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I attempted to make a 360° panorama but failed miserably. Here's what I salvaged... it's kinda cool if you like graffitti!
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came out pretty damn good if u ask me
Yeah I agree. It's cool how the sky turns to night as you move right
Hey I've been there and done some of the artwork. I wish they wouldn't call the pigs everytime we go in there. It is pretty cool being up there. I wish I knew it was for sale because I would have purchased it.
They sold the demolition rights, not the land.
Excuse me, did you say artwork??
Come to think of it, LBC is painted everywhere on the property. That's writing, not art.
just thought I would throw this in there....
Scroll to the right, go past the first pillar and note the blue face. Look at the words the the left of the blue face.

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OK, Someone is not getting any!
lol... just compared my pictures of both locations. Shit, somebody went to some trouble.
Hey, just wanted to say that the "No Pussy" comments are probably what a kid wrote after they were dared to go there--they weren't a pussy
It is only the 2nd 360 that I have seen in my short-time on the net. But I think it is amazing. Was it shot at Dusk or Dawn? (CANADA)
I'm almost positive this shot was taken at dusk. It was also taken a while ago, considering it the graffiti has almost tripled in the last few months. I life in waldorf, and this satellite has become quite popular. If you want to check it out, you best do it soon, the dish looks as if it will be coming down sometime in the near future.

If anyone would like, I could get addition pictures of the dish, and surroundings.
I suppose someone wants the land to cover in identical 'executive' homes with hot tubs and double garages or some such rubbish.

I wonder if the missile silo is still there? I read an account on a UE site of two kids who explored one in New Mexico. This country is full of disused Cold War nuclear bunkers and underground command centres, I guess good old Blighty would have been first in the line of fire if the Soviets had ever decided to get bolshy lol...
The Silo is still there, its across the street, There is another complex similiar to this one about 20 miles away from the other end of waldorf. Ive driven by and stopped at the second site, but have yet to explore it..
But its not that long ago cause there is a heartagram in the name bam up there above the big red heart. bam is a new age skater/tv host. so its not that old.
If you are ever in SF check out the restored Nike base in the Golden gate National Recreation area. They let you ride down on the missle elevator with a rack of formely nuclear tipped spears. They have restored the radar and 1962 targetting computer in the vans. You can sit at the old style raytheon phosporus display azimuth and eleveation radar console srrounded by racks of humming vacume tubes and manipulate the controls as it runs through a training simulation of incoming soviet bombers. Very very creepy.

The only one I know of with so much restored equipment.

I used to hang out on a nike base in PA that had been used as a similar microwave earth station in the 1970s. They were still doing research in the 1980s there.There was lots of old abandoned equipment from previous projects. We took a number of tube amplifiers and made awesome guitar and PA amps out of them. I still have 2 of them. Weapons of the cold war truned into well used tools of joyfull expresion.
if u failed miserably with this pic, i wanna know how you would define perfect. :D
What kind of graffitti artist would write fart?? on the very left
i just got home from there, and these must be OLD pics because you cant even see white anymore it is complely covered in grafitti.

its really an amazing place
Oh man, I see a Heartagram.
le sigh
And various other unmentionable things.
This was always one of my favourite panoramas actually.
FART? You would write that on a dish?
I love this. The day-night affect, the graffiti, everything about it is awesome.
Just talked to one of the onwers friends the other day when we climbed it and he was up there. He said that the guy plans to blow it up and build himself a house here. Kind of sad, we go there probably once a week still to this day. Awesome place to be.
Sean: :-undefined Did he say how soon?

Climbing to the apex:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/50878097/
I like The Doors logo on here. They Rule.

BRAKE ON THROUGH!
i stil like it, would have been even better if there would have been really good grafitti...kinda looks like a spray can had been strapped to a giant chicken leg....but it was good none the less...go back out there and give it another shot, i bet it would turn out alot better...
haha, "diana" is the most competent tag there.
I know, I wrote a comment like yours 2 years ago. Can people think of a better word to put on a dish?
pixie thats me i love that base keep it alive
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'n****rs are black'.....

very observant...

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