We had those EXACT desks and storage units at my old office, and most of those were just put in new. Can't have been abandoned for long.

MMM Asbestos tiles!

Quoted from Garth:{ that's just a fact--even to this day--about antiquated plumbing. i live in an old Victorian and my wife won't flush any of her sanitaries down the toilet for fear of clogging up the system. and the same thing with similar houses in the surrounding area--no feminine products whatsoever, else it means dire shit for the sewage system.... }

Its a fact of plumbing in general. I've always been taught NEVER to flush those things down any toilet, home or otherwise.

I'm assuming that there were pictures or something that were not removed when the room was painted. At one point it was that nasty institutional green color, then pink, and then finally white. When it was cleared out, the pictures were removed revealing the original color. Just my guess.

My question is how do you have enough bravery to turn on a light switch in an abandoned building. Who knows if it would explode O_o

I think its an interesting image to see them still working even though they're hanging vertically from the ceiling. Such an odd sight.

I thought those were called Kidney bowls, though I never knew why...

It looks like they are melting.

Those types of plastic chairs always come in a variety of colors. Very similar-ish chairs in my middle school. All the desks had different colored chairs even though they all looked the same.

What's with the hoses?

mmm.. Look at the mildew & mold creeping through.

I have to laugh - GodDog was interviewed in the article in 2006 "No trespasser has ever been injured" What now? Whose blood is that then?!

We have a coal plant that has cooling towers just like that. I always though it was nuclear but no.

ITS EXIT MAN! We were all so intrigued by him during our trip to Europe, I even made a shirt with him emblazoned on it.

We had an old drive in in my town for years when I was a kid. It was never used, but they had the local flea market and the circus there every year. Then, walmart bought it up and built a Sams and a supercenter.

Glad to see that you wear a mask at least!

Looks just like the one in my old apartment.. just much more beat up.

Please tell me that you wear some sort of protective breathing apparatus when you explore these places. Just to think of all the mold and asbestos.. uch.

Judging by the size of the teeth (check the canines) in relation to the skull, I'm going to wager a guess and say that's not a cat but a small dog or something.

You've got to realize also that at that point, left-handedness was still considered to be very bad. Many children would've been switched to their right hands, anyway.
My mom was.

This is awesome. These guys were the official sponsor of one of my favorite old time radio shows - The Shadow. I'd love to be there and actually see where they made "America's Finest Anthracite"

Seriously, looks like a person coming through that gap. Just look, you can see head and shoulders squeezing through. Did it look like that *before* you snapped the photo?