| Posted by ProductOfDetroit |
12/8/2004 5:53 AM | remove |
Awesome, mad props. I enjoyed looking through all of these pictures. Good work
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| Posted by Stewie |
5/16/2005 9:23 PM | remove |
Yah, definetely an interesting location. Good job.
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
5/16/2005 11:35 PM | remove |
Thanks! I'm planning a revisit (part of a UE training session). I hope it's still in good shape, as I'd like to shoot some high resolution photos.
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| Posted by tgsongs |
5/30/2005 3:38 AM | remove |
Great gallery. I feel foolish for anything from Athens striking me as unreal. Being from the Midwest, only learning of Athens in the way it was...it's hard to picture it as your normal city with the same buildings and things. Anyway, I enjoyed this gallery...I really need to get outta the States for a while. haha.
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
5/30/2005 7:24 AM | remove |
Thanks!
Whenever I explore in Athens, I realise just how much UE has in common with archaeology. There are significant archaeological sites that aren't open to the public and I feel *so* tempted to visit them sometimes.
But yes, even Athens has a gritty industrial side. Ancient Athens too -- they discovered some ancient abandonments while boring the Metro tunnels.
Btw, I recommend travelling (not as a tourist, and never as part of a group). Wherever you are, keep an open mind, take the side streets, and it'll do wonders for you.
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| Posted by IIVQ |
5/30/2005 5:51 PM | remove |
I travvelled trough greece for one week with a group of highschool finalists and a greek teacher (as in: he was greek) which was very cool as he knew all the cool tourist-free places.
The funniest thing I saw in Athenswas the gas station called "Burn Oil". (It's at the endpoint of trolley 20, iirc)
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
5/30/2005 8:38 PM | remove |
IIVQ, I remember a comment of yours to that effect (it was a location in Italy, if memory serves). I've never seen 'Burn Oil'. It sounds hilarious. Maybe I can get there tomorrow afternoon, as it's my last day in the country for a while.
Was it an old gas station?
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| Posted by nobody |
5/31/2005 12:50 AM | remove |
Love the b/w pics.
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| Posted by IIVQ |
5/31/2005 6:38 PM | remove |
no, it's a bigger company and they're owned by EKO (or is it EKKO?).
I'll dig up the picture some day, I thought it was right near the end of trolley line 20.
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
5/31/2005 10:46 PM | remove |
Didn't get the chance to go looking for it today and I'm leaving in a few hours. Next time.
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| Posted by Axle |
8/6/2005 10:50 PM | remove |
awesome work there, nice job
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
8/20/2005 3:50 PM | remove |
Thanks!
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| Posted by Seldom |
8/25/2005 1:10 AM | remove |
Thanks for these awesome pictures, it looks like a really interesting site!
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
8/26/2005 9:40 PM | remove |
Thank you! I was there again last May, and it hadn't changed much. A bit of graffiti here, a bit of vandalism there -- the big picture was more or less the same.
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| Posted by OptFlv |
2/13/2006 1:40 AM | remove |
Great photos! Thanks for sharing.
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| Posted by everybodyknows |
1/22/2008 6:40 PM | remove |
"they discovered some ancient abandonments while boring the Metro tunnels."
my dad has told me that it's near impossible for construction companies in greece to break ground without finding artifacts. and as you posted, that does seem to be the case.
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
1/23/2008 8:21 AM | remove |
In downtown Athens, you're digging through 3,500 years of people's building, dumping etc. You simply can't NOT find something. That provides for some interesting exploration on its own. :)
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