THE GALLERY of favorite abandoned places pics... post your cool / wierd pics here...

[pepperj]

Have also a load of photos that are on three hard drives that have to put over to this operating system, slides, and printed photos, so many things to do-so little time.

 

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[ARC]

Have also a load of photos that are on three hard drives that have to put over to this operating system, slides, and printed photos, so many things to do-so little time.

I was just saying the same thing... heh...
Slides and photos...

I have been "inspired" to kinda gravitate toward setting it up on dining room table and "process" more.

Should be done by next year :P

 

[BosnMate]

All the above photo's were taken by me at the Ghost Town of Bodie, California.
High Rock Canyon in Nevada.

The wreck of the Peter Iredale, mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon.

Battery Russel, Fort Stephens, Mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon

 

[BosnMate]

South Pass, Wyoming.

 

[Clay Slayer]

Belle Grove Plantation...

I have an affection for abandoned plantations in the south and have a pretty good collection of photos. Here's a good example...


All photos taken in the 1930s (WPA project), except the last one which was taken in 1952 after the fire finished the destruction of the structure. Plantation was built 1852 to 1857 at a cost of $80,000 (roughly $2.4 million today) and had 75 rooms. The plantation sat on over 7,000 acres and had a 3/4 mile Mississippi River frontage near White Castle, Louisiana and produced over half a million pounds of sugar each year. After the Civil War the economy collapsed and the house and property was divided and sold off. There were attempts to restore the home, but the Great Depression and World War II intervened. It sat abandoned for almost 100 years before a fire completely destroyed the structure (see the last photo).

 

[ARC]

That first picture looks straight outta the Texas chainsaw massacre... heh

Cool pics.

 

[T.C.]

Where you at BosnMate??

 

[T.C.]

Here's some pics of the Berry Ranch in Lake County, Orygun....grass is too high to detect!!

 

[BosnMate]

Where you at BosnMate??

Roseburg, Don't get down your way anymore.

 

[fowledup]

Very cool thread, wish I had the time, money, and where with all to restore about 3/4's of those places.

 

[cw0909]

i have 2 cuz looking for pics of the house i posted, b4 it fell to ruin
i had a lot but a fire and 2 floods over the last 35 yr,have taken all
my pics,8mm, 35slides, books ect. hopefully there moms and dads
pics are still around

 

[T.C.]

Hell, we're almost neighbors!! Looks like you love that "high desert" also...

Roseburg, Don't get down your way anymore.

 

[BosnMate]

Hell, we're almost neighbors!! Looks like you love that "high desert" also...

Love the high dessert. My health isn't the best, but worse than that my wife has Alzheimer's disease, so I'm pretty much stuck at home, haven't been to the desert for
for several years now. Camped on Wagon Tire Mountain about 4 years ago, and that would be the last time.

An abandoned cow camp on the high desert.

Lost creek, western flank of Wagon Tire Mtn. -- Glass Buttes in the distance.

Obsidian on Wagon Tire mountain.

Camp was up in the trees. Obsidian in the creek. Point was at the edge of the road. You can see where fresh flakes have been broken out from cars running over it.

Here we are in camp. I found a 1927 Wheat. Back around the turn of the century there was a still located at this spring, but I found mostly modern junk, including bunches of modern bullets.


These are probably old abandoned homesteads.

A little rain and the desert blooms.

 

[mick56]

In Central Wisconsin, a friend of mine owns some farmland with this old stone house on it. It has been vacant for about 20 years. I detected around it and found a couple of wheats. The walls are 2 feet thick!

 

[T.C.]

Wow!! Great pictures BosnMate!! Sorry to hear about your wife....just look at your pictures and remember the "good times."

 

[Msbeepbeep]

All those pictures are great! Very relaxing scrolling thru them, make ya want to grab the detector and go searching.

 

[ARC]

You know... out of all the places I have detected over all this time.

I have never detected "high desert"...

is this like a pot brownie :P
J/k

Um... would love to detect the west...
I grew up on all the MD magazines... and even read "true west"...
And "Western Treasures"...

When I was pre teen...
Grandpa and grandma took me for a drive... from Illinois to Colorado... to meet some "gold relatives"
When we got there I slept in the garage on cots with my cousins...
I laid there all night wide awake anticipating the next days...
The first day they took me by modified Jeep to a Gold mine ghost town wayyyyyyy up hidden in the mountains...
Was so friggin cool...
Was blown away...
There was a pit they dug for "bathing"...
The water was "crystal"...
I could see tons of old bottles...
I wanted to dive in and get them... but was freezing cold...
Was snow there year round it was so "high up"...
Bullet holes in everything...
Old stuff everywhere...
Found all kinds of bullets... shells and nails... no gold...
Could not stay long... weather was changing and had to get off mountain...
Parts of the trail were so treacherous that we had to lean out of jeep ... partly from fear... and mostly for an "edge" on the balance on cliffs.

I actually have pics of this "gold town"...
On slides still as well...

Those slides are starting to bug me now.
Must dig em out and get digitizing.

 

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[Dave N Japan]

 

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