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IndoAnomaly
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| | | | Re: Photo Exploring Scavenger Hunt Pt. II < Reply # 1866 on 7/8/2015 6:36 PM >
| | | Posted by Bvmblebee Wow that is really cool, any story behind the place you found it? Here's some high society.
| Well, the building was built in the 1930's and originally used by the federal government to classify and evaluate imports for duties and taxes as they came into the port of Houston. However, as the port grew, the building could no longer house the expanding operations. In the late 1990's, the property was sold off by the federal government and bought by an individual who it appears enjoyed collecting. Antique cars, antique bikes, statues, dirt bikes, furniture, etc. At some point one of the rooms in the building was converted into the beginnings of a grow operation, complete with fertilizer, lights, and grow kits. There were no actual plants when I visited. That's as far as the history as I could come up with. Sadly we are on hiatus from revisiting to develop a greater history; a man paid to watch the property pulled a gun on a fellow explorer the day after I visited. One of the most interesting buildings I have ever been inside. I don't think we stumbled upon an active grow operation. Even that appeared abandoned. Still scary.
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| Dee Ashley
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| | | | Re: Photo Exploring Scavenger Hunt Pt. II < Reply # 1869 on 7/8/2015 7:53 PM >
| | | Posted by IndoAnomaly
Well, the building was built in the 1930's and originally used by the federal government to classify and evaluate imports for duties and taxes as they came into the port of Houston. However, as the port grew, the building could no longer house the expanding operations. In the late 1990's, the property was sold off by the federal government and bought by an individual who it appears enjoyed collecting. Antique cars, antique bikes, statues, dirt bikes, furniture, etc. At some point one of the rooms in the building was converted into the beginnings of a grow operation, complete with fertilizer, lights, and grow kits. There were no actual plants when I visited. That's as far as the history as I could come up with. Sadly we are on hiatus from revisiting to develop a greater history; a man paid to watch the property pulled a gun on a fellow explorer the day after I visited. One of the most interesting buildings I have ever been inside. I don't think we stumbled upon an active grow operation. Even that appeared abandoned. Still scary.
| Wait, is this the one that had the DOJ sticker on the door and I was raving about the stairs from one of your photos? I didn't hear the part about someone else getting a gun pulled on them! Yikes.
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