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 TXchemist
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< on 7/16/2006 11:23 PM >
|  | | | Just wanted to introduce myself. I have lurked here for a while and just recently registered. I have been exploring the San Antonio area for a few years now (the usual places, cement kilns, cold storage, ranch houses, etc.), and just though I would drop in and say hi to fellow UEers from the area. This forum is a great place to share expertise and collaborate on researching sites. I am a chemist and would like to offer my help in identifying equipment you might run across. I know that this aspect of UE is what got me in to it. I love finding disused industrial equipment, etc. Let me know if I can help. Otherwise, I look forward to contributing to this board as I really think that UE can benefit from everyone working together and protecting sites from needless damage. Again, let me know where I can help out.
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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 7/16/2006 11:28 PM >
|  | | | Welcome to UER. Sounds like you have a good start on exploring already, and Texas is a gold mine of locations.
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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TXchemist
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<Reply # 2 on 7/16/2006 11:44 PM >
| | | | Thanks for the welcome. Texas is a great state for UE. I have been pleasantly suprised by by quite a few locations. I just go back from a trip to NM. I am very jealous of your landscapes. Chaco canyon was awesome.
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SilentSearch
Location: Cowtown
Gender: Male
My rebellion against the santa cursor! HoHoHo
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<Reply # 3 on 7/17/2006 4:07 AM >
| | | | Welcome to the boards! How about some pictures now, eh! LOL
Official UE Safety officer and rescue specialist. |
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TXchemist
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<Reply # 4 on 7/17/2006 2:19 PM >
| | | | Yeah I need to pull out the scanner, I have some cool B+W stuff. I need to move into the world of digital, but I have my own darkroom so I have a bunch of prints. I will scan some tonight and put a few up.
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Allva
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Gender: Male
I have my moments.
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<Reply # 5 on 7/17/2006 2:27 PM >
| | | | Welcome.
San Antonio has quite a few good sites.
Where have u been?
...and "YES", how about some photos?
Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid. |
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TXchemist
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<Reply # 6 on 7/17/2006 7:47 PM >
| | | | Longhorn, Hotwells, Refrig. Storage, lonestar brewery, seven oaks (before the fire, actually about 3 blocks from where I live now), pearl brewery (before the fires and renovation), a great abandoned ranch house on the north side that is now gone, a semi-deactivated airforce base that will remain nameless. Still looking for more good stuff, I like to drive around and hunt. Pictures soon!
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Allva
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Gender: Male
I have my moments.
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<Reply # 7 on 7/17/2006 8:39 PM >
| | | | How was Pearl? Any photos?
I do remember attempting, but security was tight.
Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid. |
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0U812
Location: Lubbock, TX
Gender: Female
Texploration
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<Reply # 8 on 7/17/2006 8:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by Jonsered
Texas is a gold mine of locations.
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Really?
I figured out what's wrong with life:
It's other people. |
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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 # 9 on 7/17/2006 9:04 PM >
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OU, I know it sound hard to believe, but when you get full membership, you will see what I'm talking about. 2x posts 2 or 3 new locations a week, and he's just one guy. lots of good stuff out there, even up in the panhandle.
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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Explorer Zero
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<Reply # 10 on 7/17/2006 9:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by Jonsered
OU, I know it sound hard to believe, but when you get full membership, you will see what I'm talking about. 2x posts 2 or 3 new locations a week, and he's just one guy. lots of good stuff out there, even up in the panhandle.
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to be fair I had "planned" my vacation route to go very near the radar station and all those ghost towns, my family has learned to endure my obsessiveness!
oooh look thats abandoned, screeeeeech skid.. y'all wait here Daddys just gonna take some pictures!
yeah theres literally thousands of places to explore, problem is a lot of people think you can only explore abandoned malt plants or asylums and they turn up their noses at live building exploration or construction sites
I just did a cool building construction site with Noah Vale this weekend and like a dozen or so other live and contemporary locations I have not added to the DB, it was fun!
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0U812
Location: Lubbock, TX
Gender: Female
Texploration
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<Reply # 11 on 7/17/2006 9:54 PM >
| | | | Posted by Jonsered
OU, I know it sound hard to believe, but when you get full membership, you will see what I'm talking about. 2x posts 2 or 3 new locations a week, and he's just one guy. lots of good stuff out there, even up in the panhandle.
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Haven't gotten full membership so far and probably never will.
I figured out what's wrong with life:
It's other people. |
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Explorer Zero
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<Reply # 12 on 7/17/2006 10:53 PM >
| | | | Posted by 0U812
Haven't gotten full membership so far and probably never will.
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have you contributed anything to the forum?
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TXchemist
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<Reply # 13 on 7/18/2006 3:36 AM >
| | | | Alva- Pearl was great. Very little decay or vandal. Very creepy. Oddly, security was very light during the day, just one guy as far as I could tell and he was busy watching TV in his pickup. This was 2 1/2 years ago though and now with the new construction, they are worried about people stealing tools etc.
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TXchemist
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<Reply # 14 on 7/18/2006 3:40 AM >
| | | | Here are a few photos from the Longhorn concrete kiln. I will slowly get some more together, my negs and prints are not very well organized.
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Allva
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Gender: Male
I have my moments.
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<Reply # 15 on 7/18/2006 12:40 PM >
| | | | Posted by TXchemist
Alva- Pearl was great. Very little decay or vandal. Very creepy. Oddly, security was very light during the day, just one guy as far as I could tell and he was busy watching TV in his pickup. This was 2 1/2 years ago though and now with the new construction, they are worried about people stealing tools etc.
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Unfortunately we were never able to get in...This must have been during the period of brewery's planned reconstruction...You would think it was Fort Knox...I mean 24 hr kind of thing...After the fire it got worse. Were you able get inside any of the buildings?
Longhorn Quarry is pretty sweet. I've been there many times.Check out some of my shots in http://www.uer.ca/...w.asp?locid=23794
Ever been to Lone Star Brewery?
Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid. |
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0U812
Location: Lubbock, TX
Gender: Female
Texploration
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<Reply # 16 on 7/18/2006 1:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by 2Xplorations
have you contributed anything to the forum?
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Apparently not. I don't have any way of posting any pictures and I have a lot that I could.
I figured out what's wrong with life:
It's other people. |
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
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<Reply # 17 on 7/18/2006 3:15 PM >
| | | | Welcome Chemist! Yeah, the LHQ has been my baby for pretty much since I started exploring seriously. It has a place in my heart for sure. I would be most interested in seeing any pictures you have of Perl, especially since they will be the only ones pretty much anyone here has seen. Me and Allva tried several times but like he said, it was Ft Knox. I've not updated it in way too long and it doesn't show my current photographic abilities but you might be interested in taking a look at my site as well:
Http://suv.topcities.com
Tetanus for Breakfast!
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TXchemist
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<Reply # 18 on 7/18/2006 10:11 PM >
| | | | Rev - I am familiar with your website, awesome work, great photos. I will dig out the big book of negatives tonight and see what I have from pearl. I'll post up a new thread with what I have. I hope I have something decent, I was so excited to be in and I was nervous and solo. I would love to go back. I am thinking of scouting it out again this weekend.
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Allva
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Gender: Male
I have my moments.
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<Reply # 19 on 7/18/2006 11:15 PM >
| | | | No need to go back to Pearl. Large part of it is occupied by a Beauty school with a sizeable parking lot....It's no longer a UE site...It's just another business/strip mall.
Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid. |
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