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 TheGreatShakesby
 
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< on 2/15/2008 3:23 AM >
|  | | | Do any of you remember the first time you explored an abandonment? I do, and it was nothing short of amazing. I was about 8 or 9, and I was over at my friends house in his awesome neighborhood. It was more of an upscale community than a neighborhood and in the front there was a very large, brown abandoned building. One day the side door was open and we just wondered in the basement. Upstairs, it looked like a massive banquet hall. A wide open space like a dance floor, a sort of stage with an old piano and everything. There were old booze bottles scattered around and near the front entrance a large piece of sheepskin, perhaps a rug. We tried to go a few weeks later but sadly the door was locked. That summer my friend moved away, and eventually the building was demolished, a small park is now in it's place.
So, my question is, do you remember your first time? Also as a more personal question, how might I go about finding information about this building and what it was used for? I am curious as to why it was shut down. Does anyone have a potential solution for this?
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tholcomb
   
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Gender: Male
Captain Baghead!
| | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 1 on 2/15/2008 4:05 AM >
| | | | My first time was an abandoned house.
Filled with shit.
Quite boring after walking there nearly every Friday after school.
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ZachariahDaMan
Location: Detroit
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 2 on 2/15/2008 5:22 AM >
| | | | My first was an abandoned house in my town when I was about 16. I didn't drive but I was with my mom and convinced her to go there. She even went inside with me! A few weeks later we both went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan haha. Who can say that their mom explored with them?
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metawaffle
  
