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 bonnie&clyde
     
Location: 510 & 415
Cleverly disguised as responsible adults
 |  | Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
< on 9/22/2013 9:44 AM >
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*Sigh* Memories....
I used to love going to this place as a teen.
I'd rock the hell outta those batting cages and I even got maced there once by security! (imagine, this was BEFORE pepper spray  )
I feel bad for all the local kids, even though it was a little run down it was lotsa fun and the management was really cool.
I applied for a management position there a few years back and the guy that interviewed me gave me tons of tokens and free golfing/racing passes. Clyde and I spent that whole day having a blast....but it's a good thing we didn't hit the snackbar....cuz on this particular trip it was infested with cockroaches
So after 35 years of providing good, clean (roaches aside), family fun to tons of kids, this place went belly-up. The property owners (next door) raised the rent and the lease wasn't renewed so the story goes 
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The question is not when are we gonna stop, It's who's gonna stop us?
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Austtie
Location: Ventura County
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 1 on 9/22/2013 5:22 PM >
| | | | Great Job! The write-up made me laugh, you guys are too funny!
All the tacky colors and carpets, strange murals and machines remind me of my childhood. There's a place near me that looks exactly like this (just less ravaged).
Also, the Michael Jackson racing licence is awesome yet slightly creepy...
https://www.flickr...otos/97773368@N06/
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RescueMe1060
 
Location: San Francisco
Gender: Male
Radioactivity, its in the air for you & me
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<Reply # 2 on 9/22/2013 5:53 PM >
| | | | been meaning to get over to this place. nice writeup, the skee ball shot is sad, those were a lot of fun. my fav is the jurassic park flic looks like they still left a ton of stuff behind. I'm not down for the kitchen w/ roaches, many years ago my buddy worked there and would give me free pretzels and slurpees.
http://www.flickr....rescueme1060/sets/
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Abby Normal
Location: Las Vegas
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 3 on 9/23/2013 1:15 AM >
| | | | I remember taking my kids to the one here in Vegas. A few birthday parties there too. Like you say, sad that they seem to go the way of the dinosaur. Just the bones as a reminder of what they once were. Time invariable moves on.
Abby Normal
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan |
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boosted302
Location: San Jose CA
Gender: Male
www.divinedespai r.dot com
| | | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 4 on 9/23/2013 5:00 AM >
| | | | Decreptitude and I scouted this spot out a couple weeks back, then the whole South Bay Crew +1 hit it after the Bunker BBQ. I remember coming here as a kid, getting your own drivers license was awesome.
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ZombieMeat
Location: San Jose, CA
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 5 on 9/23/2013 5:03 AM >
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bonnie&clyde
Location: 510 & 415
Cleverly disguised as responsible adults
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<Reply # 6 on 9/23/2013 7:36 AM >
| | | | Posted by boosted302
Decreptitude and I scouted this spot out a couple weeks back, then the whole South Bay Crew +1 hit it after the Bunker BBQ. I remember coming here as a kid, getting your own drivers license was awesome.
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Great pics! (both sets)
You didn't remove our stickers again did you? 
♥ Bonnie
The question is not when are we gonna stop, It's who's gonna stop us?
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seedy
Location: Triad, North Carolina
Gender: Male
Won't eat you.
| | | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 7 on 9/23/2013 2:56 PM >
| | | | Nice pics Boosted.. Sorry i couldn't make it....it was a long day.
Architecture, nature, alcohol....
Space travel, Rock n Roll. |
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denvereen
Location: Denver
Gender: Male
| | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 8 on 9/24/2013 1:49 AM >
| | | | it is just a hunch....but I think sex has been had there.
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TRUE
Location: Nor-Cal
Gender: Male
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be..."
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<Reply # 9 on 9/24/2013 2:40 AM >
| | | | We don't deface property like SOME people. Photoshop is a really handy little tool for getting rid of those "things" you don't want showing up in your shots.
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spacetimecurvature
Location: San Francisco
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 10 on 9/24/2013 9:43 PM >
| | | | Boosted, I really like image 2, the shadows and net combination is great.
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xperiment
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Location: South Bay
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 11 on 9/24/2013 10:09 PM >
| | | | Great sets TRUE, ZombieMeat, and boosted302! super tacky carpet turned over miniature golf houses and a somewhat in tacked arcade.
