"By 2010, St. Louis will become the first post-Carthage city to lose 65% of its population"

movie theater drive-in signs

former offices, Guess Papers International

lol also wow

...the South China Mall, which opened with great fanfare in 2005, is not just the world’s largest. With fewer than a dozen stores scattered through a space designed to house 1,500, it is also the world’s emptiest – a dusty, decrepit complex of buildings marked by peeling paint, dead light bulbs, and dismembered mannequins.

What sets the South China Mall apart from the rest, besides its mind-numbing size, is that it never went into decline. The tenants didn’t jump ship; they never even came on board. The mall entered the world pre-ruined, as if its developers had deliberately created an attraction for people with a taste for abandonment and decay.

i guess we can't go there this time, huh? but i really want to go there.

hey guess what another slide show
forgotten empty swimming pools

lost america's photo stream too many greats pictures

"photo stream"=gay

myriad...brilliant and unsettling

more abandoned swimming pools

The intenisty of the exposure dose of radiation at 10 km from site is not high. The dose received by us for a day is comparable to what would be received on one transatlantic flight. Greatest danger is risk of inhaling a hot particle, a slice of nuclear fuel from a reactor.

there are a lot of great pictures in that link. here are two
http://www.nuclearflower.com/pripyat/img_9175.jpg
http://www.nuclearflower.com/pripyat/img_9154.jpg

buncha good stuff on http://illicitohio.illicitohio.com/ but i like mike tyson's abandoned mansion most

Two pictures of Paghman Gardens, Afghanistan taken 40 years apart
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/paghmanagardensafghanistan.jpg

here's another from the chernobyl link above, b/c it's amazing

http://www.nuclearflower.com/pripyat/img_9170.jpg

wow there are so many great ones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/images/Donald-Davis/IMG_8000.jpg

wow. someone was telling me about that place recently.
so much weird shit like:
As of the 2000 census, there were 21 people, 10 households, and 7 families residing in the borough. As of March 2004, there were eighteen people residing in nine dwellings.
It is expected that many former residents will return in 2016 to open a time capsule buried in 1966 next to the veterans' memorial.
In 2002, the United States Postal Service revoked Centralia's ZIP code, 17927.

Dehli's MG Road is also destruction. Once upon a time the road gleamed with shopping malls and furniture stores; but two years ago, the government decided that these were illegal constructions necessary to be sealed. “Sealing” in practice means halfhearted bulldozing — enough to discourage inhabitance while creating the impression that you travel to Gurgaon by way of Beirut.

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/collapsed9.jpg

http://weburbanist.com/2008/07/27/abandoned-buildings-property-and-other-places/
http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/cane-hill-1.jpg

what is more terrifying than an abandoned insane asylum nothing

http://raider55.blox.pl/resource/50_prodam_garaz_1.jpg

OLYMPIC FLAVOR
1936 berlin olympic swimming venue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Berlin_Olympic_swimming_venue.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/design/17clim.html
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/manhattanunderthreefeetofwater.jpg

This place was built by an old arms dealer. He was supposedly 'anti-war' yet he constructed this arsenal to store his excess army surpluses in one of the structures then built a smaller castle to reside in. Some of the materials being stored exploded and destroyed parts of the castle. It became vacant and the elements and humans degraded it to what you see in the pictures

The National Gallery's Enlightening Look at the Opulence and Destruction of 'Pompeii'
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/thehomeofMarcusLucretiusFronto.jpg
In 1905 Danish painter Josef Theodore Hansen offered up a view of the interior of the home of Marcus Lucretius Fronto. The villa, like many at Pompeii, was richly adorned with mural-filled walls.

more from gary indiana

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3274/3008871245_b22548f87a_m.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3217/3008871205_48da265951_m.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3242/3009708462_af0566d1b4_m.jpg

http://picasaweb.google.com/floor9/AbandonedPennsylvaniaTurnpike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned_Pennsylvania_Turnpike

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/worldwithoutus.jpg

i love this spooky thread.

