Playing Catch-Up – Gary Exploration Part 1
I haven't posted in months due to extreme lazification. That ends now (hopefully). I'm going to start a weekly (hopefully daily) attempt to catch up to exactly where I am now as it comes to exploration and photos that I've taken for work.
It begins with a trip to Gary I took nearly five months ago, December 2008.
Cold day of course, but most of the buildings that we visited were completely enclosed, shielding us at least partially from the wind outside.
We started with the old standby, the factory. Since it was Mid-Winter, the piles of clothes usually sitting moist and moldy were rigid and frozen completely solid. The light beamed in through the window and reflected off of the shiny piles.
Frozen Piles of Clothes lay on the floor of the factory
Water dripping from the ceiling of the building was creating icicles down the massive warehouse ceiling. The streams of ice were pristine, lined up perfectly along the edge where each piece of roof met.
Ice hangs from the girders.
They continue all the way down the length of the huge building.
Even after decades of abandonment, pieces of the building's history still stick around. It's weird really, knowing how many people have been here before me considering how untouched the building and its contents are.
A packing sticker sits still coiled up perfectly after years of disuse
Even after many times visiting this place, I always find things that are new to me.
Inexplicable Spraypaint near a door.
A wall covered in what looks like soot.
After leaving the bolt factory, we swung by a building that we had always seen from the road, but never attempted to enter. The inside of the building was unremarkable compared to the interesting architecture on the outside, although we did run into a few surprises.
Although the photo might not be remarkable, those stairs definitely are.
Apparently, Efraim liked pastel colors a lot.
Disco inferno?
Stay tuned for the next half of the day which includes an apartment building that is practically falling apart and a recently (then, at least) closed high school. Hopefully, I'll get around to it tomorrow.
To see more of my abandoned photos, check out my main site.
