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 The Anti-Paradigm
      
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< on 9/16/2010 11:01 AM >
|  | | | Was watching the Discovery channel show The colony, and was Just curious, does anyone (any of you "Louisianians") know where they filmed this? Supposedly it is in an abandoned 10 acre complex in Louisiana that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina... Curious if anyone knew where this was... I would like to go there to see if any of the shit they used was still there, like tools and such...
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The Anti-Paradigm
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<Reply # 1 on 9/16/2010 11:51 AM >
| | | | Nevermind, I found it..The place is like 20 acres or more.... Might make the five hour drive next weekend with my girl. Make a whole weekend of it.
Address: 498 southern pl. Chalmette, LA
[last edit 9/16/2010 2:34 PM by The Anti-Paradigm - edited 1 times]
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relik
Location: 44.26126°,-88.41502° (Appleton, WI)
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| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 2 on 9/16/2010 9:15 PM >
| | | | Posted by AntiParadigmProductions
Nevermind, I found it..The place is like 20 acres or more.... Might make the five hour drive next weekend with my girl. Make a whole weekend of it.
Address: 498 southern pl. Chalmette, LA
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i'm on my way to vandalize the eff out of it. haha, kidding.
that's pretty cool though, i google-mapped it and it's crazy that it's just a whole area lacking life, and around it, inhabited buildings and homes and such.
i've never seen the show personally. do you know why the area is abandoned? was it solely for the purpose of the show?
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urbexinc
Location: DFW
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| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 3 on 9/16/2010 10:53 PM >
| | | | Posted by relik
i'm on my way to vandalize the eff out of it. haha, kidding.
that's pretty cool though, i google-mapped it and it's crazy that it's just a whole area lacking life, and around it, inhabited buildings and homes and such.
i've never seen the show personally. do you know why the area is abandoned? was it solely for the purpose of the show?
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It was abandoned because of Katrina but a group of people stepped in to keep it abandoned for the show so they could perform an experiment to see how well these people could rebuild a society/colony or survive in an post-apocalyptic world during/after a disease epidemic (but without the real disease in the show) and so they built shelters in the abandoned buildings there and set up a semi-Fallout like community...so yeah it was kept abandoned for the show but caused by Katrina...great show too I love it.
-Nathan
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relik
Location: 44.26126°,-88.41502° (Appleton, WI)
Gender: Male
There is no truth, Only a perspective.
| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 4 on 9/17/2010 2:49 AM >
| | | | Posted by urbexinc
It was abandoned because of Katrina but a group of people stepped in to keep it abandoned for the show so they could perform an experiment to see how well these people could rebuild a society/colony or survive in an post-apocalyptic world during/after a disease epidemic (but without the real disease in the show) and so they built shelters in the abandoned buildings there and set up a semi-Fallout like community...so yeah it was kept abandoned for the show but caused by Katrina...great show too I love it.
-Nathan
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i see. yeah, i've heard about the show. just wasn't sure upon the reasoning of the abandonment. it's pretty cool they put it to use though. i bet it would be an awesome day of exploring.
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medic pathetic
Location: slidell, la
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 5 on 9/17/2010 3:30 AM >
| | | | I will be checking it out as well...I think it will be neat to see the house where the show was shot...thanks for the address, it saved me hours of DVR time trying to catch a street sign lol... 
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The Anti-Paradigm
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| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 6 on 9/17/2010 6:42 AM >
| | | | I will def bet going there not this but next weekend if anyone wants to meet up. PM me and maybe we can meet up in NOLA or something. It's a long drive for me, but i think it will totally be worth it.
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relik
Location: 44.26126°,-88.41502° (Appleton, WI)
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| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 7 on 9/17/2010 7:32 PM >
| | | | Posted by AntiParadigmProductions
I will def bet going there not this but next weekend if anyone wants to meet up. PM me and maybe we can meet up in NOLA or something. It's a long drive for me, but i think it will totally be worth it.
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if i didn't live hours away, perhaps i would be down.
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medic pathetic
Location: slidell, la
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 8 on 9/18/2010 5:01 AM >
| | | | Posted by AntiParadigmProductions
I will def bet going there not this but next weekend if anyone wants to meet up. PM me and maybe we can meet up in NOLA or something. It's a long drive for me, but i think it will totally be worth it.
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I might be interested...a friend of mine is supposed to come to town to do six flags, but if that falls through..lol
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metawaffle
  
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Location: Brisbane!
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| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 9 on 9/18/2010 11:26 AM >
| | | | Well damn! BelleZ and I were right near there a few weeks ago. If I was paying closer attention, I'd have checked this out, after dodging workers inside and cops outside of Six Flags 
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MonkeyPunchBaby
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<Reply # 10 on 9/18/2010 12:17 PM >
| | | | My fiancé and I are honeymooning in New Orleans. We will would be down to go to this place. And Chris-Kicker will be with us too.
