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 Liquorhead
 
Location: Sherman,Tx
Gender: Male
 |  | The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
< on 9/7/2009 5:13 PM >
|  | | | Seeing as how Texas gets all the love on this forum, I felt it was about time to show some appreciation to our neighbor to the East. Residing halfway between Dallas and Shreveport, I had to make a decision about which area to explore first. Undoubtedly, the hardest part of exploring Louisiana is sifting through the abandonment websites and forums, which appear to be written by dyslexic teenagers who take mass amounts of muscle relaxers and bang their foreheads on the keyboard spastically to create sentences. But, once you get passed that minor roadblock, Louisiana is a great state to explore. It still amazes me how much things change once you leave Texas and enter the Lou. Never is it more vivid than when you drive on 84 through Logansport, past Mansfield, and into the Grand Bayou area. There's one area on Highway 1 that has a cluster of about 10 houses falling down. Roof gone, porch sinking in, grass about 6 feet tall. Every house there is still being lived in! Just unbelievable.
The first place I ever explored - Ellerbe Road School. I've been hooked ever since going here.
The Pea Farm Prison. I went with a co-worker of mine to this place on a rainy day. I had a "rough" idea of where this place was at, but due to a couple of wrong turns, we ended up wandering around the woods, in the rain, for about an hour. It was worth it.
Rocky Mount School. Middle of nowhere, Louisiana. No graffiti, no destruction, just alot of bats.
Rodessa School. This place is currently owned by a sheriff. A lovely man in a mobile home adjacent to the school let his 2 pit bulls out on me and my wife while we were visiting here. Awesome.
Hanna School.
So that's it... post pics if ya got 'em!
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Imbroglio
   
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
| |  | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 1 on 9/8/2009 8:02 AM >
| | | | Here's the gym in the Rodessa school (that I got run off from)...
Here's a little cafe just down the road from Rodessa...
And here's the well known Carney's in Shreveport...
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Raticus
   
Moderator
Location: Tyler
Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 2 on 9/8/2009 1:48 PM >
| | | | Very nice job. I love that picture with the old merry-go-round in it. Great shot. Reminds me of the one we had at my elementary school in the '20s.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something. |
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RevSM
 
