History teacher, explorer, photographer, podcaster and lover of all things odd, weird and strange! #urbex http://instagram.com/mr.p_explores "Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ooL4cp95ckRZjnbq6q7Z7?si=b1688e18af12439
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The abandoned Dunes Motel on Route 66, just outside of Barstow, California. Once a stopping point for travelers along the "Mother Road," this small motel now sits vacant under the intense desert sun, waiting for occupants that will never come. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #Route66
Baker is oddly full of sound. Lots of people get off there to get gas and food and stop at the Alien Beef Jerky place. I-10 roars right past it. But you're not wrong. Elsewhere out there, its quiet as all get out.
Studies of an abandoned service garage and gas station on the outskirts of Baker, California. Once a place where one would fuel up before continuing on to Las Vegas or Barstow, it now sits like a lonesome sentinel, watching the world go by. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #California
Was my thought as well.
It does blow the mind...
Thanks for the share!!!
Such a waste to be sitting there like that.
Thanks so much!
Thank you!
A new episode of "Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road" on Spotify, Apple and Amazon Podcasts! In this episode, part one of a triumphant return to Southern California to explore abandoned ruins of the Mojave Desert and beyond! Drop in and have a listen! -Mr. P. #abandoned #urbex #California #MrPExplores
Light and shadow perspectives inside an abandoned and roofless auto shop in the Bronx, New York City. The sun was hitting this place perfectly to provide this unique situation that day! #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #NYC #Bronx #exploration
Wrecked and rusted, but still old beauties; forgotten cars found in Bombay Beach, California, now a part of an outsider art installation known as the Bombay Beach Drive In. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #BombayBeach #SaltonSea #automobiles
I wish I would have seen this earlier! Never had the time to send anything. Thanks for the link, though!!!
A decaying and rust-encrusted old factory, abandoned since the 1990's, in Ohio. Once making synthetic fabrics, this massive plant now crumbles to the ground, brick by brick. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #industrial #exploration #factory
An abandoned cafe in the near-abandoned town of Desert Center, California. Once a thriving and bustling eatery where truck drivers and weary vacationers could stop for meatloaf and apple pie, it now stands open and slowly decaying in the desert heat. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography
HA! Right? I remember seeing that one there the first go round!
Thank you for the share!!!
Most welcome! It is indeed! All sorts of event spaces as well!
I loved the lines of it too! Very neat design!
So, so many! And they pop up when you least expect it, too. Usually in the middle of absolute nowhere!
Thank you very much for the share! I appreciate it!
A forgotten laboratory inside an abandoned Rust Belt fabrics plant, that once helped the US will World War II. Materials were developed here that allowed for synthetic cloths of all kinds; abandoned in the 1990's. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #industrial
An abandoned warehouse, possible machine shop in a dead town somewhere in the Mojave Desert. No idea what this place might have been used for, but it seems they were working on the shells of old decommissioned diesel train engines? Your guess is as good as mine! #abandoned #urbex #photography
Thank you!!!
Thank you so much!
Indeed. Desert Center comes to mind.
It's very mixed. Here's the website; you can get an idea of all that is there! www.russellindustrialcenter.com
Thank you!
Sadly, the swingset seems to be no more, or at least not in the water anymore. I suspect things shift around quite often there.
A few choice selections from a recent revisit to the eerily desolate and serene silence of Bombay Beach, California at golden hour. The "Drive In" there, an amazing outsider art installation, features old and rusting automobiles galore. #abandoned #urbex #BombayBeach #photography #California
Thank you so much!
It's a sad realization that things are this bad now. So many factories are like this now.
It was all rebuilt in the early 2000's, but I think they went retro in the design.
A lot of them are now business spaces. It's a cool, cool place.
Oddly, no. It's right off the I-15.
The insides were even worse...
Thank you!
Low methane beans? 😜
It's quite a sight to see out there in the desert.
Thank you so much!
A sun-bleached and abandoned diner somewhere in the Mojave Desert between Los Angeles, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. One a place for weary travelers to stop and have a quick meal, this place is now a gutted reminder of what once was... #abandoned #urbex #photography #EastCoastKin #California
The abandoned wreckage of what was once the Lake Delores Water Park, midway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Once a crystal-clear chlorinated tourist destination, not all that one can hear is the wind and the moan of the nearby Interstate. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #California
It was so hot, I doubt I would have cared!
It WAS a little potent, but we couldn't smell it after awhile!
So much of it!!!
Thanks! SO many lines and textures here!
A look at an abandoned factory outside of Jackson, Michigan; fire, decay and entropy at work on slowly tearing down this behemoth, one brick at a time. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #Michigan
Right? Imagine how it would be brushing teeth in there every morning!!!
