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This reminds me of Bob-Lo Island in Michigan. It was closed in 1993 and is supposed to be converted to condo's or some such nonsense.

With the history of failing to properly deal with waste disposal that is exemplified by incidents like the housing complex in Love Canal New York I think you would have a hard time selling any of these reuse projects here. If you look at places like Germany there is also a want to forget the historic use of certain projects that may have been involved in the war efforts of WWII. I think both of these factors are major drivers in the differing thinking on why reuse projects differ between cultures.

Very neat that you have a pic of a steel furnace in Bethlehem PA in here. :) That is a few hours from me, but stil...you were in my state!! YAY YAY YAY to that. I am sure PA was a much nicer place for that short time you had visited here!

I am not much into the industrial pictures (as compared to the hospitals and such) but these were really neat.

Great pics!

Another awesome series of photographs and writings that continue to reinforce the idea that Mr. Motts is the best! Thank you!

Nice post. We do have a place like that here in the US. Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama. They too allow you to wander freely and explore the interiors. They also have concerts in one of the big sheds.

In this country they would be sued for a hang nail if they thought a piece of metal did it. Would be awesome in so many respects, but I think the US is too sue-happy for anyone to be able to do this. This is such a wonderful way to salvage some of these fantastic sites.

It really is a shame with all the ridiculousness here. How absolutely amazing would it be to visit places like this without having to sneak in to them? (Perhaps that's part of the fun for people who explore, but I'm far too chicken to do so, lol.) It seems like in Europe, they just have so much more respect for these old locations. Here we just let them rot until they need to be demolished. What a waste. Maybe some day that coudl happen here....it would be awesome if it could.

I could spend hours walking through these rusting relics of the industrial revolution. But unfortunately, risk of injury & litigation prevents these places from being opened to the public. And that's sad because as spectacular as these photos are, they can't convey the true scope & mass of these facilities without being there.