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Willard Elementary School
My friend and I took a bit of a side-trip without the locals to check out Willard Elementary School a.k.a. Highland Park Bright Center for Adult Education. Detailed history is available at Nailhed’s site so I won’t try to recreate it here. You never know what you will get with abandoned buildings. I wasn’t expecting…
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Fort Wayne
A good friend of mine worked at Fort Wayne, so naturally we wanted to swing by to visit the historic fort when we were out in Detroit.
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Eastern State Penitentiary
Eastern State Penitentiary is a historic prison that is now open to the public. It is definitely worth a visit if you are in Philadelphia!
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Jackson Sanatorium
Regarded as one of the easiest explores around, naturally we were spotted on the way in and ejected by the police. The officer was very nice to us and called the owner to see if they were willing to let us go. This is one time where having a massive amount of camera equipment with…
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Polaroid Trips 5 & 6
Polaroid trips 5 and 6 were focused on the power plant. It was a small building, but lots of fun to explore and a few of my favorite pictures of the place came from here.
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Horatio Alger Center for the Mentally Impaired
Just a couple shots. This is one of those places that is very very epic, but also tricky to pull good shots from. The woodwork we saw was astonishing, though. Tons of fun visiting this one.
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Augusta Tissue
This tissue paper mill closed down under somewhat shady circumstances after changing owners several times. The mill was even held by the federal government for a time while the courts worked out what to do with some of the contested assets. During this time the mill was well secured and an extremely risky place to…
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Polaroid Trips 3 & 4
Trip 3 to Polaroid was when I managed to reach most of the machines that were still left behind, probably the coolest parts of Polaroid. Trip 4 to Polaroid was when I reached the power plant, which was small but very photogenic!
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Polaroid – Trip 1 & 2
POLAROID!! Polaroid, Polaroid, Polaroid! SNOWLAROID? Someone once asked me, accusingly, if I was an explorer or a re-explorer. In other words, did I explore places that other people hadn’t been to (since they were abandoned), or did I just get a bunch of information off the internet and visit places that were well known. Polaroid…
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