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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Abandon In Place

When Congress told NASA to scrap the Apollo program some 3 moon missions sooner than scheduled, and no more mighty Saturn Vs were built, NASA simply walked away from the towering Launch Complex 39-A at Cape Canaveral (now Kennedy Space Center) leaving it to rust and decay for years. The sign they bolted to the side of the launch tower read simply “Abandon In Place”.

This is apparently a common method of dealing with business failure in Japan where the ghostly hulks of abandoned amusement parks litter the countryside and Swiftian-sized Gullivers lie at Fuji’s base. There’s 4 pages of this stuff: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4.

And if you’re in the mood for more industrial scale decay, Defunctparks.com features many snapshots of parks in their heyday alongside their current state of rot. Nor should you miss Suzy Poling’s site. Poling, an Oakland photographer, has a great photo series of an abandoned theme park called Hidden Village. She also features a spread of old delapidated theatres: Palace of Mold.

Proudly partly plagiarized from WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.

send complaints to L 9:56 AM

Comments:

Holy crap that's awesome!
I am totally going to have to spend some time looking through those. I love abandoned buildings, etc.

# posted by

Madame D : 8:34 PM

The Japanese site has tons of decaying buildings, not just amusement parks. It's a bit of a pain to navigate through it since it's all in Japanese (duh!) but well worth it. Here's a link to the index page of the photographer's profiles in decay. File1, File2, File3, and File4 all have galleries on them. The rest are either missing or future projects.

# posted by

L : 10:01 PM

I really like this aesthetic. I was struk by a scene in some movie that I can't remember (Escape From LA, maybe?) that was set in an abandoned football stadium that had decayed become overgrown with trees and tall grass growing inside it.

I think it's the idea of nature breaking through the concrete and tearing down the steel to re-stake it's claim that I appeals to me.

# posted by

C-Nihilist : 7:06 AM

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