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< Reply # 1321 on 11/18/2019 7:20 AM >
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Oh, you know...
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Oh, Joyous Travels
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I wandered till the stars went dim.
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Gary Indiana, an industrial mecca of a city and once gleaming poster child of an urban metropolis as synonymous with the rise of the great American steel factories as it is with the spiraling decline of the once massive industry. So prosperous was the United States steel industry that The City of Gary's soul was essentiality engraved into the very metal it produced, receiving its namesake from Elbert Henry Gary, a founding chairman of United States Steel Corporation. For decades The Steel City thrived, happily surfing along the wave of jobs and the bustling economy that steel supported, quickly rising to become one of the largest cities and economies along what is now referred to as the Rust Belt region of the United States. However, as the value of steel began to destabilize beginning in the 1970's, the economic wave quickly began to sputtered into mere ripples before drying up and leaving behind a soulless city, lost within a maze of empty streets and vacant buildings abandoned by the very people who had been forsaken by the once plethora of factory jobs which dried up as quickly as the industry itself.

Amazingly, much of the original steel infrastructure including numerous steel factories still pump out product to this very day along the south shores of Lake Michigan. However much remains in a state of entropy too. Corroded steel stacks and long silent blast furnaces continue to reach skyward, having become a permanent etch into the skyline of Gary. Long gone however are the days when these same factories used to employ people by the thousands. Gone are the sounds of slag trains and coal cars screeching along miles of railroad track and endless plumes of black smoke billowing into the air, emanating from the hundreds of stacks piercing the sky like narrow needles. Today just a small puff of smoke hangs over the horizon as the remaining steel industry barely survives, existing in stark contrast, a shadow of decrepit buildings standing like rusty skeletons against the open sky. A haunting reminder of what happens when a city reliant on a single industry collapses around the very people who once supported it.

Much like an individual person without passion, this city with its soul now ripped from its very foundation had now found itself without purpose. As Gary struggled with the loss of steel, its once bustling streets, buildings, and remaining citizens drifted into a seemingly permanent state of decay. Left behind by the absence of industry was a massive void which naturally found itself becoming filled with greed, corruption, drugs, and violence. It is import to remember that Gary is not inherently bad, nor are the people who live and work within its borders. However, Gary is hurting and with such pain often follows suffering and abuse. And that is just what happened to Gary for many years following the collapse of Big Steel, Gary was used an abused. From greedy politicians, underlying corrupt politics, and a public eye that often refused to face the daunting problems holding back the city from being able to transform into something new.

Such blatant corruption brings me to a story about waste and greed as captured by the above picture. A typical image of a crumbling, long abandoned warehouse, so nondescript and unassuming that it has nearly become swallowed up and forgotten within a densely overgrown field of weeds and new growth trees which have grown into a natural fence like perimeter around the building. This warehouse with an industrial history was once lined with machines and presses designed to punch out thousands of screws, bolts, nuts, and various other metal fasteners. Today, those machines are long gone, replaced instead with dozens and dozens of piles of discarded clothes and garments, so molded over and rotten that it is often impossible to discern a pair of pants from a shirt, for the entire pile has clumped together like a giant disgusting mound of shit, often wreaking similarly so. What has now degraded into nothing more than musty cubes of mold once started out as donated clothing destined to make their way to third world countries such as Uganda and Liberia, to be recycled and reused. However, the picture already gives away the corrupt ending, for the clothes now rot within what can perhaps be considered a third world city.

The cloth piles can be linked to a nonprofit called, Gary Urban Enterprise Association. A Google Search for GUEA will provide much more specifics on the actual corrupt doings of the company. However, I'm not much interested in the specific history of the corruption scandal, which has been wonderfully told and retold. Instead I appreciate the finer details of the adventure itself; the scent of the fetid clothes which essentially formed these massive sponges sucking up anything liquid, from water to oil, and PCB's galore. Climbing the clothes mountains to capture the above picture I can recall as my feet effortlessly sunk into the saturated rags followed by a slurry of nasty grey-water quickly pouring into my shoes, soaking my socks before trickling between my toes. If was as if I too became one with the waste and garbage around me. I learned from my moments photographing Gary Screw and Bolt to understand the often grave consequences of what happens to people, places, and things when their intended purpose is lost or sold off for a profit without caring about those that built a livelihood around it.




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I know this is a little off the UER theme, but I like these a lot (Central/Western Louisiana):


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Consumed
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Consumed
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...Whoa !
Cool shots.