King of Puns
Location: Brisbane!
Gender: Male
Purveyor of Fine Lampshades
| |  | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 3 on 2/15/2008 6:34 AM >
| | | | Great question, and I have no good answer. I came to exploration through photography, mostly, and I never thought of those abandoned barns and roadhouses as anything other than photographic subjects.
The first drain, though, that's a memory that will stay with me for a while.
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Autobot_Octane
Location: American Fork
Gender: Male
Autobot Pimp
| | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 4 on 2/15/2008 6:53 AM >
| | | | yes i do, very clearly. house. we called it the ghost house. a family would live there for 3 months and then they would either sell and move or just leave. i never did find out why. i found porno, dead pigeons, and a few beers. ah, good times. i was 9 i think i cant remember anymore
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AlphaCueUp
Location: Phoenix
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<Reply # 5 on 2/15/2008 7:06 AM >
| | | | my first was when i was a lil kid somewhere between 9-12....right on busy main street......it was a burnt antique store....
we had to climb a couple of fences, creep across a couple of rooftops, and climb down a wall onto the roof...we enter through the back door to the second floor...which was charred and decrepit and pretty much empty, aside from the heaps of pigeon shit....there was an upstairs that was all burnt up and very unsafe....there wasnt much up there except some styrofoam mannequin heads and torsos we would toss out the windows onto main street (we were dumb kids and didnt know any better, this resulted in hastening the demo of this building)
the first floor was accessed either through a hole in the roof, or through the hole that was once stairs....the first floor had tons of antique crap still there...we took all kinds of crap that appealed to us as punk kids...and destroyed the rest (we were dumb kids) i remember smashing glass shelves filled with glass/crystal antique trinkets....if i had known any better, i would have filled up a sack and made some money....we even smashed a few antique television sets...
this place was awesome...we made it our home...we chilled there all the time....its funny because when we first found it, everyone was scared to go in....on the wall right where you climb down where the stairs used to be, everyone would sign their name, or their tag in sharpie to proove they went down...we called this place 'the haunted house' i miss this place
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Aidan
Location: Tomball, TX
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 6 on 2/15/2008 7:34 AM >
| | | | My first was a farmhouse from the turn of the century or earlier. The entire back of the place was collapsed and flat on the ground, but the front still stood, as did the garage, and there were these great flowers painted on the living room wall, and this star wallpaper under the first layer of drywall in the other standing room.
"And I ain't got no money now but I will pay before I die" |
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Big Poppa G
Location: Newport "FREAKIN" News VA
Gender: Male
Just a Naggity-ASS!
| |  | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 7 on 2/15/2008 11:50 AM >
| | | | Mine was a basement of an old apartment building in Germany when I was a military BRAT.............come to think of it...........I got busted then.
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TheGreatShakesby
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| | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 8 on 2/16/2008 5:14 AM >
| | | | Wow... I want to UE someplace where I have to cross over roofs to get to 
That place with the interesting wallpaper sounds cool too. Is it still standing? You should get some pictures if it is.
This is beautiful.
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ghost_boo
Location: Mtl/Laval
| | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 9 on 2/17/2008 7:06 PM >
| | | | If I remember, it was 3 years ago, the place was a train factory (Geo reed). For the first time, I was amaze by everything but if I rethink about it. The place was all vandalize and empty. Nothing special and we found an hobo on that same day.
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uLiveAndYouBurn
Location: Beyond
Anarchocommunist
| | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 10 on 2/17/2008 8:53 PM >
| | | | It was a huge world war two aircraft factory that my grandmother had rented a small section of to build cabinets. The rest was empty. It was four stories plus a huge basement. Smokestack, huge furnaces, lots of really heavy steel doors, and even a boxcar half buried in a court yard.
"Aint nothin' to it but to do it"
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monster
Location: Sugarland, TX / Minneapolis MN
Gender: Female
I am the thing that goes bump in the night
| | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 11 on 2/18/2008 12:57 AM >
| | | | I have been exploring as long as I can remember. The woods for example.
My first official 'UE' was a 2.5 foot high, 50 foot long section of drain about 3 feet underground when I was 12 or 13.
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 12 on 2/18/2008 4:26 AM >
| | | | Unless you count construction sites, my first time was probably when I was about 14. Some friends found an abandoned farm on the outskirts of Edmonton so we rode our bikes over. The house was torn up and useless, so we set up a hideout in the barn. Me and one friend found a litter of dead kittens (sad now that I think about it but I wasn't bothered then) and we served them up to the others on a platter as a joke. Then a car drove in, and I spent 30 minutes hiding behind some trees as they seemed to be looking for me. My friends thought I was caught for sure.
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TheGreatShakesby
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| | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 13 on 2/18/2008 5:45 AM >
| | | | Posted by racetraitor
Unless you count construction sites, my first time was probably when I was about 14. Some friends found an abandoned farm on the outskirts of Edmonton so we rode our bikes over. The house was torn up and useless, so we set up a hideout in the barn. Me and one friend found a litter of dead kittens (sad now that I think about it but I wasn't bothered then) and we served them up to the others on a platter as a joke. Then a car drove in, and I spent 30 minutes hiding behind some trees as they seemed to be looking for me. My friends thought I was caught for sure.
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Strange, do you know what the car was doing there? I would be freaked out, thinking they would kidnap me or something! XD
Anyway, a bit of an update for all those who are curious. I asked my mom and it turns out that the large dance hall I first explored used to be part of the county fair grounds. In fact, that whole neighborhood used to be where the county fair was held, years and years ago before my mom and dad ever even lived there. I guess it was the last remnant of the fairgrounds... Very sad to see it go now that I think about it.
This is beautiful.
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Richard Davies
Location: stockport
Gender: Male
The Trickster On The Roof
| | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 14 on 2/18/2008 8:24 PM >
|  | | | When I was 8-9 me & my best friend's neighbour had some kind of semi-abondoned maisonette - summerhouse in their large back garden.
We once sneaked in but there wasn't much to see.
My friend's garden had a garage in, which was stuffed with all sorts of junk, including a load of kitschy 1960s kitchen units.
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Hawkwind
Location: largo, Florida 33771...
Gender: Male
In Search Of Space
| | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 15 on 2/19/2008 3:07 AM >
| | | | My first abandoned building was back in the early-mid 1960s when I was about 8 years old. At the intersection of Limekiln Pike and Glenside Ave in
Glenside Pa outside of Philadelphia, was a pharmacy on the corner that my mother would always drag me to. On another corner was an abandoned one story
building with missing windows and doors that looked like it had might been a car dealership in the past. Great big room in the front with offices in the
back. I snuck off from her one day and went over to it, walked into the back where the offices were. It was empty except for a desk that had a safe built into it. I then walked into the front area and out the front door where there was an old truck with it's hood up and two guys working on it. They looked at me like I was some kind of space alien. I ignored them and headed back to the pharmacy...
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Soldat
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Gender: Male
The Mayor of Noobtown
| | | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 16 on 2/19/2008 4:35 PM >
| | | | Mine was an old water pumping station in Philadelphia when I was 8 or 9. It was about 100 yards away from my aunts house and when we went to visit I would go there.
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Wilk
Location: NYC
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 17 on 2/19/2008 5:44 PM >
| | | | My first was an abandoned train tressel in West Virginia. It was pretty stupid now that I look back on it, a bunch of 10 year old kids running around on an old train tressel with a 200 foot drop under our feet. But it sure was fun at the time! Kind of like hitching rides on the freight trains by my grandma's house. If our parents only knew the stuff we we're up to I probably would have ended up in some military school.
Ready for liftoff
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Aidan
Location: Tomball, TX
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 18 on 2/20/2008 12:15 AM >
| | | | Posted by TheGreatShakesby
Wow... I want to UE someplace where I have to cross over roofs to get to
That place with the interesting wallpaper sounds cool too. Is it still standing? You should get some pictures if it is.
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These are not so great, as I was just starting to play with cameras.
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http://fc01.devian...rs_by_Meowyiff.jpg
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emck00
Location: 518/315, New York.
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Your first UE?
<Reply # 19 on 2/20/2008 1:53 PM >
| | | | Posted by ZachariahDaMan
My first was an abandoned house in my town when I was about 16. I didn't drive but I was with my mom and convinced her to go there. She even went inside with me! A few weeks later we both went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan haha. Who can say that their mom explored with them?
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*raises hand*
mine was a boring old house, nothing inside but a cup and a chair. But as boring as it was, i have returned.
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