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2013-12-09 |
The Palais Garnier: V.I.P.trip into the heart of the Opéra de Paris. [Read more...] |
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2013-08-07 |
Brussels Metro: dive into the Brussels metro... [Read more...] |
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2013-02-02 |
Vilvoorde Prison: as many as 12,000 tramps, drunks, and prostitutes, all those that the society of the time considered a nuisance, were crammed in on four floors. The vaulted cells had narrow slits as the only source of light. A perpetual gloom reigned along the corridors that led to the many workshops... [Read more...] |
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2012-10-17 |
Internationale Film-Union GmbH: Little copy and synchronization studio lost in the woods. Don Camillo, Laurel & Hardy among many others have been germanized here... [Read more...] |
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2012-08-03 |
1936 Berlin's Olympic Village: like the 29 other Olympic villages, the 1936 edition has only had a short moment of glory. But unlike the others, the 1936 Olympics is possible the most significant games in our history [Read more...] |
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2012-03-28 |
Antwerp's Forensic Institute: between death and oblivion the body must undergo -tests-. Before being laid to rest. In the tranquility of legality. Thanatos comes to the aid of logic. [Read more...] |
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2011-12-31 |
Spreepark - The Abandoned Amusement Park: located downtown East-Berlin, this theme park is now lost forever, and fights with the ghosts of its past... [Read more...] |
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2011-10-21 |
Cane Hill Asylum: formerly an urbex trophy in the early 2000's, this asylum is... no more. [Read more...] |
Recent comments list
Il faut préserver notre patrimoine archéologique, c'est dommage qu'on démoli de tels sites, c"est honteux même
super dessin, une main qui caresse le chien et l'autre qui veut le poignarder ...
Brigham is gone, that was my favorite building. I don't know if anybody noticed, or cares anymore...
Je m'intéresse à l'urbex depuis peu et ça faisait un moment que je voyais des photos de ce fameux cimetière de locos.
En traînant sur google earth ce soir je viens de m'apercevoir (avec surprise) que j'ai habité juste à côté (à moins de 100 mètres d'ailleurs) quand j'étais plus jeune, jusqu'en 1996. Dommage que je n'ai pas été voir ça de plus près à l'époque, car il paraît que beaucoup de locos ne sont plus là aujourd'hui...
Wow, what memories of Toyland in the Village Shopping Center. As I recall it was next to the Tittles Grocery store right before you got to Montgomery Wards. The smell in that area was incredible because it was also the same location for the Chuck Wheeler hot dog stand right outside Toyland. Toyland was truly a great place to go to purchase plastic models and of course all of the supplies for my chemistry set. And if they didn't have what we wanted we went across the street to Riss Sales. If only those days could return. Great memories!!
Wow, all of you guys bringing up the Village Shopping Center sure does bring back fond memories of my grandfather, L. I Combs (an early settler of Gary, 1910) who built the Center as he called it in 1955. It was an immediate success as being the only center of its kind ever built. He, along with my father, Allen E. Combs and uncle Leslie I Combs, jr were a bunch of proud people when it opened to a full parking lot. Not many of the original stores remain, but the last time I was there, all stores were occupied, some after changing hands many times. Do you remember Santa coming in the helicopter, quite a thing back then and the hot dog guy, best hot dogs ever.
has it all been demolished then??
I think i was stopped by the same cop.He seemed to be a decent guy,i was walking my dog up their with my son a couple of months ago.He asked for id and checked me out and knew we werent hurting anything .So he let us go .We talked for about 10 min.I was carrying my .357(legally) which i told him and he stated that it was a good idea to be up their packing because alot of homeless and drug addicts go up their and Will try to rob the unsuspected so be careful if you go their because you never know who could be hiding or living in them empty buildings.oh yea he also said that they work staggered shifts and some of the cops dont like working up at the psych center at night so they wont take the shifts.It is a nice place to walk around and explore but thanks to all the LOWLIFES that wrecked and stole things like all the copper out of the buildings ,us people that just want to check the place out and are interested in the history of the place CANT. SO BE CAREFUL AND GIVE THE OLD PLACE THE RESPECT THAT IT DESERVE.
PIECE
Anyone remember the HUGE Christmas tree at Inland Steel?
Does anyone have photos of the life size Nativity scene at Christmas time that was on the hill in front of St. Marks church on Ridge Road? The figures were later replaced with cheap large plastic ones. But I'd like to find photos of the original crib.
Thanks!