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medic pathetic
Location: slidell, la
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 11 on 9/19/2010 2:13 AM >
| | | | Posted by metawaffle
Well damn! BelleZ and I were right near there a few weeks ago. If I was paying closer attention, I'd have checked this out, after dodging workers inside and cops outside of Six Flags
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cops and workers inside six flags? Were the cops out there doing training again? Or are they actually starting to work on demoliton or something?
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metawaffle
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Location: Brisbane!
Gender: Male
Purveyor of Fine Lampshades
| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 12 on 9/19/2010 2:25 AM >
| | | | Posted by medic pathetic
cops and workers inside six flags? Were the cops out there doing training again? Or are they actually starting to work on demoliton or something?
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Both were wrong-place-wrong-time. The workers pulled up at the base of the big rollercoaster while I was on the track. I thought at first they'd spotted me, but they were just doing stuff down at the base of the entry and exit ramps. So, we jumped off the tracks, sloshed through to the ghost train, ran through that, fell off walls into the swamp, and eventually made it out to where we'd hidden the car. We drove off filthy, bloody, and sodden, but giggling with close-call glee.
Unfortunately, an idling cop saw us suspicious sorts, and pulled us over a few blocks away, and proceeded to grill us as to where we'd been. We claimed to be lost tourists, but he knew exactly where we'd been. "We're looking for the 510 downtown?" "You folks been to Six Flags?" "five-ten?" "six flags?".
He took our licenses and registration, and went off to run them, but got an urgent call, threw or stuff back at us, and said "you're lucky"
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metawaffle
King of Puns
Location: Brisbane!
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| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 13 on 9/19/2010 2:27 AM >
| | | | This was a weekday morning, by the way. Arrived pre-dawn, and left around 8am.
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medic pathetic
Location: slidell, la
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 14 on 9/19/2010 4:32 AM >
| | | | Posted by metawaffle
Both were wrong-place-wrong-time. The workers pulled up at the base of the big rollercoaster while I was on the track. I thought at first they'd spotted me, but they were just doing stuff down at the base of the entry and exit ramps. So, we jumped off the tracks, sloshed through to the ghost train, ran through that, fell off walls into the swamp, and eventually made it out to where we'd hidden the car. We drove off filthy, bloody, and sodden, but giggling with close-call glee.
Unfortunately, an idling cop saw us suspicious sorts, and pulled us over a few blocks away, and proceeded to grill us as to where we'd been. We claimed to be lost tourists, but he knew exactly where we'd been. "We're looking for the 510 downtown?" "You folks been to Six Flags?" "five-ten?" "six flags?".
He took our licenses and registration, and went off to run them, but got an urgent call, threw or stuff back at us, and said "you're lucky"
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except for the cop part it sounds awesome....I'm trying to put together a nighttime trip out there, want to climb the giant skycoaster and rapell down...
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The Anti-Paradigm
Location: -HTX-
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Against the Flow
| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 15 on 9/21/2010 5:54 AM >
| | | | So far everything is still a go for this weekend. I am not familiar with Louisiana territory, might be staying with a friend's family, or at a hotel for the night. I will try and get on somewhere in that time and see what everyone is doing here, and maybe schedule a meet-up. Probably Sat around 3 or 4 pm... or maybe sunday a.m. ... Just depending on what time i get there. I get off of work at 730 am and will pick my girl up and drive strait out there (5.5-6 hrs)
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MonkeyPunchBaby
| | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 16 on 9/21/2010 12:05 PM >
| | | | Posted by AntiParadigmProductions
So far everything is still a go for this weekend. I am not familiar with Louisiana territory, might be staying with a friend's family, or at a hotel for the night. I will try and get on somewhere in that time and see what everyone is doing here, and maybe schedule a meet-up. Probably Sat around 3 or 4 pm... or maybe sunday a.m. ... Just depending on what time i get there. I get off of work at 730 am and will pick my girl up and drive strait out there (5.5-6 hrs)
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My fiancé and Chris kicker and my myself will he down there starting the 27th and we have worked out with medic pathetic on hitting some places up on the 28th. So if we can get a meet up then that would be awesome.
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The Anti-Paradigm
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Against the Flow
| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 17 on 9/21/2010 12:21 PM >
| | | | I will only be there the 25th and 26th, Gotta go back to work after that!
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MonkeyPunchBaby
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<Reply # 18 on 9/21/2010 12:25 PM >
| | | | Posted by AntiParadigmProductions
I will only be there the 25th and 26th, Gotta go back to work after that!
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Well dammit that sucks. We are gonna be on our honeymoon that week so we will be down there for most of the week.
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The Anti-Paradigm
Location: -HTX-
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Against the Flow
| | | Re: The Colony Location
<Reply # 19 on 9/21/2010 3:22 PM >
| | | | I loved looking this location up in Google maps. While the "colonists" were scrounging and cooking roaches for dinner, barely surviving on rice with water... There was a Subway Sandwich shop not half a mile away... The irony!
For those who havent seen the landscape...
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/colony/
Here is some Google Earthery showing the location before and after Katrina...
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2010
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