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Mike Zombie
location:
Long Beach, CA.
Gender: Male
 |  | Obsolete Electrical Building - Ortega Highway. San Juan Capistrano.
< on 4/1/2009 1:01 AM >
|  | | | This structure is a bit of a puzzler.
It's loaded with obsolete electrical gear. If I had to venture a guess as to the era, I'd say late 70s's. It's located in easy reach of transmission wires, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was some sort of substation in a previous life.
Some of the logs I found made mention of "Hours of service" of diesel engines, which could have been generating for the local farm community before San Juan Capistrano started to expand. There is a Pacific Bell logo on the sign out front, telling of phone wires underground.
There is an outhouse out back, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone spent shifts here, keeping all the circuit breakers intact (Ralphies dad from A Christmas Story).
I forgot my respirator, and the smell of rot/mold made it a brief stop. I'll have to return and see what all the paperwork was about.
Cal-Trans is widening the Ortega Highway, and have been grading the area just West of the structure. Will they demo it? Who knows. See her before she's gone! Ortega Highway, less than 1 mile East of Antonio Parkway. On the left.
Leaving it as I found it since 1987. |
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SirJinx
    
location:
Los Angeles Area
Gender: Male
| | Re: Obsolete Electrical Building - Ortega Highway. San Juan Capistrano.
<Reply # 1 on 4/1/2009 1:10 AM >
| | | | Awesome Mike.
Love old abandoned buildings out in the boonies.
People are weird. |
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robk700
location:
Los Angeles / D.C.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Obsolete Electrical Building - Ortega Highway. San Juan Capistrano.
<Reply # 2 on 4/1/2009 1:22 AM >
| | | | I need to call these guys about the new alarm system I'm thinking about.
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St. Derek
location:
Somerset, Ma
Gender: Male
| | Re: Obsolete Electrical Building - Ortega Highway. San Juan Capistrano.
<Reply # 3 on 4/1/2009 11:21 PM >
| | | | Nice! Where can I sign up for the security job? Good find!!
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deviantdan4201
location:
Springfield,Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: Obsolete Electrical Building - Ortega Highway. San Juan Capistrano.
<Reply # 4 on 4/2/2009 1:03 AM >
| | | | good stuff, I live reasonably close. Let me know if you plan on a second trip.
By the way... how ever did you defeat the alarm?
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Mike Zombie
location:
Long Beach, CA.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Obsolete Electrical Building - Ortega Highway. San Juan Capistrano.
<Reply # 5 on 4/2/2009 3:22 AM >
| | | | Thanks, everyone.
I've done a ton of recon on a special place, I hope to explore it have some nice stuff in the next few weeks. Just waiting on some tools to arrive.
Posted by deviantdan4201 By the way... how ever did you defeat the alarm?
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I posed as an alarm and high fived it on the way past 
Leaving it as I found it since 1987. |
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insainly sound
location:
Bay Area, CA
Gender: Female
How'd we get here, and how are we getting out of here?!
| |  | Re: Obsolete Electrical Building - Ortega Highway. San Juan Capistrano.
<Reply # 6 on 4/2/2009 2:22 PM >
| | | | Sick site Mike! I doubt it's a substation though, probably some old school 70's phone switch. The generator log was likely their back up generators for the switch.... That's just a guess though...
Check out my photo blog! |
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40miledesertrat
location:
The Sagebrush State
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Obsolete Electrical Building - Ortega Highway. San Juan Capistrano.
<Reply # 7 on 5/9/2009 5:48 PM >
| | | | Good shots.
Thanks
40mile
The Ice Age Made Me The Man That I Am Today
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Shockwave
Gender: Male
| | Re: Obsolete Electrical Building - Ortega Highway. San Juan Capistrano.
<Reply # 8 on 5/11/2009 6:27 PM >
| | | | very cool place
don't talk shit about total |
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