Inside the abandoned 'ghostscrapers' that litter America

[Liberal_in_LA]

more haunting pictures at link below

It is a story only too familiar in many cities in many states around America, where futuristic skyscrapers once rose out of dreams but stand desolate and abandoned, creating eyesores, dangerous conditions and a place for the city's homeless to rest their weary heads.


MCS Book Depository: Designed by Albert Kahn, originally as a Post Office for the city of Detroit, this large, four-story structure later served as storage for the Detroit Public School System


Hospital: Psychiatric Ward of Kings Park Psychiatric Centre in New York, which operated from 1885 until 1996


California: Inside the Vandenberg Tracking Station, the $60million common-user satellite ground station which replaced a 35-year old antenna and associated electronics nearing obsolescence


Lifeless: Vacant and abandoned Lee Plaza Hotel Living Room in Detroit, Michigan. Constructed in 1929 and deserted in the early 1990s

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024739/Falling-sky-Inside-abandoned-ghostscrapers-litter-America.html#ixzz1Ukmb61jy

[marions ghost]

1. haunting

n/t

[handmade34]

2. Wow... photos are amazing

such stories...

[immoderate]

3. And you rightly point out the great vision...

"Photography" means drawing with light.

--imm

[surrealAmerican]

4. Beautiful photos.

[lpbk2713]

5. And they aren't all in the Rust Belt.

That ought to be an eye opener for some folks.

[Taverner]

7. Jonathan Haeber has an excellent series on the Pac Bell Building in SF and...

The Key Building in Oakland

Call me crazy, but I find his work tragically beautiful

[lpbk2713]

8. Too costly to maintain and too costly to tear down.

They were proud center pieces of their communities in their day. Damn shame.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. found it online! Thanks.

[Taverner]

6. Jonathan Haeber is a brilliant photographer

Completely amazing stuff

Visionary, even

[Demoiselle]

9. These are wonderful pictures...Another collection you might consider..

"Ghosts in the Wilderness," Tony and Eva Worobiec...Stunning black and white photos of abandoned farmhouses, churches, schools, tractors, diners, grain elevators, interiors, exteriors, taken in Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska , Colorado and Wyoming. Beautiful and painful at the same time.
Apparently the American Dream has died before.

[indurancevile]

11. dies every 30 years, about once or twice every generation.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Dupe...removing

[WillyT]

12. K & R !!!

:kick:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. The Romans left better ruins when it was their turn came to collapse. Ours are just tacky.

"America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization." - Oscar Wilde

[Xithras]

16. Iv'e been to one of those sites, and it has me scratching my head a bit.

The Colberg Boat Works facility in Stockton is neither abandoned or a skyscraper. Colbergs huge boat building facility went out of business long ago, but the site is a collection of sheds, warehouses and low one and two story buildings. Most of the land and buildings are now used by other small businesses, mostly for boat storage, repair, and that sort of thing (that's why I've been there...a friend keeps his delta cruiser stored there in the off season).

While there are a couple of small old office buildings that are rotting away, they're pretty unspectacular, and you could probably find similar buildings in any city in America.

[Taverner]

17. It's not what's there, but how the light teases and plays with the colors that he captures