right.






( first house -- bigger (+1) )





( second house, with cats -- bigger (+6) )
 
 

i just ate a ton of chocolate. am feeling terribly guilty right now.

also, i want to thank everyone who commented on my last post, i had never reached a second third!!!! page of comments before. it feels kind of nice. :D




i don't usually post single photos of my awesome adventures in abandoned places, but this was the only good picture i took of this house. i didn't actually go inside because the stench of (animal or human, i have no idea) piss was like a kick to the face. i have some older photos of that same house here, if anyone wants to take a look.
 
 

aaand here are the photos.



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have some photos.

i'm posting some fanart later.

this building was a nightclub... then a restaurant, then a nightclub again... until it was abandoned and it ended up burning down.

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shocking.

i also found some abandoned couches and i fell in love.




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i'm going to pretend it's already 23/04 and post the photo.





i think this particular building started my fascination with abandoned places. early 2004 i think.

mom tells me that this used to be a swimming pool. I assume the structure next to it was some kind of terrace. I tried to get underneath the terrace, but from where I was, the only way in was through a narrow-narrow ledge. I tried to cross it, but I got scared because I have a shitty sense of balance. D:

the last pic shows another way to get in, but I decided it would take me too long to access it. Someday, I will get in there! (pfft yeah right.)





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Humberstone ghost town, plus some more Sta. Laura photos my friend took with my camcorder. Sadly, my camcorder doesn't take very good pictures.

Again, some places like the school, market and church (which isn't seen here because, frankly, it looks like a modern church and that's boring) have been partly restored and preserved, so they look like they did... 70 years ago?

Same as the previous two posts, lots of images.




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And thus concludes my picspam.

Humberstone and Santa Laura, former nitrate elaboration plants, started functioning around 1880. In the year 1932 it stopped its activities (due to the great depression, the invention of synthetic nitrate, etc don't ask me I have shitty memory and probably got the whole story wrong), reopened in 1934 and was officially abandoned in 1960.

I'm posting only the Sta. Laura part on this entry because... too many pictures. Goddd. I think there's like 40 only in this post. The ghost town part will come later.

I honestly can't imagine how people survived there, in the conditions they lived and worked. The heat, man. The motherfucking heat. It's winter over here and it was barely bearable. But I thought it was a beautiful place despite that.

The pictures of the objects, bedrooms, etc are from a house that was partly restored and turned into a museum of sorts. The rest of the area remains untouched. Me and my friend were the only people there, that was kind of cool too.

<-- eww the excessive saving and compression killed this one. Stupid me.

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I hope photofuckit isn't being ridiculously slow.