Call 1800 expect no imitations Xperimenting one world one nation |
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Yuichi Kanai
Location: Oakland, CA
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 12 on 9/25/2013 1:29 AM >
|  | | | Great, everyone. Great. I made it out there and met and got "stopped" by the night crew, whose advice was "go for it - don't get lost". I took a lap on one of the tracks; takes a while on foot. L8's
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siper
Location: SF, CA
Gender: Male
"His hand upon her breast, he knew today meant death."
| | | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 13 on 9/25/2013 1:52 AM >
| | | | Posted by TRUE
We don't deface property like SOME people. Photoshop is a really handy little tool for getting rid of those "things" you don't want showing up in your shots.
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What was defaced?
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TRUE
Location: Nor-Cal
Gender: Male
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be..."
| | | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 14 on 9/25/2013 2:21 AM >
| | | | Posted by siper
What was defaced?
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Almost every abandonment I've been in.
The Rebel Urban Explorer |
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siper
Location: SF, CA
Gender: Male
"His hand upon her breast, he knew today meant death."
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<Reply # 15 on 9/25/2013 2:45 AM >
| | | | Posted by TRUE
Almost every abandonment I've been in.
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Obviously. 
But are we talkin' chalk, spray paint, breaking shit?
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dtewsacrificial
Location: Bay Area, CA
Gender: Male
On my way out the door.
| | | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 16 on 9/25/2013 3:01 AM >
| | | | Posted by siper
What was defaced?
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A photo of mine that didn't make the cut for other reasons (my tripod wasn't high enough to keep that UWA from tilting upwards to slant the buildings on the periphery). But uploaded to establish this fact.
Look under the middle "N" in communication. The rectangular dark spot. There was a shitacular sticker there that took me 10 minutes to scrape off to reveal that it had destroyed the natural decay/sun-bleaching of the dish.
Perhaps in time it will sun-bleach to approach a not-so-fucked-with state.
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TRUE
Location: Nor-Cal
Gender: Male
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be..."
| | | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 17 on 9/25/2013 3:17 AM >
| | | | Posted by siper
Obviously.
But are we talkin' chalk, spray paint, breaking shit?
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Specifically, stickers and grease paint.
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spacetimecurvature
Location: San Francisco
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 18 on 9/25/2013 4:28 AM >
| | | | Leave only footprints. That pretty much says it all.
Nothing else. Not Nuka cola. Not Fairey. Not even sure what the last two that have to do with anything with UER. Regardless, anything left behind is trash that other folks have to deal with. Let's keep locations the way we left them.
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bonnie&clyde
Location: 510 & 415
Cleverly disguised as responsible adults
| | Re: Boats, Balls, Bats, Battlestar Galactica
<Reply # 19 on 9/25/2013 4:59 AM >
| | | | Posted by TRUE
We don't deface property like SOME people. Photoshop is a really handy little tool for getting rid of those "things" you don't want showing up in your shots.
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Austie,Abby....thanks
Denvereen....shhhhh!
Yuichi....glad you made the trip. Who's the night crew?
TRUE...Look, when you first became a member on here I made a conscience decision not to go exploring with you. That is my right. You are friends with a group of people that I don't explore with. So what? We might not be friends/hang out together etc but we all share 1 common interest being on this site. We don't have to like each other right? That in itself does not give you the right to say that I "deface" locations as in "ruin and destroy". Malibu Grand Prix will be demo'd within a few months. Not sure if you guys got inside but it was scrapped, full of roaches. I wouldn't call it a "historical treasure" but I still wouldn't damage/destroy any part of it.
Those who have explored with us know that we respect locations.
We have contributed/shared tons of places, added gads of stuff to the database.
If we sign our names on dry erase/chalkboards, draw a sidewalk chalk heart or put a sticker on some pole of a scrapped out/graffiti covered/half burned down/set for demo/location....CMON! I wouldn't dream of ruining something with spraypaint (dunno what you meant with "greasepaint".....that is something clowns paint on their faces so maybe YOU know something about that  )
As for destroying ANYTHING just the fact we exposed Railguy should prove that we are AGAINST any kind of vandalism....and he was our FRIEND at one point!
We don't even B&E and I know for a FACT some people on here have done that.
We been playing golf at this location since it closed in August and have watched it slowly get more and more trashed, beer bottles, broken glass, the houses getting toppled/cars disappearing. It's sad because if you have a connection to certain places (in this case I went there a lot as a kid) it feels more "personal". Even though I don't care for your group of pals I was actually kinda stoked that more people got to see it before it was gone
Dtewsacrificial....Obey stickers are universal, ours are the cheap ones that peel right off....ask Boosted
The question is not when are we gonna stop, It's who's gonna stop us?
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