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Cfourexplore
Location: North Carolina Gender: Male Total Likes: 583 likes
Never a dull moment in Midworld.
| | | Re: Your Origin Story < Reply # 3 on 7/4/2018 2:08 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've always thought abandoned places were fascinating, exploring the history and things left behind, watching nature retake what we 'borrowed'. I also like traveling, and taking pics. Urban exploring also offers a relatively cheap outlet for all these things (assuming, of course, that one doesn't get arrested, eaten by a bear, or has to drive several hundred miles to a site). Years ago, I read a short story by Dean Koontz that took place in an abandoned town that had died due to underground mine fires. After doing research, I found out this town wasn't authorial invention...so I decided to explore it. Since then, I have really gotten into urbex, and have explored several locations. (Sooner or later I'll start posting pics here) The name of the album I use on my computer for these pics is called "Abandonment Issues", it's a pretty addictive hobby!
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| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1850 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: Your Origin Story < Reply # 4 on 7/4/2018 3:40 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I was on the set crew for the school play in middle school, and we assembled the sets in the basement of the school. The basement was fairly extensive and mostly unlit, having been originally built as a public fallout shelter designed to hold thousands of people during the Cold War. In modern times, it is used as general storage by the school district, so there was several decades worth of junk stacked down there. I would wander off when we were making the sets and explore it, though nothing came of it at the time- but it did spark an interest that was dormant for a few more years. In high school I would ride my bike downtown during the summer and poke around under bridges and among the back alleys all day. This culminated in the summer between my sophomore and junior year, with me and a friend exploring an abandoned riverside warehouse, the pictures from which I posted to UER as my first exploration. I've been exploring ever since.
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| TacoJosh
Location: Chicago, IL Gender: Male Total Likes: 38 likes
| | | | Re: Your Origin Story < Reply # 14 on 7/7/2018 4:51 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I grew up outside of Chicago. The first time I heard about something abandoned was the Dixie Square Mall. In 7th grade (2011-12), our Social Studies class did a Chicago History Fair. Students could pick what they wanted to do their project on and I picked the I&M Canal, unfortunately many other students also picked it as well. Our teacher asked many of us if we wanted to change our topics. One topic that stuck out was the Dixie Square Mall. I was confused, why would he give us a topic about some random mall I've never heard of. Halfway through the project, the name still stuck with me so I actually did some research and I found all sorts of great information on it! Too bad for me, but it was too late to switch topics so I was stuck with the Canal. But that didn't stop me from continuing research with the Dixie Square Mall, I found the Blue Brothers scene, explorations of the mall and articles about demolition. I also found a gallery on Flickr of the Brach's Candy Factory which also interested me. At some point, my abandoned research died down. Eventually I found the Proper People in 2015, and watching their videos sparked some interest in finding some abandoned places in the Chicago area. I had very little luck only finding the Damen Silos and Cook County Hospital. And in 2015, during the summer, my friend and I finally went to explore our first abandoned place, a century old farm house down the street from us, and behind it was an abandoned waste transfer station. It became our little hangout place for a while until word spread about it and the waste warehouse was trashed and some idiot closed the entrance door leaving no access inside. The house became boring because it was just a wooden house with nothing inside it and we stopped going to it. Eventually I went off to college in Chicago and I had my friends come downtown. We ventured out to the Silos which was a failed attempt, but that's what really got us started. Now I'm all over the city and I've picked up so many locations! And just a week ago, my friend and I went to Gary, Indiana and it was a great day!
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| Wheedle
Location: Northwest Georgia, USA Gender: Male Total Likes: 200 likes
| | | Re: Your Origin Story < Reply # 17 on 7/18/2018 5:10 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My dad drove a tractor-trailer, and I rode with him a lot as a kid in the 70's . He had an affinity for abandoned barns and farmhouses, and a few of the plants he delivered to had abandoned areas we would wander through while waiting to unload. We also made a fairly regular habit of wandering the old power plant at High Falls State Park ( Georgia ) when we went there to fish or camp. When I was 4 we bought an 1890's farmhouse. Then, we moved to Ft Lauderdale in the mid 80's. The group of kids I hung with were constantly riding all over the area on our bicycles, and exploring any place we could easily gain access to. We moved back to Georgia in 85, and resumed our occasional barn and farmhouse jaunts. In high school, I worked weekends and summers in a textile mill originally built in 1888. There were many parts of the mill that were unused, cluttered with old machinery, that we would explore during breaks and lunch. I've been doing it most all my life, just never new it was a 'thing' until the internet became so big. Now I plan motorcycle trips around places I'd like to see, and spend a fair bit of spare time scouring Google Earth for new places to see.
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