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Check Out ‘Haunting’ Videos of Dead Industrial Areas
- Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:30pm by
Liz Klimas
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Maybe these videos don’t have gore or ghouls, but the ghosts of a once thriving industrial segments of our society do give off an eerie feeling, especially when you image them once bustling with activity.
Wired pulled the videos together from various sources to record “the decay of historical towns and buildings, documenting the waste, pollution and other excesses of our industrialized past.”
Here is the current state of the New York Port Authority Grain Terminal filmed Charles le Brigand:
U.S. Navy building abandoned in the 1970s:
Always a classic: the abandoned hospital. This one is in Gary, Indiana, a once thriving industrial town:
Wired has more videos documenting the eeriness of abandoned buildings. See them here.
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rockstone
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 1:29pmKruschev’s dream.
Report Post »Goldoxide
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 12:43pmPerot was right.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 11:18amSoon all of America will be a ghost town………………
Report Post »OhCanada
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:14pmHi,
Thanks for the kind words. I live in Alberta OIL Country….THE KEYSTONE PROJECT!
20,000 jobs to the US directly. 7 Billon Canadian dollars into the US…..
Your Sister from the North!
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:00pmThe good news is that eventually all the Progressives will end up converting to Capitalism. The same degeneration of manufacturing happened in European history. After early European economies went sour because of loss of jobs and income the elite finally brought manufacturing back to their economies. The human race learns eventually over a long period of time. The sad news is when the knowledge is hidden from our eyes and is kept from us as young adults by the corrupt. Remember, these people that are fueling the end of Capitalism are making huge profits. Maybe this so called revolution is all about the control of power which is the control of knowledge. It is ironic that these occupiers of wall street listen to radicals like Soros and Van Jones without wondering that these fellas are part of the one percenter’s as well. I guess if you remove the ability for people to think for themselves in early childhood education then as adults they are easily influenced into incoherent doctrines based off of violence, greed and laziness instead of doctrines based on self empowerment.
Report Post »LouC57
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 6:14pmSomeone (dontbotherme) beat me to it…very reminiscent of Atlas Shrugged (good lord that’s a tedious book…Ayn could have cut that sucker in 1/2 and made it a thousand times more powerful). Sad to say if these foolish “progressives” get their way, we’ll see MUCH more of this, much more poverty, much more “nothing”.
Report Post »God Save Capitalism. It’s the ONLY way to go–even with all it’s warts and occasional greedy buggers. Point is, Capitalism’s the only way one can build their own life with minimal government interference–IF we can dump a ton of new regulations put forth by idiots in DC who’ve never worked at a real job in their miserable lives.
OhCanada
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:41pmHere in Canada we have companies that have PROFITable businesses that clean these places up.
Report Post »Farm land is used for the cement and natural products, and the metal and glass all get re-cycled, shipped by trains and sold.
Did I say they were VERY PROFITABLE,
LouC57
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 6:20pmHi OhCanada,
Report Post »We still have profitable businesses, but I get your point. I hope America can pull out of this mess we’re in. It’s a good thing we have good geographical neighbors.
nick7
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:30pmThat is, good NORTHERN GEOGRAPHICAL NEIGHBORS.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:19pmLook for the union label.
Report Post »Jackpine Savage
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:36pmYou got it 100% correct.
Here in MI, the unions have completely destroyed manufacturing, destroyed the cities and destroyed the opportunity to make things better. Of course, our new Governor hasn’t worked out as planned, he‘s so intent on giving us a bridge to Canada that we don’t want that he’s talking about tripling the cost of license plates to pay for it.
Report Post »I thought he was supposed to be a Conservative, he’s nearly as bad as Granholm was.
dontbotherme
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:25pmThis is eerily reminiscent of Atlas Shrugged & The Book of Eli. Government regulations & “takers” keep stealing the work and production of others & this is what you get. Think of the memories & “ghosts” that these remnants of what once was, hold in the walls & floors. Who was the last to touch the handrails, the equipment; who was the last to look out the windows; who was the last to sweep the floors; who was the last to turn around, and look one more time, inside the building(s) & remember the sounds & faces of the workers busy at their jobs & now see only ghosts. Who locked the doors & walked away in silence? When I see the remains of a long abandoned homesteads or industrial buildings as I travel this country I often wonder of the thoughts of the last ones to be walking within. This is a part of our true history.
Report Post »LovingAmerica
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:54amOkay, so this is bad. It is like staring into an empty grave – devastating and depressing. But, this is America! What has happened is in the past. We always have the future! We have today AND we can change all this. It is time to roll up our sleeves, clean this mess up and get to work! Just look at all the scrap metal? Tons of scrap metal! Look at all the people we could put to work tearing down these delipaded buildings. Now, let’s find a way to bring jobs back from overseas. We know how to do that in Washington if we can only get our Congressional leaders and President Obama to OBEY the American Citizens. It is too eary to give up in defeat. Way too early. Just look at the possibilities!!! Lets be positive examples for our children and build UP their future – make it bright and shiny! There is always tomorrow. And… God is Good.
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:25pmWow this is pretty stupid.
Report Post »Several images of the same damn thing.
Denmerls
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:13amWell said, SGTB.
Report Post »Jas0n
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:24amWait until the super committee fails to come to an agreement. Every Navy base will look like that.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:18amWelcome to Detroit everybody………
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:50amThe Navy leases it’s bases. It doesn’t “own” the land, in most cases. When the Navy leaves an area the land goes back to the locals. Of course, the economy suffers a bit. It does sort of make you wonder though, what the heck the EPA is thinking? Or does it just cash employment checks and go home?
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 7:34amit is because democraps think government can produce, all the government can do is take money from one place and give it to another!!!! they can produce government waste though
Report Post »Ironbalut
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 6:45amBrought to you by your social Democrats and local union thugs.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:10amBingo.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:03amDon’t forget that the Republicans have been striving to create a larger Government as well. Even though Reagan did cut the funding on alot of federal bureaucracts and ended several agencies or consolidated them, he also took on more debt toward the end of his term and then both Bushes made gov’t bigger.
The two party system is a duopoly and akin to the duopoly seen between coke and pepsi. They each have their consumers who will not or prefer not to have the other, but in the end, all parties who partake of either are only getting brown water, carbonated, flavored, and laden with corn syrup. It is the same with the parties. Each has its followers and each claim to want something different, but all we get is bigger gov’t from each.
The only candidate to vote for in this situation is Ron Paul. He is the only one who is against a larger government and the only one who would dare to reduce it in size.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:09amWe the people let it happen. We voted the establishment democrats and republicans into office. We let them write the laws. It is easy to point fingers at someone else, but it was us, we, that created the problem. Now do we have the stamina and will to change it?
Report Post »DYNA
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:44amWhat makes any society think they can consume without producing? A nations prosperity cannot be built on lawyers, tattoo parlors, news media, the arts, Hollywood and pawn shops. Even health care does not directly create new wealth.
Report Post »How can a nation defend itself without an industrial base in an increasingly hostile world?
There is only true creativity in developing and producing tangibles. Americans are not going to
“entertainment” their way to success. You end up with a people that can’t do anything.
DYNA
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:54amApparently the list of those that do not necessarily produce anything includes “educators and politicians / bureaucrats.
Report Post »Discord
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 7:33amHow boring.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:34amLooks like Ron Paul in a couple of those videos.
Report Post »voodoolife
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:33amThe EPA must be proud…
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