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 NIKOKAPS
Location: Chicago Northside
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Boiler room basement time capsule
< on 4/20/2012 4:29 PM >
|  | | | Whats up urban explorers. After introducing myself in the "New Member? Introduce yourself here!" thread I'm posting my first thread here on an old boiler room basement in a building I have access to in Evanston, north of Chicago. So who said UE doesn't qualify if you have granted access to a place?
So anyway after doing some research I found out this building was built in 1926 as a typical unreinforced masonry building with solid wood trusses which is really quite beautiful. Rumor has it that this building use to be an old Ferrari auto body shop, but now it's a furniture store. Since a lot of wood was used for the structure of the building, it gets pretty humid inside which brings me to the topic of the basement.
The basement is one of the most musty, humid and wet indoor environments I had ever witnessed. It looks like something that came out of the film "Nightmare on Elm Street". The ceiling is full of liquid water droplets formed from rising humidity. Water seems to also creep through the walls. And there are some real strange spider cocoons of sorts which look like huge white spiders, something I have never seen before (it's things like this that make UE so interesting). Finally the basement itself has boiler equipment from the beginning of the twentieth century that has already started oxidizing many years ago from the looks of it.
Please discuss here if anyone else has been in basement environments like this that have seen so many years of neglect.
[last edit 4/20/2012 7:59 PM by NIKOKAPS - edited 1 times]
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tick
 
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: Boiler room basement time capsule
<Reply # 1 on 4/20/2012 7:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by nanoNEXES
And there are some real strangest spider cocoons of sorts which look like huge white spiders
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I've seen similar things in caves - I think that's dead spiders covered in a white mold (or fungus?).
Welcome!
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NIKOKAPS
Location: Chicago Northside
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Boiler room basement time capsule
<Reply # 2 on 4/20/2012 8:52 PM >
| | | | Thanks for the welcome tick!
Upon seeing those spider cocoons I was pretty excited. To see such a thing that we don't come across very often was quite a surprise.
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Asher0719
 
Location: MSP
Gender: Female
The World Abandoned
| | Re: Boiler room basement time capsule
<Reply # 3 on 4/21/2012 1:56 AM >
| | | | Wow...those spiders... That place looks pretty cool.
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Eschaton
   
Location: Western NC
Gender: Male
Entry: Eschaton (es-kuh-tawn) noun | end of time, climax of history | Etymology: Greek for 'last'
| | | Re: Boiler room basement time capsule
<Reply # 4 on 7/25/2012 12:15 AM >
| | | | I thought this thread was going to be about starting a UE time capsule in an abandoned basement!
Ars Gratia Adventuris |
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LaRo212
Gender: Female
| | Re: Boiler room basement time capsule
<Reply # 5 on 7/28/2012 12:09 AM >
| | | | Ugh, those white spiders...whatever they are...they are ALL over the back half of my basement, I think more in the winter, but honestly I am not sure, I am so used to them (lived here about 12 years now.) Someone said they were hibernating. I don't know too much about spiders and never really cared, so I don't know if that has any truth at all.
Cool pics though! My first thread had them posted the same way, where you hover over them to see them better. Someone suggested to me that I use Flickr and use the codes they give, that way you just scroll through and see them all in a more easily viewable size  Of course, that's entirely up to you though.
I look forward to your next set. Welcome to UER!
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DawnPatrol
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Boiler room basement time capsule
<Reply # 6 on 7/28/2012 3:01 AM >
| | | | You're not too far from me. Cool pictures! I've seen spiders like that in other peoples' pictures, never in person though (thank god).
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subtilis
Location: Providence, RI
Gender: Male
UER's Resident Mycologist
| | Re: Boiler room basement time capsule
<Reply # 7 on 9/9/2012 8:24 AM >
| | | | The spiders are covered in Nomuraea atypicola, an entomopathogenic fungus. So the mold killed the spiders. Its some zaney shit. any and all mycology related questions are welcome at the inbox of subtilis.
also, love the boiler room. nice shots, cool place
It's not the smokes makin' me sick, It's standing out in the cold to smoke em' |
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Tenebrae
Location: The Wild West
Life's short; eat dessert first.
| | Re: Boiler room basement time capsule
<Reply # 8 on 9/9/2012 1:36 PM >
| | | | Posted by NIKOKAPS
Please discuss here if anyone else has been in basement environments like this that have seen so many years of neglect.
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I've seen a similar-looking basement boiler room in my area (a 19th or 20th Italian Renaissance Revival, 1921). Since my region is drier, the state of decay was less pronounced (less rusty).
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Mochtao
| | Re: Boiler room basement time capsule
<Reply # 9 on 9/9/2012 3:10 PM >
|  | | | I saw a pretty extensive collection of those white mold-ridden dead spiders in a storm drain in Bloomington, IN that my friend and I nicknamed "Bear's Colon".
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