Swede Hollow

[snurri]

Comments

[timakers]

I'm always fascinated to see the hidden spaces in cities, and how those spaces are usually associated with squalor and ignored populations. Hell, I just like to see nature taking back a little bit of the city.

[snurri]

Hell, I just like to see nature taking back a little bit of the city.

Ditto that; it's lovely down there, if nothing else. I just wish there was some record down there to tell people what used to be there.

[justinhowe]

These are great pictures. Thanks for posting them. Was the brewery open?

[snurri]

The brewery's abandoned, so far as I know; I think Hamm's is still made, but not here.

[tanaise]

When I take the bus to New York from my hometown, we drive through former coal towns. They're so poor. Saddest things ever. And the ones we don't drive through (ie, off the main routes) are returning to the wild, and you can find creepy sad photos on the internet. Centralia (which no one can drive through, and rightly so) is sad, creepy, and also terrifying.

[snurri]

Centralia is so bizarre; it's the sort of place that would make a great setting for a story, but it's almost too sad and weird to use.

[tanaise]

I have coal fire towns in two of my stories. No one will ever know, though, because i can't finish either of them. I AM A LOSER.

[snurri]

Yes, clearly that is the lesson here.

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[anonymous]

along the bluffs on the west side there are still remains of the foundations of houses that were built along the bluffs by the r.r tracks.