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 Atno000
Location: That city with the large hospital...
Gender: Male
We are in a state of Flux
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< on 8/12/2008 4:39 PM >
|  | | | Did anybody ever head to this place? It's in Alaska, but the pictures on the site where I got these weren't too great. It's called the Buckner Building (I think)
I got these pictures from abandonedbutnotforgotten.com, if anyone was wondering...
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G to the Race
   
Hi!
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<Reply # 1 on 8/12/2008 4:42 PM >
| | | | I recall reading about that spot but I don't know if it was here or not. For some reason the fact that people lived in it sticks out--I may be imagining all of this but I recall a community living in an abandoned military "city" in Alaska. If you have access to it, check the very last issue of Infiltration, Military Leftovers. Of course it could be a completely different spot and I've wasted your time, but it looks familiar.
You betcha |
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AKphill
  
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Gender: Male
Exploring the 49th state.
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<Reply # 2 on 8/12/2008 6:36 PM >
| | | | I've been to Buckner twice already and hoping to go back this weekend with eidolon. The "city under one roof" used to house army personnel until they left in the mid '60s. It has a theater, bowling alley, jail, dining hall, hundreds of rooms, a hospital, pedestrian/steam tunnels, and much more.
More pics here... http://www.uer.ca/...d=1&threadid=57742
and here http://www.uer.ca/...d=1&threadid=56459
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eidolon
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
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<Reply # 3 on 8/12/2008 8:49 PM >
| | | | I think pretty much everyone ends up touring the place at least once. It's extremely easy to access, and takes a few hours to explore fully. It's been very heavily vandalized, but there's still a lot to be seen. The sheer scale of the place means that even decades later, there's still plenty of stuff the local kids haven't managed to break or burn.
The theater and elevator machine rooms are my favorite parts of it, but every time I go I end up finding something I hadn't noticed before. Last trip it was the hospital area, where there's a big piece of machinery of some sort, could be part of an x-ray I think, and a big set of built in cabinets in one of the offices.
I didn't realize what they were the first few times I went through, but on two of the residential floors there are several stacks of boxes of elevator parts (tracks and rollers for the doors, position sensors, etc). I'm kind of curious if they're from a post-earthquake repair effort, or a later attempt at restoring the building which was aborted.
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
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<Reply # 4 on 8/14/2008 10:24 PM >
| | | | I don't remember seeing the elevator parts, and I covered pretty much the entire building (camped overnight and took two days to explore it, it's THAT big!). They could be from one of the many redevelopment attempts, the place keeps changing hands between developers and speculators. At various times it's been slated to be a prison, luxury resort, storage warehouse, office complex, etc.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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eidolon
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
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<Reply # 5 on 8/14/2008 11:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by Freak
I don't remember seeing the elevator parts, and I covered pretty much the entire building (camped overnight and took two days to explore it, it's THAT big!). They could be from one of the many redevelopment attempts, the place keeps changing hands between developers and speculators. At various times it's been slated to be a prison, luxury resort, storage warehouse, office complex, etc.
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I didn't either for the first few times I went there. I thought they were bed frames for a long time, then I picked up a few of the smaller pieces and looked at the writing on the boxes on my most recent trip.
There's three or four rooms with rotted boxes full of long metal parts with wheels (door tracks) and some smaller bits scattered around that are either heavy duty sensor switches, or some kind of shock absorber type thing. Also in a couple of the penthouses there are boxes of relay packs, and what I think are really big resistors.
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headphones
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 6 on 8/16/2008 8:29 PM >
| | | | The exterior of that building is great. Looks like some of the Stalin-era stuff over in Russia.
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eidolon
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
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<Reply # 7 on 8/17/2008 5:43 AM >
| | | | Posted by headphones
The exterior of that building is great. Looks like some of the Stalin-era stuff over in Russia.
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There's a lot of that in Alaska... Ever see the UAF campus? 
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galax
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Gender: Male
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
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<Reply # 8 on 9/6/2008 4:04 PM >
|  | | | yeah, ive been wanting to go there so bad, seen the outside plenty of times, just havent got the chance to explore it yet....
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"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." |
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MidnightRaven
Location: Montreal / Eastern Townships
Gender: Female
Urbain Artist
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<Reply # 9 on 9/6/2008 4:10 PM >
| | | | WOW that place is HUGE ....... theater, hospital wing residential area ?? what is it or rather was it ?
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aaronni
Location: South Puget Sound
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<Reply # 10 on 9/7/2008 12:00 AM >
| | | | Posted by G to the Race
I may be imagining all of this but I recall a community living in an abandoned military "city" in Alaska. If you have access to it, check the very last issue of Infiltration, Military Leftovers.
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Posted by AKphill
The "city under one roof" used to house army personnel until they left in the mid '60s.
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Posted by MidnightRaven
WOW that place is HUGE ....... theater, hospital wing residential area ?? what is it or rather was it ?
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Nobody knows MR, we're still trying to figure out what it was... 
never know until you go |
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AKphill
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Gender: Male
Exploring the 49th state.
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<Reply # 11 on 9/7/2008 6:49 AM >
| | | | It did house Army troops. Most info about Buckner will tell you that.
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
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<Reply # 12 on 9/10/2008 1:06 PM >
| | | | Some History:
Whittier (the town where this is) was a military port from 1943 to 1969. The Buckner Building was constructed in 1953 as part of a Cold War military buildup in Alaska. Originally, there were intended to be 8-10 massive self-contained barracks, each with indoor entertainment facilities and connected by tunnels to avoid the harsh winters (they can get 9ft of snow there). The plan only went as far as the Buckner building and the Hodge building.
The town of Whittier was created during WWII as a secret backup port on the Alaska Railroad. It was intended to get ship cargo onto the railroad in case the main port at Seward was attacked. Access is via a 3-mile long rail tunnel and a rail spur. There is very little flat land in Whittier, and most of it is taken up by rail yard and port facilities. 90% of the population lives in the old Hodge barracks (now Begich Tower). It's fairly self-contained as well, they've shoehorned a restaurant, stores, post office, police station, gym, and other things into old apartments. There's one other small 60's style apartment building, but I don't think there are any private houses. Part of the population lived in the Buckner before it was damaged during the 1964 earthquake. I hear it's really depressing to live there, and there are supposedly some nutcases in Begich Tower who haven't left the building for 10 years. The Hodge could be interesting to explore, but when I was there it had more cameras than a bank.
Whittier loves tunnels. There's the rail tunnel, recently converted to allow cars to drive through between scheduled trains. There's the secret tunnel parallel to the rail tunnel, which housed gas lines and a small rail line of its own. There's the steam tunnel from Buckner to the old power plant, and lots of wierd mini-tunnels in the sub-basements. There's tunnels between Hodge, the school, the new power plant, and maybe others. There are some largeish drains and a pedestrian tunnel under the rail yard. There's supposedly a tunnel between Buckner and Hodge, but we did our best and couldn't find a shred of evidence for it.
Wow, the Wikipedia article for Buckner is the worst I've ever seen, someone with some free time should go fix that
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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AKphill
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Gender: Male
Exploring the 49th state.
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<Reply # 13 on 12/10/2008 6:41 AM >
| | | | It's been fixed...kinda, although I don't remember the basements being that extensive.
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