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 mayhem154
    
Location: New Orleans
Gender: Male
Hello...
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< on 10/7/2005 10:22 PM >
|  | | | Hello everybody!!! Awesome Site... I have some pics of the old General Tire Plant here in Waco that shuttered around 1986. I'm new to digital photography, so I'm not quite sure how to compress these pics down to 100kb or less to post here. Any suggestions????
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Jonsered
Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong
Gender: Male
Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........
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<Reply # 1 on 10/7/2005 10:30 PM >
| | | | Your computer should have some sort of photo processing program on it. With most of them, you can change the size of the pic in "image size", but on some others, you don't get the opportunity until you hit "save" or "save as". I want to see the pics. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you have problems downsizing them.
I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.
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mayhem154
Location: New Orleans
Gender: Male
Hello...
| | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 2 on 10/7/2005 11:04 PM >
| | | | Thanks for the help Jonsered. A little history on this place.... Built in 1944, closed in 1986. General Tire used as a warehouse until about 1990. Wal Mart still uses a small portion of the warehouse at the very back of the campus. This building encompasses over 2,000,000 sf under one roof. Had its own water supply and electrical grid, warehouse has gates for 20 railcars outside and 15 inside. There seem to be many ways to gain entry into this bldg, but my knees will not allow me to. If anyone wants site location, please let me know. I would love to see the inside of this behemoth. I have more pics available if anyone is interested.
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SilentSearch
Location: Cowtown
Gender: Male
My rebellion against the santa cursor! HoHoHo
| | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 3 on 10/7/2005 11:38 PM >
| | | | Great pix! Looks like a fantastic place to check out from the inside.
SS
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Noah Vale
Location: Portland, Or
It's nobler to never get paid, than to bank on shit and dismay
| | |  | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 4 on 10/8/2005 12:53 AM >
| | | | Sweet. I saw this place this summer and wanted to look at it, but the 'rents weren't down for stopping.
Rev, this is that place I was telling you about.
"Dallas is a magnificent and wide open city, and I'm deeply envious of any urban explorers who have the good fortune to live there." -Ninj. |
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Dokk
Location: Lewisville, Texas
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 5 on 10/8/2005 12:54 AM >
|  | | | Posted by SilentSearch
Great pix! Looks like a fantastic place to check out from the inside.
SS
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Does look like fun, doesn't it?
"If I'm gonna get blamed for it, I might as well do it!" |
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Raticus
 
Moderator
Location: Tyler
Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 6 on 10/9/2005 5:25 PM >
| | | | Just one tip you may already know about on compressing the pics... always make a copy of your originals and keep it separate. Once you compress those pics, or alter and save them, unless you've made a copy, your originals are forever gone. I always put my originals on a CD and then compress the ones on the hard drive, saves space on the drive as well.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something. |
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mayhem154
Location: New Orleans
Gender: Male
Hello...
| | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 7 on 10/9/2005 11:42 PM >
| | | | Thanks for the tip... Here's a few more pics of the place...
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Explorer Zero
| | | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 8 on 10/9/2005 11:46 PM >
| | | | any inside shots?
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mayhem154
Location: New Orleans
Gender: Male
Hello...
| | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 9 on 10/10/2005 12:04 AM >
| | | | No, I'm a little nervous to go in by myself. Not a great part of town, and my knee is shot, so I can't run if I need to. If anyone wants to go, I would be happy to provide lookout service......
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Explorer Zero
| | | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 10 on 10/10/2005 4:25 AM >
| | | | Posted by mayhem154
No, I'm a little nervous to go in by myself. Not a great part of town, and my knee is shot, so I can't run if I need to. If anyone wants to go, I would be happy to provide lookout service......
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I understand, I have no cartilage in one knee and arthritis in the other! Waco has to have some good spots maybe I'll get down there soon.
[last edit 10/10/2005 5:52 PM by Explorer Zero - edited 1 times]
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
| | | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 11 on 10/10/2005 2:48 PM >
| | | | Ha! I knew there was something worth exploring in Waco. I don't remember you mentioning this place Noah. I am all for checking it out though. Especially since it's not really that far away. I still need to get up to Dallas again soon though. I'll be sure to mark this one for future exploration.
Tetanus for Breakfast!
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powerpants
| | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 12 on 10/17/2005 9:41 PM >
|  | | | Hey....i'm a pseudo-lurker....i posted here a few times a couple of years ago under the handle snake23. Anyway, I've explored that place a few times (even climbed the water tower!) and it's a really interesting, photogenic place. Tons of crazy additions, arcane machines, old engineering workrooms, there's even a creepy old medical office with a creepy old examination chair/table in it.
Are you a baylor kid too? We should meet up sometime. Send me a PM and we can hookup on facebook haha. Also, if anybody from around here wants to take an expedition, i'd be more than willing to take people out there.....
I've been UE'ing for about 5 years now, but I have trouble finding people around here who enjoy the UE as I do. (:
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seany
Location: Santa Clara, California, USA
Gender: Male
| |  |  | | | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 13 on 11/6/2005 2:08 AM >
| | | | well... i'm not from "around here" but i will be around on ... the 20th? i think. I would totally hit this up with you guys. I'll keep an eye on this, or send me a PM or something and we can hook up when i pass through.
Seany
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powerpants
| | Re: Newbie From Waco
<Reply # 14 on 1/18/2006 12:15 AM >
| | | | wow, i totally forgot to check back on this post....is anybody still interested in going? i'm down whenever...
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