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I know this is a little off the UER theme, but I like these a lot (Central/Western Louisiana):


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Consumed
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Consumed
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I got a little bit artsy with this one and layered two photos from my Louisiana/Mississippi trip:

Two for One (Cropped)
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A closeup of an interesting old piano in an abandoned church a local store owner told me about on my way to Alexandria, LA:

Lots of really old stuff
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*For all those people around here wanting older members to share locations, here's a tip... just follow the Mississippi river through the Delta region and you'll find more abandoned places/towns than [almost] anywhere else in the country (you'll also find some of the poorest communities in the entire country too)*




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A quick stroll through a side building of a semi-active hospital campus:








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Hundred year old wooden beams creak with agony as a steady winter wind tests their strength while whipping through shattered stain glass windows all the while spurring up miniature dust tornadoes across the ancient asylum's floor boards; torn patient records and flakes of lead paint spin tremulously within the short lived whirlwinds, dying out as fast as they formed. A blustery draft snakes through the collapsing hallways, nipping at the back of my neck and reddening my exposed nose before creeping up to ward doors and loose window frames and like an invisible ghost lingering within the forsaken institution's ruinous remains, slamming anything loose closed with a thunderous boom. Outside a fresh layer of snow, white and powdery as a bag of flour is kicked up by the wind, blown into and trapped within the numerous overgrown courtyards formed by the zig-zagging bat-like wings of the monolithic Kirkbride Building which seems to extend for infinity into a decaying vortex of crumbling brick and charred wooden beams.

Without warning, a sudden violent gust of wind bursts open a long closed door, the sound of the screeching hinges reverberates down the vacant hallways becoming further distorted and ghastly in tone with each narrowing ward the sound slips past. The ajar door can be identified by a series of hand painted letters and numbers just barely discernible under a thick layer of dust and grime, as written are the words, "Ward 32". A curious peak into the open door frame reveals that Ward 32 remains as an entirely collapsed wing, long ago swallowed up into the basement three stores below. Like a black hole, the basement seems to suck everything down into its void, ripping the wooden floors out from the inside of the hospital, like a deer carcass de-gutted from the inside out by a butcher, before spitting the remains into another dimension. However, a handful of splintered beams still loosely cling on for life to the internal brick walls of the old asylum and are the only support appearing to keep from collapsing the last segment of the floor, which now jets out like a high-dive board overlooking the pool of splinters below.

Bulky State issued, suicide resistant patient chairs molded from a single blob of hardened brightly colored plastic await their final fate as they teeter closer and closer to the edge of a collapse. The colorful chairs remain just mere inches away from free falling three stories into the darkened basement abyss. The plastic furniture seemingly teases the hungry basement, begging to be devoured and digested within the pit of ill-fated fallen furniture which has long since assumed its fate within the stomach full of splintered wooden beams and antiquated filing cabinets weighted down by useless papers detailing long forgotten diagnosis's of long deceased patients.

And so, still barely remains, the wonderfully gothic skeleton of the Hudson River State Hospital Kirkbride Building, a ruin that has long since stood the test of time, but for which time is now quickly taking its final toll, naturally demolishing the structure faster and with more ease with each passing year of neglect. It's always fascinating to return to the asylum every couple of years during various seasons to experience and photograph what has changed. Floors I once cautiously tip-toed across years prior have since been devoured by the ever hungry basement and so wandering around always exists as a new mental and physical puzzle to solve. Massive fires seems to engulf the campus on a yearly bases now for charged piles of buildings past dot the overgrown campus roads like road kill left to rot alongside the highway gutter. Most recent, the entirety of the Administration Building has even been scorched by the flames, yet it still stands stronger than any structure which may ultimately one day replace it.

Talk continues to speculate about renovation of the campus, however nothing ever seems to be set in stone. Since my last visit, excavators have worked tirelessly to demolish many of the more modern buildings on the property over the course of the past couple years. Whether or not their hydraulic powered jaws and heavy-duty steel tracks ever pulverize the Kirkbride Building, remains to be seen; however greedy developers and lined pockets tend to create vast brown fields as opposed to glorifying the history already present. One thing is for certain though, if man does not pummel Hudson into extinction, the forces of nature are certainly not far behind, as more has collapsed and burned than I can ever recall. Yet despite all the carnage, the ornate gothic edifice that is Hudson River State Hospital still stands tall and proud despite numerous war wounds and gentrification jabs from greedy land developers. Hudson is a truly mind-blowing and beautiful American sight to behold, it is the Grand Canyon of architecture, ever eroded by a river of historical grandeur and scarred by decades of continuous stories and memories, yet completely laid to waste. A state funded public institution once built as a beautiful castle to benefit the less mentally fortunate is now entirely abandoned, neglected, and wrecked, standing as a true testament to what it was designed to prevent; a mental health crisis which continues to degrade and divide the United States. Is it possible we have forgotten what we once had and have failed to learn from our mistakes, now forever haunted by their ruinous shadows which we are quickly trying to hide?




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AAAAAAAAAAAADVENTURE TIME!!!!
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One of my favorite little churches in one of my favorite little towns near the border of NM and TX:







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One of my favorite little churches in one of my favorite little towns near the border of NM and TX:

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Awesome!




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One of my favorite little churches in one of my favorite little towns near the border of NM and TX:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49536469138_a311f5ae4c_b.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49539046276_9c6a76487c_b.jpg


Feels like the movie Legion.




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