Nope. Sadly, we did not spend long there. The heat and the sun were too much. 117+. We'll be back in the winter!
I got over-charged on sun when I was there! By the time I got used to 100+ degree weather and withering sun, I had to come back to humidity and overcast. lol
I did, mostly. I had to drink a LOT of Gatorade.
NYC is probably one of the craziest places I've been. Almost overwhelming to a photographer who is looking for shots at every turn. lol
Thanks very much! Nope, definitely the more cantankerous Atlantic!
And even crazier when you hear a train pass by up above you!
Very much so. Bigger than anywhere else I've ever been, even in LA.
Haven't even unpacked my SD card yet. Slept for almost 12 hours when I got back home! It was that good of a trip!😁
Dim recesses and lit up spaces inside and out at the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit, Michigan. While much of this vast old automobile plant now houses businesses and studios, much is still as empty as the day it closed. #abandoned #urbex #windows #scape #EastCoastKin #Detroit #industrial
And just like that, over three and half hours in a mindblowing distance up in the sky, I went from mountains, sage, and 117-degree weather of southwest desert, back to the damp, wet and humid green of Northeast Ohio. An amazing trip with SO many photographic opportunities; can't wait to share!
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Dying out here! At East Jesus currently. Pounding Gatorades!!!
Off the grid for three days in Southern California, exploring desert abandonment and falling in love with the desert all over again. Some phone shots from Bombay Beach, on the Salton Sea. #abandoned #outsiderart #BombayBeach #SaltonSea #California #photography #urbex #EastCoastKin
My old Nikon D750.
Catchin' the train; Surf Avenue at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, on a cloudy summer morning in July. Being from Ohio, the concept of elevated trains like this were something I could not pass up. #architecture #urbex #train #NYC #ConeyIsland #photography #EastCoastKin
Agreed! I couldn't NOT shoot them!
Thanks! It's one of my favorite spots now!
More of the gritty magic that is Coney Island (Brooklyn, NYC) in the summer morning hours; serenity as only this place can bring it. Before the crowds, when the whole place reveals its secrets, when the energy is flowing and you can feel it. #ConeyIsland #NYC #Urbex #streetscenes #photography
This song...this song hits me in the deepest of feels. Loss. Nostalgia. The earliest parts of driving long distance in the dark before dawn.
The grimy and silent remains of an abandoned power plant in the Rust Belt. Once fueling the productivity of an entire city's worth of industrial endeavors, this plant is now still, silent and drowsing in the echoes of what once was. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #industrial #factory
Sadly, its one of those things that go hand in hand with abandonment. Entropy kicks in and humans are ALWAYS a part of that.
Exactly right. The freezer system for the ice.
Because our culture is based on throw-away. We always clamor for the new, but never cherish or take care of the old. We seemingly hate our history, in exchange for the latest glossy and shiny fad.
😁
Thank you so much!
I'm sure they've been here. It's seen a lot of traffic. And sadly, some of that traffic has done serious damage to the place. Including arson.
Shifts in economy, shifts in what families wanted to do. Instead of going local, they all wanted to fly and go abroad. Sad, but I suppose it happens.
The "Borscht Belt" fell apart in the 2000's. It became cheaper to go abroad and the resorts became less popular. They all began to fall apart without the old numbers of people that used to visit.
Not my photo, but this was it when it was open.
A mélange of photos from a long abandoned ice skating rink, part of a larger abandoned resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Once, this place was booming with honeymooning couples, but now, silence and decay... #abandoned #urbex #NewYork #EastCoastKin #BlueSKyArtShow #photography #resort
Thank you for the share!
The rusting superstructure of a massive railroad bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on a bright early-summer day. The light and shadows down beneath were exquisite. #architecture #urbex #railroad #bridge #EastCoastKin #photography #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania
It would be a wild ride!
Not a problem! Would love to see the results!
It DOES look that way!
I'm just glad someone stepped in to turn it into a landmark you can tour. Saved from destruction.
Thanks very much! I try to get to Carrie at least once a year!
The massive gantry crane at what remains of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Carrie Furnace, once a part of the long defunct US Steel plant there. #abandoned #urbex #carriefurnace #EastCoastKin #photography #industrial #factory #steel #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania
It was something amazing to see!
It was truly gorgeous!
As a teacher, it breaks my heart.
Very much so. And it doesn't look like it's getting any better...
Sadly, a statement. Symbolic of how our country appreciates and supports public schooling.
Such a beautiful house, too! The rest was amazing as well!
It really is. I've never seen anything like it since.
Thank you! A true work of art.
It's pretty far off the beaten path. Not in the usual urban scrapping territories.
It was truly a work of art! Thanks much!
Very much so!
One of my favorite buildings of all time!
And lots of 'em!