It is amazing to me how you find these things. How very fortunate you are to find and explore such places.

Thanks Guys...Finally I can sleep at night, rest in peace...perhaps.

*B-B-B-B-BILLY BOY!!!*

Ferns Are So Cute! it might be a type of maiden hair fern (I know that this is pretty vague), but it reminds me of maiden hair ferns I've seen for sale in nurseries

Pure Genius!

I know it is an inside story, but what's this with the soap dispenser? I have been looking on this site for years, and still haven't figured out what the deal is with that :-) Could someone please enlighten me?

I agree with Melissa, I think that is the argument here...Sure, these buildings will be torn down and probably a lot of things will be put into the dumpster...but in the meantime it makes a place a lot less interesting the more things that are taken...because it ruins the "just like everyone up and left feeling..." that we all so enjoy here...And also great photographs for people like Motts to Take...
I have struggled with this dilemma myself, when I have explored abandoned buildings...especially since I am an artist...and I often see things that I would love to use in my projects...I lean to the side of not taking things...but often when I come back...the thing that I didn't take was taken or otherwise destroyed by someone else...
But there certainly is a difference between taking things "just for the hell of it..." As many people do and brag about it...(as some sort of macho power trip) and taking something for to reuse...or salvage...although I don't condone either...I don't think that there is any cut and dried answer here...(and there often isn't)
I think the question is: Would we like to continue to be able to explore these places and see them for what they were and are, or would we rather take things in the idea of recycling, or senseless destruction, ego building???
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Often, I find that people take or break things just to brag to their friends to say that they did it...not that i am saying anyone here is doing that, but I got some pretty heated emails when I commented on some videos of people blowing up Byberry with sticks of dynamite...and some kid throwing slate roof tiles off of Danvers...somehow I came out to be wrong for voicing my opinion, and they didn't understand why I would question them on their right to destroy old buildings...
Needless to say, I was very angry, because many of these buildings are being torn down, vandalized, or are increasingly hard to get into...At least those angry people live on the East Coast and can visit those places anytime they liked...and maybe took them for granted...while I am on the opposite of the country...and have to suffice with seeing pictures of what is now gone...
I wish that I was born a generation before, because then I would have had the privelege of visiting Danvers, Byberry, or other places that I really wanted to, and now I never will...
It makes me sad really...

It always warms my heart to look at this site...the amazing pictures...the Amazing places!!! Places that I will never be fortunate enough to see...being born a generation too late...This Truly is like no other Urban Exploration sites I've seen...Top Notch...and God Bless You that you are preserving these buildings for people to see always...if only in fixer and print paper...