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entry by insainly sound
3/3/2008 6:48 AM
| Today's adventure took me and two other explorers on probably what was the toughest exploration I've attempted to day. This site required a 20' climb down, followed by an exhilarating climb up. This is the second time I've attempted this site, with the first one resulting in failure because the other explorer I was with couldn't make the climb up. The only we were successful today was by a push and pull set up where one explorer pulled one up, while I was at the bottom pushing her up. However, once inside the work was well worth it. The site was one of the most amazing I've seen.
The building was completed in 1918 designed by renowned San Francisco architect Frederick H. Meyer. The building served as the local administrative offices of a national steel company. This building was focused on their ship building activities.
Upon climbing into the building, we found our way down to the basement, which used to contain the blueprint storage room, cafeteria, elevator hardware, and kitchen. As is often with the abandoned, there are weird things that have been left to rot in the buildings. In this case we found the intact cash register from the cafeteria, a number of once classified blueprints, and the sanitizer for the kitchen.
  
As we continued to progress through the basement, we found the screenplay for what appeared to be a gay porno film. Naturally we read it out loud, riveted as the characters got locked in a room together... See where that one was going? This appeared to be the last legal and legitimate use for this building back in 1999. Soon the munchies overtook me, and we progressed up to the next floor and soon I found the solution to my problem:
As we began our adventures of this floor, we quickly realized there wasn't that much interesting on this floor. This appeared to be the accounting and business offices of the building. Nothing that interesting was on this floor. Quickly we found ourselves adventuring up to the next floor where we stumbled across the jackpot, the reason we were there, the main lobby!
The panorama above doesn't even begin to do this room justice. It was amazing... It's a shame that the scrappers and taggers ruined the building for the rest of us. However this floor was the most amazing floor in the building and made the trip well worth it. Going down the two wings of the building were offices. Down one hall appeared to be the big-wig offices. Beautiful wooden floors, fantastic wooden paneling, and marble lining the walls of the hallways... And a beautiful fireplace that looks like it's never been used.
  
Time to progress another floor. This floor appeared to be the floor which the drafters and engineers worked on. The dead give away to this was the plotting machine that was left on the floor. As we were searching office to office, we found a locked door. As an explorer I HATE locked doors, but in this case I was sure that I could find a way around the door. As I opened the side door to the office that was locked, I found a homeless guy sprawled out on the floor, reading the paper. After a quick nod in his direction, we walked on, no harm, no foul.
  
There are two floors remaining on our adventure, a theater and a floor that's gone completely rotten. The theater was the typical corporate theater, but never the less we spent a while in there taking pictures.
Soon we found ourselves descending back to the file cabinet room, to climb back down and leave. As we were hoping the final fence between the building and the car, two separate cop cars almost caught us, but they didn't stop and kept driving, with bigger fish to fry, and many miles to go before they sleep.
Thus shortly later, I found myself driving home away from the site with an amazing adventure and awesome pictures. Full photoset is available here:
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