This was the last location visited on my last trip to the USA - and a real cracker if a little bit of a massive deathtrap in most of it.
What made walking around this place so fun was that you never knew whether a floor that looked perfectly solid was actually about to plunge you to your death. The term 'weetabix floors' has never been so appropriate. The thin layers of floor tiles do a fantastic job of hiding just how outrageously rotten the joists and floorboards are in here and so there really is a sort of 'designated path' trodden through in the dust that you kind of have to keep to for the most part to avoid the high chance of a swift disappearing act into the rooms below. That's not to say we didn't live a little dangerously, in fact to get to the better stuff here requires it as a few key parts of the service tunnels have been blocked by collapsed floors and debris. There were a few moments where I thought to myself how I really couldn't afford to injure myself on my last full day in the USA but all was well at the end.
Everything went a bit tits up at the end of the explore but it's a long and pretty dull story, lets just say I was very close to losing it at a couple of the 'friends' I was with after we spent over an hour and a half trying to find a way into the auditorium building using the service tunnels, and after going round in circles for what seemed like forever I was totally fed up. It takes a lot to get me to that point, but especially as it was my last full day on holiday I couldn't afford to waste time.
The decayed buildings, whilst mostly empty are stunningly beautiful and very photogenic for the majority. Unfortunately the former admin block was heavily modernised and filled with awful tagging which was a shame. Plus I never did see the hall...
I wish I'd taken some exterior photos but I was so pissed off by the time we left I couldn't be bothered!
What made walking around this place so fun was that you never knew whether a floor that looked perfectly solid was actually about to plunge you to your death. The term 'weetabix floors' has never been so appropriate. The thin layers of floor tiles do a fantastic job of hiding just how outrageously rotten the joists and floorboards are in here and so there really is a sort of 'designated path' trodden through in the dust that you kind of have to keep to for the most part to avoid the high chance of a swift disappearing act into the rooms below. That's not to say we didn't live a little dangerously, in fact to get to the better stuff here requires it as a few key parts of the service tunnels have been blocked by collapsed floors and debris. There were a few moments where I thought to myself how I really couldn't afford to injure myself on my last full day in the USA but all was well at the end.
Everything went a bit tits up at the end of the explore but it's a long and pretty dull story, lets just say I was very close to losing it at a couple of the 'friends' I was with after we spent over an hour and a half trying to find a way into the auditorium building using the service tunnels, and after going round in circles for what seemed like forever I was totally fed up. It takes a lot to get me to that point, but especially as it was my last full day on holiday I couldn't afford to waste time.
The decayed buildings, whilst mostly empty are stunningly beautiful and very photogenic for the majority. Unfortunately the former admin block was heavily modernised and filled with awful tagging which was a shame. Plus I never did see the hall...
I wish I'd taken some exterior photos but I was so pissed off by the time we left I couldn't be bothered!