The photographs in Asylum were made at the Oregon State Hospital, which was called the Oregon Insane Asylum when it was built in the 1880’s. The images depict rooms in the main building of the facility that have been abandoned since 1965.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3320/3197586830_be23881531_o.jpg

what's terrifying is that some of the facility is still in use

from the same facility, David Maisel produced a work called Library of Dust. beautiful and horrible.

what is more terrifying than an abandoned insane asylum a partially abandoned insane asylum nothing

― lxy, Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:50 PM Bookmark Permalink

cheryl works at western state. i both want to and not ask her about it. bet she's got scary stories

western state is a creepy occupied place. northern state is a creepy unoccupied place.

urban decay is one of my favourite things! when i was a kid there was this spooky building out in a semi-rural town that gave me nightmares: it was probably 10 stories high, but it had no floors - it was hollow - and it had this huge block-lettered sign at the top saying 'SPACE TO LET'. i didn't know what 'let' meant so i assumed there was an 'i' missing and it was actually SPACE TOIILET. i always got a weird feeling when we drove by. i don't even know if it's still there.

http://patrickboland.com.au/project/index.html

http://patrickboland.com.au/project/content/bin/images/large/Cockatoo_VI_277_78_79_80_81Enhancer_Edit.jpg

abandoned polaroid factory (soon to reopen) shot on polaroid
http://www.wallpaper.com/newgallery/17050809/1

oh wow wow wow

http://www.kevinbauman.com/100abandonedhouses/

^detroit btw

nos. 39 & 40 oh my god

all of them oh my god

grand plan go to detroit

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=55704&n_tit=Indians+Flee+Dubai+as+Dreams+Crash++-+Fall+out+of++Economic+Crisis

http://www.mint.com/blog/finance-core/modern-day-ghost-towns-of-abandoned-real-estate/

lot of interesting stuff here

http://www.mechanised.org.uk/

this is a really wonderful story

http://www.mechanised.org.uk/caravan.htm

i like a lot of his work. cool golf pics. i also like his website

yes, simple. elegant.

i really love the interiors w/ the peeling wallpaper.

i don't THINK we have any pics of grey gardens on here, and just cuz it's been overly publicized doesn't mean it's not worth a mention and a look

http://inspirationresource.blogspot.com/2009/06/tuesday_09.html

LOVE the hollow hills article on bldgblog today

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8M1AOlRglSI/SiwSK-AuEyI/AAAAAAAAL3M/_GR5xpiBxsI/s400/leeplaza1.jpg.jpeg

didn't know what grey gardens was except for a thing my co-workers talked on and on about but WOW that house

lol they talked about it cuz it got turned into a musical, huh?

tijiji

http://www.slate.com/id/2213696/

not brilliantly done, but a coupla good pix and a little bit of information. worth a look some time.

chernobyl, abandoned amusement park

there seem to be lots of abandoned amusement parks.

artificial owl, a site dedicated to abandonment

ok, one more: flickr set of spreepark, abandoned amusement park in berlin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakdennis/sets/72157605233495983/

click on the 2nd icon for yet more abandoned swimming pools

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/tokyo-fantasy-images-of-the-apocalypse/

love the shibuya progression

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/maunsell-towers.html

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_heo-zgVA9Nw/Sxfq_op8E8I/AAAAAAAABYE/OumHuqKvHOk/s1600/05.jpg

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/the-burj-dubai-and-architectures-vacant-stare.html

http://www.atimetoget.com/2010/04/it-didnt-use-to-be-like-this.html

<3 that tennis court (and all of them, but that tennis court, man)

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/36844288@N00/4695004115/

recently uncovered posters in unused section on notting hill gate underground station, circa 1959

cool. seth's girlfriend got to go in an nyc passageway that hadn't been opened since the 70s. she said it was a time capsule (and then probably said a bunch of other stuff that didn't make sense)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famagusta#Since_1974