Industrial Slumming

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

Anyone here like to go industrial slumming?

Checking old old abandoned and obsolete industrial sites, usually in larger citys...areas with big old mulitstory "loft" factorys (steel mills are OK too) railroad yards and industrialized watefronts, and tumbledown neighborhoods?

It sort of a "pleasure of ruins" thing (even tho these sites might still be used for manufacturing).

[madrchsod]

1. dam there is a website from Europe

that has pictures of abandoned buildings and the photographer writes about his experiences in shooting these places..if i could only remember!!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

2. There is some beauty in that.

I'm a photographer, the decay makes interesting photos.
In WS, we have the old RJR factory downtown (it takes up a forth of downtown), and the surrounding area is loaded with character.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

4. eggs-ackly!

....in Springfield, Ohio there is the old Crowe-Collier printing plant that takes up a few blocks.

abandoned downtowns and buisness districts are also interesting.

[Intelsucks]

3. I drove through Gary, Indiana once

I sure hope it doesn't get any worse than that, but something tells me it probably does.

[spinbaby]

5. Weirton Steel

I know a man who until recently worked for the struggling Weirton Steel company. Huge decaying hunk of a building that they're still making some steel in. He says that one evening, a small herd of deer wandered into the building and then wandered out the other side--there was so empty open space in there that the steelworkers and the deer never disturbed each other.