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The Cult Workshop
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This location has been labeled as Demolished, and therefore can be viewed by anyone.
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Its 26 acres with a 7400 sq ft brick and corrugated metal building, a mobile home and a garage, open pits and piles of dirt and maybe some buried hazardous waste in the White Rock Creek flood plain. The location is littered with trash and other evidence of human occupation.
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Type: Building
Status: Demolished
Accessibility: - select -
Recommendation: forget it
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asbestos rust vagrants scrappers and potential hazardous waste on site
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I suppose you just had to be there it was hard to imagine what sort of conditions the "members" were living under.
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The history of this location remains a bit of a mystery. I discovered it more or less by chance while exploring the woods and swamps nearby along White Rock Creek one day. It looked kind of odd so I started keeping tabs on it. Satellite imagery shows there was some commercial activity here as late as 2003 with trailers being loaded or unloaded and employee vehicles in the parking but when I came across it in the summer of 2004 the main building was locked up tight and appeared to be vacant. There was a mobile home parked on the property next to the main building locked up and apparently vacant. From fall 2004 to 2005 there was new activity. A large school or church type bus was parked around back and an occasional car or two would be parked in front. A white cargo van was also seen coming and going from the property often so I just assumed it had become active light industrial again. According to the tax data this property was owned by a Toni Backlund of Mobile Alabama. At least until DART bought it (or seized it) in 2005. He owned and operated a demolition and asbestos abatement company there, and maybe here as well. There are some pits on this property, some recently filled in that might contain hazardous waste. But between 2004 and 2005 something else was going on here. Stapled to a wall inside was a printed page titled: "The House Rules". Part of this document could not be read because the bottom was cut off but enough text remained to get the picture. This lead me to believe there was a support group or religious halfway house of some kind operating out of here. The tone of the document seemed a little too creepy to be coming from your garden variety church youth organization though. It suggested a more strict cult like control was being exercised over the members (see image of this document in the photo gallery). UPDATE: DEMOLISHED In a final act of irony, a competitor demolition company bulldozed it as it stood in the path of DART's southern light rail expansion. Now we will never know.
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A multi-million dollar mass transit light rail station to serve a few South Dallas residents.
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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Photography |
7 / 10 |
Coolness |
7 / 10 |
Content Quality |
9 / 10 |
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Mike Dijital on 8/20/2014 8:44 PM.
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on Aug 20 14 at 20:44, Mike Dijital validated this location on Aug 18 14 at 23:18, Explorer Zero changed the following: History on Aug 18 14 at 23:16, Explorer Zero updated gallery picture House Rules on Aug 18 14 at 23:04, Explorer Zero changed the following: History on Aug 18 14 at 22:59, Explorer Zero changed the following: History, Accessibility, Hazards, Future Plans, Description on Aug 18 14 at 22:48, Explorer Zero updated gallery picture Main view on Aug 18 14 at 22:48, Explorer Zero reordered images in gallery Members only on Aug 18 14 at 22:47, Explorer Zero updated gallery picture Cult garage on Aug 18 14 at 22:46, Explorer Zero updated gallery picture Woo hoo a shed on Aug 18 14 at 22:45, Explorer Zero updated gallery picture House Rules
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