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denton_robo
Location: Denton, TX Gender: Male Total Likes: 34 likes
| | | Re: What got you into Urban Exploration? < Reply # 68 on 5/3/2017 3:32 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My grandmother, of all things, got me into "exploring". Backstory: When i was a young lad in the late 70's and early 80's and living in a small town in Texas, our recreational activities used to include climbing into a truck and just "ridin' around". From this, my grandmother and aunt would usually be the ones doing to driving and i'd tag along (in hopes we'd get to go to a garage sale or something else cool). Most of the time, we took little winding dirt roads that generally ended up by old graveyards, ghost towns and abandoned farms/houses. We would often just stop at these places and walk into them to see what was there. At the time, i think the thrill of being somewhere we shouldn't be and seeing stuff that no one had seen for a while was the big thrill. Most of the time, it was relatively harmless and we'd just be in the attic of some house wondering how a set of rocking chairs got up there...sometimes we found things like jars full of preserved animals in a cellar. Rural Texas is an interesting place and i still enjoy finding what i can wherever i go. As an adult, part of me wants to see these places not "disappear" and live on in some way. While i totally "get" why things do end up getting demolished, it absolutely saddens me each time it happens. The bigger and more historic the place is, the more i feel like it's such a waste. (take a look at the recent Swift Meat Packing in Fort Worth for an example.) I love history and architecture and the little details that went into crafting a building/home/business and have the mentality that if i don't see it today, it may not be there tomorrow.
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| Barry Bee
Location: Montréal, Canada Total Likes: 2 likes
| | | Re: What got you into Urban Exploration? < Reply # 69 on 5/3/2017 4:11 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Through my travels, I needed places where I could shit in peace. You see, I suffer from a very severe case of tourette's syndrome; people wouldn't let me use their toilets because all my ticks, screaming and swearing were scaring them, and the words supposed to convey my feelings would get buried under the tourette's. Sadly, trying to sneak into forbidden grounds is no easy task whilst shouting obscenities, so, throwed out, I often ended up having to shit in my pants. It may seem funny, but it's really not. I cry evry time
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| fluffy_bunnies
Location: Toronto, ON Gender: Neither Total Likes: 16 likes
| | | Re: What got you into Urban Exploration? < Reply # 73 on 5/24/2017 11:15 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Going into all the to-be-demolished houses in my neighbourhood, last summer... There's huge turnover in the real estate market in Toronto, especially where I live in the north end, so absurd amounts of older homes in some areas end up getting bought up every summer, surrounded by demo fencing, and then harangued by backhoes until they fall down. Then they build monuments to excess atop the carcasses, and call it a day. Oh, not before they have some sap with too much money (or too little) buy it up and throw their family into it, while chanting some verse about "equity". Anyway. All these old homes end up being demolished regardless, so I decided to pop into one on a whim last summer. My first exploration was a pretty pristine house on a very quiet street which was going to be taken down a few months later. Unlocked front, no utilities, gigantic amount of space. I called it the "Scarface house" on account of the crazy thirty-foot floor-to-ceiling mirrors and middle-of-the-room fireplace in the living room. Missing the gargantuan desk topped with a mountain of coke, though. It was pretty in line with the decadence of the eighties, however. Ended up taking two of my friends through since it was so interesting, and one of them became my exploration buddy because of it. We haven't done much yet, but we're ambitious and have relatively decent agility. And now, I just like the history and intrigue of places which have been shut down or are being remodeled. Walking through somewhere completely stripped down from its original purpose, thinking about all the stories and happenings inside a certain place... That, and the adrenaline rush from being a little sneaky-sneak and climbing around on shit. Posted by Barry Bee Through my travels, I needed places where I could shit in peace. You see, I suffer from a very severe case of tourette's syndrome; people wouldn't let me use their toilets because all my ticks, screaming and swearing were scaring them, and the words supposed to convey my feelings would get buried under the tourette's. Sadly, trying to sneak into forbidden grounds is no easy task whilst shouting obscenities, so, throwed out, I often ended up having to shit in my pants. It may seem funny, but it's really not. I cry evry time
| On a side note, Barry, you're my fucking hero.
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