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 vwgti101
 
Location: Paradise valley arizona (scottsdale)
Gender: Male
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 |  | old school on s massachusetts and 23'rd????? (seattle)
< on 8/13/2006 2:37 AM >
|  | | | it's a pretty large school it looks to have been well abandoned since the early 80's it has a old baseball field across the street and such. i would love to check this place out it looks pretty uhh sealed up and we all know that means great photos and exploring....
ok here is the url to get there and what it looks like click it
http://local.live....vl=1&scene=3703411
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MoleNet94
  
Location: Skagit County, WA
Gender: Male
| | Re: old school on s massachusetts and 23'rd????? (seattle)
<Reply # 1 on 8/13/2006 3:43 AM >
|  | | | Yeah. That's the ol' Colman School. A friend and I went by there and took boatloads of pictures earlier this year. Apparently, it's supposed to become some new african american museum or something. I keep hearing talk of it, then it never happens. There is (or was) a banner on the west side of the building for a while that advertised the whole "museum" thing. Last time I drove by, however, the banner was in tatters and the place looked as dead as ever.
A decade or so ago, a bunch of squatters took over the place and much civil unrest ensued. Consequently, after everybody got booted out, the school district put security cameras all over the building. While reviewing our high-res pictures, I got the distinct feeling that the cameras were fake (no wires, super simple-looking), but you never know.
It is a really cool-looking place, no doubt about it!
(edit) By popular request, I'll dig around tonight and see about posting some of our pictures.
-MoleNet94
[last edit 8/13/2006 2:47 PM by MoleNet94 - edited 1 times]
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MoleNet94
Location: Skagit County, WA
Gender: Male
| | Re: old school on s massachusetts and 23'rd????? (seattle)
<Reply # 2 on 8/14/2006 3:51 PM >
| | | | (sorry for the double-post)
Okee dokey, I've posted sized-down versions of some of the pictures. Sorry for not taking the time to make a cool photo gallery 'n' stuff 
http://silicon-arcana.com/molenet/colman
BTW, it would appear as though the "museum" thing really is underway, so I expect this site may no longer be considered abandoned. Here is a news story (video) broadcast on KING 5 TV just two months ago. Sadly, it doesn't show the *inside* of the building, but does show folks working around and entering the building:
http://www.king5.c...Id=68732&catId=231
May be worth another trip down there to see what they've done so far. My photos above were taken in mid February, better than three full months before the above story aired.
Regards,
MoleNet94
[last edit 8/14/2006 3:54 PM by MoleNet94 - edited 1 times]
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vwgti101
Location: Paradise valley arizona (scottsdale)
Gender: Male
me
| | Re: old school on s massachusetts and 23'rd????? (seattle)
<Reply # 3 on 8/14/2006 11:01 PM >
| | | | i seen a way in...through that broken window on the side of the place on the back side that camera is iffy i see them exact ones all the time in seattle and if you stand below them you can see they have a camera in them some of them as many as two in them pods and if it did catch you it would be hard to get away from the police and such due to its pretty much a island and they can sit around it im 90% i can get to that window.....but what do you think will happen if we get cought? i dont know seattle law and there tactics and how they act and such and so on
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Junix
 
Location: Pitt Meadows, BC, Canada
Gender: Male
Resident Firebrand
| | Re: old school on s massachusetts and 23'rd????? (seattle)
<Reply # 4 on 8/14/2006 11:30 PM >
| | | | I have scouted this building as well. I received much assistance from others who are better at research than I and discovered
Built in 1909
Colman School was the first school that many African American children attended in Seattle (I don’t know what that means)
The first school with African American teachers
Closed in 1985
that year a group of activists broke into the vacant building and demanded it be turned into a museum and stayed for eight years
In a classroom on the first floor, a blackboard still holds the "Things to do" list written in chalk years ago by the activists taking turns occupying the building
Tahir-Garrett, one of the original squatters tried to return in 1999 and was charged with property damage and criminal trespass
A security guard posted by the Seattle School District noticed a door ajar and called police.
I can attest that several days back in march ~noon I observed persons unlocking and entering the building using the main gate (south side) and the front door
I have also seen vandalism to the plywood then seen it repaired within the week. If you go, please don’t break anything
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Junix
Location: Pitt Meadows, BC, Canada
Gender: Male
Resident Firebrand
| | Re: old school on s massachusetts and 23'rd????? (seattle)
<Reply # 5 on 8/14/2006 11:36 PM >
| | | | PS. Hey moleman, long time.
Did you and your friend have opportunity to observe the interior of the building?
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MoleNet94
Location: Skagit County, WA
Gender: Male
| | Re: old school on s massachusetts and 23'rd????? (seattle)
<Reply # 6 on 8/15/2006 12:02 AM >
| | | | Posted by Junix
PS. Hey moleman, long time.
Did you and your friend have opportunity to observe the interior of the building?
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Different "mole" man Not me. And no, we didn't go inside. Didn't climb the fence. Only thing we did was examine a large metal grate on the ground which led to a chamber with the water main to the building. I had hopes it would be a tunnel into the building, and it looked promising at first, but turned out not to be so. Oh well.
-MoleNet94
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headphones
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Gender: Male
| | Re: old school on s massachusetts and 23'rd????? (seattle)
<Reply # 7 on 9/27/2006 12:29 AM >
| | | | I've been doing some research on this place recently. The construction company working on it is moving in all sorts of equipment - I imagine that the renovation is going to take some time, but you should probably go *soon* if you're wanting to check the place out.
[last edit 9/27/2006 3:13 AM by headphones - edited 1 times]
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