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UER Forum > Archived US: Great Lakes > First true exploration... (Viewed 613 times) shotgun mario  Location: MSP Gender: Male MSP Elite™ Card-Carrying Member  |  |  First true exploration... < on 4/29/2008 2:16 AM >   Finally got around to a 'true' exploration with some friends. There's a big bookstore in downtown Milwaukee housed in, from what I'm told, the oldest building on Wisconsin Avenue (one of the biggest streets in Milwaukee. The bookstore itself is on 2 floors, prob. around 4-5 thousand square feet, but containing 1-1.5 million articles of books, comics, records, etc. etc. (or so the owner says). Well, the bookstore only takes up less than 25% of the building, and if you choose to you can wander off. The building itself is 4 main floors, with 2 one-room floors above that. The bookstore is housed on 1/3 of the first floor, and about 1/2 of the second floor. The rest of the building is pretty much falling apart, so they do not let people up to the other floors, but it's easy enough to find your way up. Just takes a bit of timing to avoid the owner, employees, and the other customers. The third floor of the building looks like it was at one time an old department store of some sort, probably abandoned in the late 60's. There was a main lobby, several larger rooms, a changing room section, accounting room and so on. It was hard to get around, as the floor squeaked horribly, and I was somewhat nervous walking, so to not give away to people below in the bookstore that we were up there. The fourth floor was offices and a giant printing room. T'was quite neat, as whoever used to own it dumped all of the metal shipping negatives on the floor in one giant heap, all rusting together from the leaking roof. The floor above that was a very small, white-particle board room, which some vandals had turned into a sort of schoolroom by tearing the white paint away, leaving the brown undertone visible. In this room the camera I was using ran out of batteries, reformatting the flash it was on, and putting a larger damper on the entire thing (managed to pull the images later though). The final floor was the elevator machinery, which I tried to photograph with my cellphone camera to the best of my ability. Then it was just slipping back into the bookstore, and buying a few things I had eyed before walking out the front door ;) Note: the pictures are MUCH brighter than it actually was, to the point that I could not center my images on what I was photographing. But you all understand. click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view If you want to protect the locations you love to explore, don't talk about them online in public! If you want to make exploring friends, send people private messages! Meet up in real life! Get off the internet! Don't try to have a UER e-penis! You won't impress anyone! This especially means you, Minneapolis MN newbies! Ram23  Location: Cincinnati, OH and/or Queens, NY Gender: Male  |  |  |  Re: First true exploration... <Reply # 1 on 4/29/2008 2:23 AM >   Nicely done. Exploring semi-active sites has always been one of my favorite UE types. What's going on in image 6? Is that a reflection or are the walls actually curvy in a fun-house way like that? Cincinnati UE Photos: http://zfein.com/photography shotgun mario  Location: MSP Gender: Male MSP Elite™ Card-Carrying Member  |  |  Re: First true exploration... <Reply # 2 on 4/29/2008 2:27 AM >   they're falling apart from water damage. The roof leaks horribly, all the way down to the bookstore, and the floors are rotting out (where they can, most is tile or linoleum) If you want to protect the locations you love to explore, don't talk about them online in public! If you want to make exploring friends, send people private messages! Meet up in real life! Get off the internet! Don't try to have a UER e-penis! You won't impress anyone! This especially means you, Minneapolis MN newbies! Wiccan  Location: Hamilton Ontario Gender: Female  |  Re: First true exploration... <Reply # 3 on 4/29/2008 2:41 AM >   I like the retro flowers in number two,thanks for the look! jhota  Location: Burlington, KY Gender: Female  |  |  Re: First true exploration... <Reply # 4 on 4/29/2008 11:23 AM >   awesome! never explored the other areas, but that book store was my favorite when i lived there! nice photos as well, thanks for sharing. secret  Location: St. Paul, MN Gender: Male  |  Re: First true exploration... <Reply # 5 on 5/1/2008 11:10 PM >   Cool, slipping into that random door in an old building is always an adventure. Some girls should just be happy they were invited to the prom.. UER Forum > Archived US: Great Lakes > First true exploration... (Viewed 613 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. 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