More Abandoned Places

[mr.brownfella]

This thread is amazing. Also shows how much waste, we got here in this country. A lot of beautiful building just go to waste. Still, progress we must move on.

Thanks Godfather

[Bob Wehadababyitsboy]

Owen J. "Donie" Bush Stadium is the name of a stadium formerly used by minor league baseball team Indianapolis Indians in Indianapolis, Indiana. Its street address is 1501 West 16th Street. It was home to the Indianapolis Indians, who have operated at the highest level of minor league ball for many decades, in three different leagues: American Association, Pacific Coast League and International League. It was also home to a few Negro League teams, as well as a Continental Football League team, the Indianapolis Capitols, who won the league championship in 1969.

[Bob Wehadababyitsboy]

[Bob Wehadababyitsboy]

[Bob Wehadababyitsboy]

[Bob Wehadababyitsboy]

The Keystone Towers built in 1974 by local developer George Ginger were originally designed to be an office and apartment complex. After some financial difficulties and being sold from one developer to another, the property has spent its time vacant and decaying since 2001.

Slowly crumbling away, we found that the only residents vacating these towering buildings nowadays are the homeless, disenfranchised, and gang members.

Just getting to the upper level proved to be quite a skill as many of the concrete steps have since fallen out of the spiraling stair case. Atop the pea gravel deck, smashed tv's and broken glass litter the entire area. Poorly crafted graffiti is scribbled along the buildings and in the rooms calling out who's turf these apartments belong too.

We approached the sliding glass window of one of the apartments to find a medium size knife sitting aside the door. A very welcoming sign. Inside sat a molded mattress, some garbage and a few shopping carts. The walls molded and weathered from years of battling the elements.

It took some courage and a few 40's to wander up the inside stair well. Every few levels we would run into Bum Alarms. This is a common tactic for warning of intruders in areas that are inhabited by squatters. A well placed upside down shopping cart blocking the path. In order to proceed further you have to move it, thus creating plenty of noise to loudly echo thru out the cavernous stair well and promptly notifying any squatters that you are coming their way.

Because of this, we made no effort to venture into any of the hallways. I could only imagine some gangly crack head jumping from a doorway with a large knife and chasing us out or stabbing us to death. Neatly hiding the bodies in one of the hundreds of apartment rooms were no one will be looking for years, if ever.

[Bob Wehadababyitsboy]

[Bob Wehadababyitsboy]

The only large scale brewery in New Orleans, the Dixie Brewing Company was established in 1907. The brewery resides in the 3rd ward of the city and was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina. After the storm many efforts took place to try and restore the brewery. But to this day it still sits vacant, just as it did the day after the storm.

[Bob Wehadababyitsboy]

[Bob Wehadababyitsboy]

A far cry from it's former self. Dixie Square Mall first opened in 1965, but is most known for being the backdrop of the infamous mall chase scene in the movie "The Blues Brothers".

It has now sit vacant for 30 years and the signs of age are showing. The floor is covered in a milky soup of decaying ceiling tiles and the few walls that remained decorated in graffiti