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1 2 3   UER Forum > Archived US: Mid-Atlantic > Old King Coal (Viewed 3830 times) JC  Location: Augusta Georgia Gender: Male Keying up @ KJ4ZNR  |  |  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 20 on 3/22/2009 6:04 AM >   Dooood! you tried to pick it up!!! Not so cool. JC Keying up at KJ4ZNR <a href="http://www.r...e/southernshutter?> Coley  Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Female We are Americans, nothing if not colonizers, and explorers. We can be retrosplorers! -on Euro UE  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 21 on 3/22/2009 3:30 PM >   As many times as I've been there, how have I not seen this mercury? Show me the next time we go. I had no idea your dad was on here either. Way cool. I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. -Susan Sontag DJ Craig  Moderator Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Male Break the Silence  |  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 22 on 3/22/2009 4:37 PM >   Posted by the_only_ole As many times as I've been there, how have I not seen this mercury? Show me the next time we go. I had no idea your dad was on here either. Way cool. I didn't know my dad was on here either! lol I was about to PM him and be like "how did you know my mom's name??" The mercury is right at the end of the room with all the huge steam pipes, right near the door that leads into the turbine room. Posted by JC Dooood! you tried to pick it up!!! Not so cool. I can't resist shiny objects. We had a conversation afterwards about what a shame it is that mercury is poisonous. Wouldn't it be awesome if they had mercury swimming pools?! "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess bouncewiggle  Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Female  |  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 23 on 3/23/2009 5:14 PM >   Awesome shots, Edwin. They have a very old feel to them that I love. Great story and sweet pics, Craig. Pass my compliments on to your mom. =) "bouncewiggle, now more entertaining than Jell-O" Katetron  Location: Middlesex New Jersey Gender: Female melting your brains  |  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 24 on 3/31/2009 9:20 PM >   I like picture 5! too many people not enuff swet aGlock4u  Location: North Carolina Gender: Male Urbexing North Carolina  |  |  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 25 on 4/1/2009 11:38 AM >   I missed the mercury on my trip... anyone take a picture of it?? Jake Doberlady  Location: North Georgia Gender: Female  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 26 on 4/3/2009 6:00 PM >   I love how the story and photos were done. Thanks for a great gallery. ~The People should not be afraid of their government, the Government should be afraid of the people!~ evan-e-cent  Gender: Male  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 27 on 5/19/2009 5:55 AM >   Security guards have secured the fence so its not so easy to get into now. Thats sad. anathema  Gender: Female  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 28 on 5/19/2009 2:01 PM >   I love it! Family Urbexing! Awesome! "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." ~~Steve Jobs DJ Craig  Moderator Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Male Break the Silence  |  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 29 on 5/21/2009 3:22 AM >   Posted by evan-e-cent Security guards have secured the fence so its not so easy to get into now. Thats sad. It's totally still doable now though! Just not somewhere I'd want to take my parents anymore. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess fiftyone_eggs  Location: jerzey Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 30 on 5/21/2009 1:58 PM >   that's a sweet location and you're a good son. Sepia  Location: Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia. Gender: Male  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 31 on 6/7/2009 11:46 PM >   That is one cool place! Glad to see a whole family out & urbexing. Unfortunately my mother would never do such a thing & my kids are still a tad little to go on the more adventurous stuff (although, they are good for finding & pointing out the spiders in webs that I am just about to walk through Couple of years, & I hope to have the whole Sepia clan out & about with me. How sweet it will be to experience our first trespassing charge as a family Oh Noes!!! IT'S ANOTHER NOOB!!! DJ Craig  Moderator Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Male Break the Silence  |  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 32 on 7/8/2009 1:20 AM >   This building will be demolished soon. There is already a crew working there. I'm not completely sure if it will make it to MAMU. If anyone wants to see it one last time send me a PM and I'll take anyone who wants to go. Apparently there was an article about it in the Elizabethton Star. I haven't been able to find it. If anyone can find a copy of that article, let me know! "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess evan-e-cent  Gender: Male  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 33 on 7/9/2009 2:08 AM >   Craig has been exploring Old King Coal today with friends from Charlotte. He spoke to a demolition crew and was told that it will be a year before the power station is demolished. He watched as they removed the 7 smoke stacks from the top of the building with a crane and oxyacetylene torches. But the rest of the building will remain intact and available to explorers for a long time to come. It is also only one part of two huge industrial complexes and there are many other interesting sites here to explore. evan-e-cent  Gender: Male  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 34 on 7/27/2009 8:06 AM >   Take another look at the original article. I lost the original folder of photos when my server crashed so I went through my original collection and made another set. I HAVE POSTED SOME NEW PHOTOS FOR MAMU. IT IS STILL THERE IN ALL ITS GLORY I put a larger set of photos on this web site: http://www.djtrici...more_Old_King_Coal [last edit 7/27/2009 3:25 PM by evan-e-cent - edited 8 times] DJ Craig  Moderator Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Male Break the Silence  |  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 35 on 7/28/2009 11:49 PM >   For my birthday a few days ago, my good non-UER explorer friend Mikaela sent me this: It's a painting of the roof of this building. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess LizBellum  Gender: Female Be really excellent at everything!  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 36 on 7/29/2009 1:22 AM >   Aw, I didn't see this thread when it was created but it made me smile. Cheers, guys. <3 Love that painting. flickrgrrrrl :: boyfuckingracer aurelie  Location: pacific northwest Gender: Female high tech:: low life.  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 37 on 7/29/2009 9:11 PM >   Here they are taking the last smokestack off of the roof. definitely still a MAMU location though. reckless thoughts abide; anachronistic and impulsive. loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing. mascarah  Location: Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania Gender: Female  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 38 on 10/2/2009 5:59 PM >   made my second trip back to old king coal. this time, in the daylight hours, so my photos are much more pleasing. this place is beautiful. too bad it will soon be gone. tis life. they scare you into believing that mercury will kill you on contact. do not be afraid children. technically i could eat this and still be just fine. now whether you would want to handle it or eat it over a long period of time, that's your decision. thick layers of coal dust mixed with the recent rain caused some spots to be a black slimy mess. a beautiful lonely chair. i do not agree with city planners that something such as this should be destroyed. lonely chairs, paint peels, unsafe flooring, broken glass. a legend in a ue photographers mind. coal dust coats everything in blue, black and grey. EVERYTHING. oh. what's behind closed doors? (ooo. look what anapplesnail taught me halfway through my post. clickable photos so i'm easier to track down by the wrong people. eee.) kingdom of the catwalks. it's like the definition of deathtrap. pay no attention to the girl in front of the camera. bits-n-pieces of a building soon to be remembered only in photographs. Life and death are only temporary but freedom goes on forever. Find me on: Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr. AnAppleSnail  Location: Charlotte, NC Gender: Male ALL the flashlights!  |  |  |  Re: Old King Coal <Reply # 39 on 10/2/2009 6:25 PM >   Yay thread necromancy! Felt so small after khazakstan. Stress fracture Testing kit Logs Achievement Unlocked UER Forum > Archived US: Mid-Atlantic > Old King Coal (Viewed 3830 times)  1 2 3   All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. 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