Looking through an abandoned school (photos).

[Drunken Irishman]

My old junior high closed this summer (:() and they're in the process of tearing it down. So a friend and me decided to check it out before it turned into a large pile of rumble.

I had expected to fight our way in, but to my surprise, a side door was open and we found easy access.

This done yesterday, so no construction workers were out.

My fear was running into transients or gangs, but no one -- outside of a figure I saw in a classroom window on the 2nd floor when I was in the gully -- was there.

We did find bullet casings throughout the school and there was a ton of gang graffiti, but other than that, it just looked ransacked.

Actually, the building looked abandoned longer than a summer.

So with all that said, here's the school. And I apologize for the quality, my camera phone kinda sucks.

The back, from the gully. In one of those 2nd floor windows, I swear I saw a figure looking down at us. Probably nothing, though.



The front of the school.



The basement hall.



A typical classroom, windows shot out, stuff thrown about.





This is where the front foyer was. Now rubble.



The main upstairs hall.



This is looking toward the auditorium. Here stood a few classrooms and the courtyard.



Inside the auditorium, which was extremely dark.





This part of the school was divided by the demolishing of the middle part. It was pretty creepy.

Next to the auditorium was a hall and a few classrooms. Here's where the music room was.



Another room:



There was a basement that I went into. Filled with water and genuinely creepy. Unfortunately, my friend wouldn't come down with me.



The side of the building we were just in:



An office...



This is where my locker stood.



Another hall...



Broken out windows.







THIS was pretty creepy...



One final look at the basement hall.



So there you go. It was fun looking through that school again.

[datasuspect]

1. you are in violation of several municipal ordinances.

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Bring the government on!

[Deja Q]

10. Obviously true, but such desolation - that's far worse, and more tragic, to see.

:(

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. It's not like they killed anyone

:eyes:

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. I see some perfectly good furniture in there.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

26. dude

fucking A :headbang: several municipal and a couple of county ones, too :headbang:

[charlie and algernon]

3. cool photos

I've always kinda wanted to do that, explore old abandoned buildings. If nothing else but to see what is left and take pictures too.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. It was fun.

We were careful to not mess it up anymore than it already was.

Though we did smart smelling fire.

It was weird.

[rug]

4. This is a school in Chernobyl.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Yeah, that's creepy.

[Bertha Venation]

7. That is way creepy.

:scared:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

27. fuck.

that is sad.

[flvegan]

8. Looks like a good set for a zombie movie. "28 More Weeks Later"

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Reminds me of this website...

I spent days going through each state, and then through the rest of the countries.

Abandoned places make me so sad. :cry:

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Dang, the new site hardly works. Here's the old site, but

not all the pics are there either. At least the interesting blurbs are, though.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080214202015/http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/

[Drunken Irishman]

34. Thanks for the link.

[GreenPartyVoter]

39. Any time. Just wish you could have seen the site when it was right. :^(

[suninvited]

41. That's a great site

one of the buildings close to where I live in on there. The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas. Some of the pictures are gone, but some are still there to look at. I would love to go in that building!

[sasquatch]

11. Why didn't they remove the desk from the school before demolishing it

Another thing, is there a buildning code that I don't know of that says 90% of all windows in abondoned buildings must be busted out.
:toast:
Drink a beer to the final death of your childhood.

[petronius]

12. Abandoned places are fascinating, in a sad eerie kind of way

There are bunches of websites dedicated to their photography - here's one I like: http://www.abandoned-places.com/

[hedgehog]

13. Why is that school being abandoned?

[Drunken Irishman]

18. They're building a new school.

[greenbriar]

14. wow, all the furniture being left there seems like a waste

and was that a TV

[Kali]

15. my thoughts too

planter pots and desks/tables - I'd be hauling that stuff home:rofl:

[Drunken Irishman]

16. I took a map of the city.

And a tape player, but only because I thought it was a tape recorder. :(

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. That's have the guv works. Selling it or giving it way required some type of process.

[Drunken Irishman]

17. Everything is old.

It's the same shit they had when I was there.

And that was in the late 90s, so it's not a surprise they just left it.

[Strong Atheist]

20. You have NO idea. Due to bureaucracies and legal issues, our school system

is not ALLOWED to give unwanted stuff away. I help to throw out:

- brand new (in its shrink wrap) computer hardware

- wood desks that were good (in fact, we HAD to break them; they were not allowed to be thrown away if they were not broken)

- a truck full of old BOOKS! :cry: ...the driver rescued an encyclopedia set, and I took a few... illegal, BTW...

[graywarrior]

19. Stephen King would love those

[grasswire]

22. the waste in this makes me sick

The school was twenty years old? What the hell! And all those chairs and desks and blackboards are still inside? What the hell!

Schools in many communities are over a hundred years old.

This typifies the disposable society. Please, Mother Earth, accept my apologies for this insult.

[Arugula Latte]

23. I know!

It looks like a fine school. What the hell?!

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. My former school piled unused desks & such outside, 'Community' would help themselves. I say "good'

Once in a while something wanted would end up missing, but for the most part the furniture would sit exposed to the elements never to be used again. People in the neighborhood climbed the fence and helped themselves.

[Liberal_in_LA]

28. Me too! Pull those auditorium seats out and sell them. Desks could be useful to someone

[Drunken Irishman]

32. The school was built the late-40s.

[Drunken Irishman]

35. But yeah, tons of waste.

I took a map of the city and a recorder, but that's it.

[Vektor]

31. How sad - where is this?

And yes, it is a shame that some of the stuff in there cannot be reused - at least some of those desks and chairs could go to a school desperately in need of the resources.

[Drunken Irishman]

33. Salt Lake City.

[Vektor]

36. Oh, thanks.

I've never been there. Very moving pics, but yes, sad.

[Drunken Irishman]

37. It's depressing.

Because two great years were spent there.

Here in the Salt Lake School District you'd spend K-6 at elementary, 7-8 at middle school and 9-12 at high school.

So I was only there two years. Yet in all my dreams, most of 'em anyway, where I am at school, it's Clayton. I'm always wandering the halls at Clayton.

[Vektor]

38. Interesting - I have the same type of dreams.

I grew up in rural MA, with a school system the same as yours, except k-5 was elementary, 6-8 was middle, and 9-12 was high school.

I moved away many, many years ago to the west coast, but still very commonly have dreams about my old house, and old grade school in MA.

I guess your old childhood digs made quite a lasting impression on you, too.

I visit my old hometown every summer, and stop by my old schools a lot. They still look almost exactly the same, except one of the playground areas has kind of fallen to ruin, and the woods have sort of grown over it. Even THAT was depressing for me to see.

I can't imagine how you must feel right now. :hug:

[SidneyCarton]

40. Three years in middle school in SoCal.

But I know what you mean. Though I only wander the halls of Royal Oak Intermediate in my nightmares, Junior High, as we call it was not the fount of many good memories.

[EndersDame]

42. You should totally take a Whiteboard

They are fun to have around you and your friends can put your musings and ideas on them at parties and such. Also leave messages for other inhabitants of the house.

[JVS]

43. It seems so wasteful.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. Looks like a pretty neat design...

...though it's hard to tell exactly. I like the windows next to the hallways.

When I was a kid, people could pick up discarded textbooks from schools. My mom taught me to read using an old copy of Dick and Jane.

It's a shame that there's so much there that could be reused.

[Moondog]

45. Your sense of composition is pretty good.

You deserve a better lens, and a better camera. You could make them sing.

FWIW.

:applause: