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denvereen
  
location:
Denver
Gender: Male
 |  | New To Town, intro.
< on 1/26/2011 3:45 AM >
|  | | | Hi Everyone.
I've seen that others don't get roasted for just doing an Intro,so I thought I'd say hello. I grew up here but have spent major chunks of adult life outside the area. I just returned a few days ago, and am currently in the North Western "boonies" towards Boulder, but will most likely be located near downtown, maybe by next week. (I can't believe the hoops you have to jump to get a place here now).
I have pretty long exploring experience, but none here, to speak of.
I practiced little league baseball at the cute little building you all call
"the Pecos Street School", many years ago. I used to have my little "haunted
garage" to bring others to smoke pot etc, in just up the street from there.
It's been demolished for decades now. I forget what the BIG active white skyscraper is called, maybe Republic Plaza? A friend and I just barged right
in when it was under construction and we smoked on a high floor with no windows
installed yet. I just Might have a print pic of that. I also did the "Flour Mill" lofts when it was an outrageous eyesore that you could actually see from the old stadium.
I am on a borrowed computer, and will have a rehabbed one of my own in a week or
two. So I can't really do pics till then.
Anyway. I thought I would get myself into the time clock here.
The few days since I have been back have been clogged with apt. and job hunting
but I certainly have mixed in a little scouting. Walked all around the East side of Gates, and I have seen some interesting things scattered around especially in Five Points. Hope to get some local places done and shown when time and logistics allow, and then maybe run into some of you all. This 4
corners section really seems polite and drama free.
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Quarantine
location:
Denver
Gender: Female
retired former old-school UE'er
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 1 on 1/26/2011 8:10 AM >
| | | | Welcome back! Neat to hear from someone who was exploring here back in the day. I'd love to see photos of the Flour Mill before the yuppies gentrified the area!
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denvereen
location:
Denver
Gender: Male
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 2 on 1/26/2011 4:02 PM >
| | | | If I am lucky I might have some of the construction climb on the skyscraper.
I am pretty sure I never had any of the silos. It was amazing how bleak and awful it was down there. And everywhere that's called LODO was total big city
blight. It could have stood in for Chicago or NY in a movie easily.
Thanks for your comment. I am kinda fearful of blathering on about old days
I can't "prove." Even as I drive around to get established here I am just
itching to paint a new exploring picture. I have been gone so long, it's all
new, and yet, I have the convenience of generally knowing how to get around.
I do see that in one respect explorers in Denver might have it a little harder
than in some other spots. I just don't think you get much of the complete
doors blown off easy access places that exist in more decaying regions.
But where there is a will there is a way.
Oh. Might as well throw in one more place I went to "in the day". I have
seen some Denver explorers have been to a thing called the RIDGE HOME.
Well, I never explored it but when I was in Junior High a teacher made me and
all my friends come with her on a Saturday to visit the retarded kids. It
seems to me that I have seen urbex reports ruminating on the ill treatment there.
I can say for sure the place was an absolute hell hole. The kids were laying
on blankets on the floor under bright lights.
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imprezawrxsti
    
location:
Portland, OR
Gender: Male
nothing is true; everything is permitted
| |  | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 3 on 1/27/2011 8:02 PM >
| | | | Posted by denvereen
If I am lucky I might have some of the construction climb on the skyscraper.
I am pretty sure I never had any of the silos. It was amazing how bleak and awful it was down there. And everywhere that's called LODO was total big city
blight. It could have stood in for Chicago or NY in a movie easily.
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yeah, lodo was a pit back in the day. i remember when they were tearing down the big post office annex there...never got a chance to get inside that one.
that bit about republic plaza is pretty sweet. that is the tallest building in denver (though the top of the cash register building is taller due to its being on a hill), and it must have been pretty cool during construction.
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denvereen
location:
Denver
Gender: Male
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 4 on 1/28/2011 2:32 PM >
| | | | I tried to use a friends computer to put up a few pics last night but something went wrong, and I can't do it on the one I am using now, as the relative owner would freak out. But in general chat, now that the "cash register" bldg is brought up, I lived on 17th and Washington the first winter that building was operating. One winter morning I couldn't walk past it due to massive police presence. It turns out the (Canadian)firm that built it didn't foresee that ice would slide down the slope. Huge chunks were crashing in the street.
They had to spend millions of dollars putting in some sort of heating system
under that glass on top to keep ice from forming.
But back to Urbex. I am still in the same situation as a few days ago except that my apartment deal is now assured to go thru, and I will be near downtown
in a few days, but then I may not have any computer access at all for a few days too. I wanted to post some exteriors I took the other day of a potential target, but can't. So I'll just ask: Has anyone been in anything called the
"Titsworth." I almost have to get in there for the name alone, (carved in stone in the 1910's). But it also looks like it might be truly interesting.
I'd probably have done it by now if I were more settled. Even most of my flashlights are in boxes in a crawlspace.
My fear now is not to Bore with Lore, but my enthusiasm is rising even while I still can't really participate due to job and apartment time hogging, and computer thing.
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Dora
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 5 on 1/28/2011 3:27 PM >
| | | | So I'll just ask: Has anyone been in anything called the
"Titsworth." |
1.
This Titsworth? ;)
"It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray."
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denvereen
location:
Denver
Gender: Male
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 6 on 1/28/2011 4:33 PM >
| | | | Thats the one. I don't know why I get such a kick out of that.
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Retro_Chick
location:
Denver-ish
Gender: Female
Serial Trespasser
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 7 on 1/31/2011 4:56 AM >
| | | | OMG DORA YOU ARE FREAKING AMAZING! 
But anyways WELCOME denvereen!!!!
Don't you worry about "boring" us with history... as Dora can attest to, I tend to research the crap outta places! I love to know the history of buildings I explore and even buildings I don't explore! Denver is an interesting place and it's very cool to hear stories of days gone by!
I really can't wait to see some of your old photos! 
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
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Luna
location:
Hollywood, CA
Gender: Female
I am the terror that faps in the night
| | | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 8 on 2/2/2011 12:26 AM >
| | | | Posted by Dora
1.
This Titsworth? ;)
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...Nice. Next time I'm staying at a hotel, I'm registering as Lady Von Titsworth. Sounds regal.
Casual mysterious. |
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Orogeny
location:
39 degrees 44 minutes N, 104 degrees 59 minutes W
Raping people in drains since the summer of '07...
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 9 on 2/2/2011 3:39 AM >
|  | | | i've been in titsworth, but i don't know if i have any pics. the floors were quite sketchy from what i remember, but it's an interesting place.
Subduction leads to orogeny. Duh. |
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denvereen
location:
Denver
Gender: Male
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 10 on 2/2/2011 6:40 PM >
| | | | "Lady Von Titsworth" Haaaaaa.
Thanks for all the comments everyone. I am in complete(ish) computer blackout now that I moved to my own place downtown. I am back up at a relatives to log in for a minute today, and tomorrow the Denver libraries reopen after a hiatus for a week so that may help.
Mind you when we speak of old pictures that I have been exploring elsewhere for years. Real exploring etc. The Denver experiences I speak of were just youthful pre-internet wanderings. I know somewhere I have a pic of a train rolling by my "haunted garage" on Pecos. Oh, and about that Pecos Street School, I assume it's ok to call it by it's real name which was Utah Junction, since it is utterly rehabbed and looks like it will be occupied soon. My old story about that is that I used to practice little league there, and I never much cared for sports so I would waddle off to the woods that used to be right behind it and pretend to be peeing for long stretches of time. I am certain there used to be a little creek right behind there. That must have been diverted somewhere down the line in Denver's explosive growth.
In new and exciting news, although I am prolly too new here to expect much input on this, but I have been continually keeping an eye on that place next to Rose which we prolly should not mention by name. Seems a little risky, but I also see possible ways, at least to some portions of it. I did notice cops hovering in 7/11 lot staring at it the other nite. But I have not seen any
regular sec. guards. I do see various repairs where others must have gone in. etc etc.
It was so frustrating to not be able to use my friends computer to do some photos. I don't know why his set up wouldn't recognize my soundcard thru his camera. Perhaps because there are a few little vids on it. I dunno. If I don't get the free rehabbed computer I am waiting on soon, I am going to by one of those 248 dollar ones from Walmart.
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denvereen
location:
Denver
Gender: Male
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 11 on 2/10/2011 7:36 PM >
| | | | Jumping thru all sorts of hoops of failure, here are a few shots of old prints. A friend of mine (who also has joined here) took these and emailed them to me. The library will only let me see 3 of 9. Whatever.
It's not like they are very important anyway. But here they are to round out my Hello thread.
Here is the Haunted Garage that used to exist near 60th and Pecos:
This one is pretty obvious..climbing Red Rocks. I'm not the one in the Rush shirt.
This one is not really exploring related, (I'm having trouble finding many that are, ((from Denver that is))). But it's me in front of Wax Trax in about 1982.
The other one where I am on some parking structure, I can't help but feel that was the same day we barged into Republic Plaza. But again: whatever.
Looks like that's all I'll be able to do till I get a computer. Everything is starting to lag on and get really annoying to me. The job search is not going too well, and the traffic is murder, blah blah blah, I am getting glum now.
(Modified to put in correct image codes, I hope).
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JustSomeDude
location:
Denver, CO
I'm not very good at singing songs, but here's a try...
| |  | | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 12 on 2/21/2011 4:45 AM >
| | | | Posted by denvereenWalked all around the East side of Gates, and I have seen some interesting things scattered around especially in Five Points. Hope to get some local places done and shown when time and logistics allow, and then maybe run into some of you all. This 4
corners section really seems polite and drama free.
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Hey Denvereen --- I'm not new to Denver, but new to UER. So I thought I'd drop into the thread and say "hi."
I'm in central Five Points, and actually just a couple blocks from old Titsworth (and a few other interesting structures). If you're ever up for some d-town explorations and want some company, please feel free to drop me a line. I'd love to meet some UE folks and tag along on some sessions - if you don't mind me bringing mah camera along.
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JustSomeDude
location:
Denver, CO
I'm not very good at singing songs, but here's a try...
| | | | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 13 on 2/22/2011 2:57 AM >
| | | | Junius Flagg Brown...
http://books.googl...=onepage&q&f=false
There's some mention of Titsworth in there as well.
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denvereen
location:
Denver
Gender: Male
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 14 on 3/9/2011 10:20 PM >
| | | | DAMN. It's way different here. So much driving for so much fail. You Denverites really are intrepid. I am still kind of pussyfooting around, feeling like everything needs way more scouting than I am used to. Here are some random items to pretty much kill off this thread, mind you, I have been busy in life in general so nothing here shows any massive interest. Been nosing around is all.
1)..drove all the way out HERE, only to have Sheriff's militantly patrolling.
2) this is a dull dull desperately dull pic, but in an interesting place
3) can't even have the luck to snap the cops and workers on a driveby at Gates,
I put this in for funny value, as it blocks anything I was trying to point out.
4) meh.
5) so I shoot up to this hole where a fireman died in 2000 and scope it out:
6) and in the time it takes me to walk back to car and get stuff, some jackass decides to fix his car right by the hole. (see open car door)
7) Once in, this is my greeting:
8) abrupt right turn leads to this box and onwards:
And there you have it, as soon as it got the slightest bit hard: I quit.
HA! I'll return to it. Like I say, just poking around. At least it's one spot where you could probably pogo stick your way nude to it and not get bothered. I did get a call from my new P/T employer while down there.
And it made me realize I should take Life in general more seriously right now.
But in other moments I have been to all sorts of places that you all have done to death which are now occupied. Really wanted that metal works by the stadium to turn out, but NO..it's Elitch's HQ for hiring. Been to various schools and things too, but in a sort of daytime-scope out way, not expecting to be able to get in.
I am glad that Cavemonkey here has mutual East Coast long time explorer friends and is willing to PM with me on my stumblings and blockage here and regale me with stories of the good old days here. I also met the new guy known as "Justsomedude" and he is filled with good instincts and endless obvious scouting efforts and noncopness etc.
I have had my head in Gates, and I am sitting on a half done but epic explore, but from what I can see so far: Draining it is!
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kraig
Gender: Male
I prefer draining.
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 15 on 3/10/2011 5:18 AM >
| | | | Hey. If you're into driving to crappy places for mediocre drains you could go to Lone Tree. Check the DB. Anyways, what happened to that firefighter?
"Is that the entrance to the drain?" "Yeah" "It's right behind the police station." "Oh. Maybe we should go to a different one..." |
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denvereen
location:
Denver
Gender: Male
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 16 on 3/10/2011 6:00 AM >
| | | | Not sure what exactly happened to the firefighter. He died and it involved the flooding of the shown storm drain, but you have to pay to see the rest of the articles so I can't say he was sucked into it for sure. He was helping stranded motorists so it could be a car shifted and held him down nearby. Hard to believe a drain that devoid of water could flood to that degree but that much is obvious from the various few paragraphs I saw. It's a backbreaker for sure, but it changed it's route violently twice in the first 80 feet, and might be more interesting as it goes along. I will certainly go back more prepped for a longer haul soon. It looks like it might get more comfy as it goes along, and it's most assuredly not sloshy.
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Retro_Chick
location:
Denver-ish
Gender: Female
Serial Trespasser
| | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 18 on 3/14/2011 3:49 AM >
| | | | Is that a dead animal under the "praise the lord"?
LOL! I see a ghosted Orogeny in that third pic!
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
~Ayn Rand |
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emenhiser
location:
Colbert, GA
Gender: Male
Soli Deo Gloria
| | | Re: New To Town, intro.
<Reply # 19 on 3/14/2011 3:54 PM >
| | | | I'm late to the party, but I may have just giggled a little bit over "Titsworth". Awesome.
"Wear some golf shoes, otherwise we'll never get out of this place alive. Impossible to walk in this muck. No footing at all." -- Fear and Loathing
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