Abandonment
General Ship – Trips 2 – 9
I am definitely a person who enjoys and needs solitude, and General Ship became my refuge for quite some time. When my wife and I weren’t going out to eat or doing something on Friday or Saturday night, I would grab a six pack and head down to General Ship. There, I would basically sit…
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General Ship – Trip 1
General Ship & Engine Works was founded by Byron Carl Hedblom in East Boston at the beginning of the Great Depression. Mr. Hedblom had, coincidentally (at least as far as this site is concerned), been an employee of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation before a dispute with management caused him to part ways with his former employer. General…
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Polaroid Trips 12 – 14
My last few trips to Polaroid uncovered a few interesting areas that I hadn’t seen yet and some equipment I hadn’t noticed on my previous trips. It was a place that delivered great exploring and great pictures right up until the end. The campus has been redeveloped in to a shopping center now, with only…
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Horatio Q. DeSantis State School
As I write this in 2020, it has been such an incredibly long time since I have been to this place, or really done any serious exploring, that it feels ridiculous to give this place a fake name. It’s well known. However, it is the subject of a fair amount of hand wringing in the…
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Polaroid Trips 7 – 11
At some point, bringing other people to see Polaroid and just going for fun started to become a reason to go, rather than just trying to photograph. On these trips, I visited the main office building. It was probably the most empty and least interesting building on campus. However, the windowed cafeteria sitting right along…
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