Location: South Central Texas
| | | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 3 on 9/8/2009 3:30 PM >
| | | | LOL, I've been to Rodessa School several times and twice with my parents. We never got run off. 
Also, does anyone else find it strange that there are so many abandoned schools in Louisiana?
Tetanus for Breakfast!
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Explorer Zero
| | | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 4 on 9/8/2009 4:38 PM >
| | | | Posted by RevSM
Also, does anyone else find it strange that there are so many abandoned schools in Louisiana?
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I guess not really
seems kinda like they aint been to successful with the whole concept of edumacation and whatnot over there I mean Im just sayin, here comes a hurricane uhh whata we do uhh ??
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Raticus
Moderator
Location: Tyler
Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 5 on 9/8/2009 4:40 PM >
| | | | Posted by RevSM
Also, does anyone else find it strange that there are so many abandoned schools in Louisiana?
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They were shutdown because of law suits stemming from the head injuries resulting from the above mentioned dyslexic muscle relaxed forehead typing.
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Explorer Zero
| | | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 6 on 9/8/2009 4:58 PM >
| | | | well the one in Rodessa is practically made out of asbestos maybe that contributed to low test scores as well as mesothelioma and head banging
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musket boy
Location: Maui
Gender: Male
It smells like your grandpa and your feet stick to the floor
| |  | | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 7 on 9/8/2009 5:03 PM >
| | | | i cant believe you explored these places there must have been so many hobo crackheads, i hope you had 3 guys with knives with you
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Crab_Soul
| | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 8 on 9/8/2009 5:58 PM >
|  | | | hobo crack head zombies. and super mutants..
chyea ima louisiana wastelander...
oh and i would say elerbee road school is so famous around here... that its not even worth going to anymore. all of these stupid rumors about a janitor that killed kids. when in actuality the school was never even opened. it was supposed to be an all blacks school back in the day.
for shreveport fun
http://www.uer.ca/...d=68690&currpage=1
[last edit 9/8/2009 6:01 PM by Crab_Soul - edited 2 times]
I saw a breathing lump under a blanket, what could it be? - 1 hobo - 2 dwarf hobos - 8 racoons - 443 rats - 896 mice or 11 rat kings?
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Liquorhead
Location: Sherman,Tx
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 9 on 9/8/2009 9:41 PM >
| | | | Posted by musket boy
i cant believe you explored these places there must have been so many hobo crackheads, i hope you had 3 guys with knives with you
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Ah, I see what you did there! I knew I would take criticism when I posted that story as my first thread. That story was factual, although written in a slightly comedic way. I didn't try to make myself sound like John Rambo, I just wrote what happened. I'm fully aware that people visit hundreds of abandonments and never run into anyone. I did, so I wrote about it.
Also, there's another abandoned school in Rodessa. I think it's called Pine Valley. The architecture is nearly identical to Ellerbe, but it's not nearly as trashed.
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
| | | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 10 on 9/8/2009 9:50 PM >
| | | | Pine Valley School, Circa a long time ago:
Unfortunately it's not quite as cool looking since they put up a fence around it and filled it with cows that keep all the plant life well trimmed.
Tetanus for Breakfast!
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Crab_Soul
| | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 11 on 9/9/2009 5:40 AM >
| | | | lol i would think the cows keep it nice and fertalized. i hear there is cow shyit everywhere. and also a man who fires off gunshot rounds with rocksalt.
I saw a breathing lump under a blanket, what could it be? - 1 hobo - 2 dwarf hobos - 8 racoons - 443 rats - 896 mice or 11 rat kings?
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RobertB
Location: Skeeterville, TX
Gender: Male
Maybe I shouldn't be using my real name...
| | | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 12 on 9/9/2009 4:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by RevSM
Pine Valley School, Circa a long time ago:
Unfortunately it's not quite as cool looking since they put up a fence around it and filled it with cows that keep all the plant life well trimmed.
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That shot is a dead ringer for the scene in Children of Men, where they're hanging out at the abandoned school waiting for their ride into (!) the prison city. Awesome.
J'ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte.
La voici: "Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules!"
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
| | | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 13 on 9/9/2009 10:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by RobertB
That shot is a dead ringer for the scene in Children of Men, where they're hanging out at the abandoned school waiting for their ride into (!) the prison city. Awesome.
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Thanks, that's one of my oldest UE photos and still one of my best.
Tetanus for Breakfast!
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altaria
Location: Austin, TX
Gender: Female
| | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 14 on 9/10/2009 1:35 AM >
| | | | Great set! My friend and I are debating taking a trip out that way in the next couple of weeks, so we might have to check some of those places out! I'm very intrigued by the vine covered school.
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FireworksOrStars
Location: New Orleans via Shreveport, Louisiana
Gender: Female
| | | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 15 on 9/11/2009 3:30 AM >
| | | | Liquorhead, I love the photos of Rocky Mount. I never got around to making the drive out there when I lived in north Louisiana.
Some of my favorites:
Hanna Ford, an old car dealership later used by both the Krewe of Centaur and the Krewe of Gemini as a float den. Claude the Crawfish was my favorite as a kid; imagine my surprise stumbling upon him ten years later.
One of Claude's legs
Rodessa school
The Pea Farm
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Liquorhead
Location: Sherman,Tx
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 17 on 9/11/2009 4:00 AM >
| | | | Excellent photos, Fireworks! Did you ever make it out to the Grand Bayou or Grand Cane schools? I drove all over Grand Cane and never found the school. Grand Bayou was easy enough to find, but the 8 foot tall electric fence surrounding the place kinda turned me off.
Anyway, great pics!
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Crab_Soul
| | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 18 on 9/11/2009 6:43 PM >
| | | | if anyones interested i am from shreveport too and know some pretty good places to explore.
I saw a breathing lump under a blanket, what could it be? - 1 hobo - 2 dwarf hobos - 8 racoons - 443 rats - 896 mice or 11 rat kings?
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FireworksOrStars
Location: New Orleans via Shreveport, Louisiana
Gender: Female
| | | Re: The Louisiana Appreciation Thread
<Reply # 19 on 9/12/2009 4:42 AM >
| | | | Posted by Liquorhead
Excellent photos, Fireworks! Did you ever make it out to the Grand Bayou or Grand Cane schools? I drove all over Grand Cane and never found the school. Grand Bayou was easy enough to find, but the 8 foot tall electric fence surrounding the place kinda turned me off.
Anyway, great pics!
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Haven't tried Grand Bayou or Grand Cane. I'm going to hunt for Rocky Mount tomorrow since I'm in town for the weekend. I have a couple of friends who grew up in Grand Cane; I'll ask them if they know about the school there. Who knows, it may be out on some back road like Pine Valley.
[last edit 9/12/2009 4:42 AM by FireworksOrStars - edited 1 times]
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