Ghosts of Shopping Malls Past-Modern Ruins

[tekisui]

A really interesting photo series of malls that have long since closed the doors.

This one is the most forgotten. Other in the series are eerie, nostalgic and rather sad.



http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/ghosts_of_shopping_past/10gosp.php

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I love pics of abandoned places. They make me feel so melancholy, though. This one

in particular because every time we visited family down in Florida we would drive past this place all the time when it was shiny new. I finally got to see the inside but only after it was a wreck that someone decided to document.

I think this is one reason I love to watch "Ghost Hunters." Every now and then they hit up amazing old places like the train terminal in Buffalo or the sanatorium that was in Kentucky.


http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/?page_id=137&album=7&gallery=81


http://buffalocentralterminal.org/


http://www.therealwaverlyhills.com/

[alfredo]

2. My uncle died at Waverly Hills Sanitorium. It is a spooky place.

I used to pick up some cardboard from the trash and slide down the hill in front. I was too young to go inside, so I played around on the grounds. What I didn't know I was "sledding" over the tunnel they used to transfer out the dead.

They used the tunnel to hide the presence of the hearse from the patients and visitors.

Here's a page with a couple images of old and abandoned structures.

http://web.me.com/alfredo_tomato/Random_Images/Random_Images_page_2.html

[alfredo]

3. The fabulous Ruins of Detroit

http://www.detroityes.com/home.htm


An apartment building where I lived is on this page. The el Moore

Here's some fine images of Detroit architecture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50142821@N00/39711842


I see there is an image of the Moon light Restaurant.
Their liver and onions was worth the dangerous trip. A lot of hookers congregated at that corner. Some of them lived in the El Moore on Alexandria. We used to call the el Moore, the Alexandrine.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. I remember seeing a site on here of beautiful abandoned Detroit houses. Another heartbreaking

portrayal of decline.

You've got some great abandoned places shots of your own. Have you thought about submitting them to the abandoned but not forgotten site?

And I can't believe you actually went sledding at Waverley Hills. That is so creepy yet cool. :D

[alfredo]

5. I was only 6 years old, creepy was cool

[Tindalos]

6. That's rather disturbing

It's odd to see abandoned buildings. Buildings here are usually torn down and rebuilt before they even get old. Some sit half empty with a handful of tenants because their owners live overseas and use them as a tax write-off. It would be nice if they could be used for something. Housing, community centres, marketplaces, even torn down and turned into a park. Anything is better than moldering concrete and asphalt.


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[47of74]

7. Dixie Square Mall

Those who have seen Blues Brothers got to see the mall used as a backdrop for one of many police chases in that film. I wish they'd at least tear it down and if not using it for anything return it to a natural setting rather than letting it decay into a toxic dump.

[regnaD kciN]

8. If you like this sort of thing...

...you should check out DeadMalls.com.