? Or having meter after meter of ash falling until the city was lost while all you could do was watch from across the bay at Misenum? The destruction was so sudden that it encapsulated people and goods - scientists can still tell what kind of fruits were being sold. They make molds of the cavities where bodies were entombed under the ash and then decomposed leaving images of themselves in ash 'voids'. It is a trove of information about Roman life at the time.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 31, 2013 7:09:47 GMT -6
I would agree. It's fascinating.
Kind of reminds me of a blog post I'm (thinking of) writing that includes a blurb about what is sometimes referred to as "Michigan's Pompeii" - a town from the 1800s that was buried by the shifting sands of Lake Michigan's dunes.
In the very least, it reminds that I should probably start writing it before the thought is completely buried by the shifting dust in my head.
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Post by Mini Mia on Mar 3, 2013 18:49:45 GMT -6
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Post by Mini Mia on Jul 7, 2013 23:34:10 GMT -6
I got the link from a thread on Holly Lisle's How To Think Sideways forum.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 9, 2013 6:21:07 GMT -6
Very cool site, Joxie. I was perusing it last night, and ended up spending way more time on it than I had......and could spend hours more (and probably will) reading and looking at the photos.
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