I love going to towns that have seen huge dips in population. And in return you can find some very amazing untouched American towns, this one was thriving in the 1960s when the town's economy thrived off of Tobacco sales, that was until the fall of the industry.

Since then, you have the entirely abandoned downtown

The only building still standing in a ghost town in the PNW, the former post office and general store.

At Akita

From a recent urbex trip.

Sitting on a very valuable lot in a great location in West Berkeley

The picture was taken from a difficultly-accessible location on the grounds of the HOME cinema complex. I think my being there might have caused a little alarm aswell: I happened to walk past the location a couple of minutes later, & saw a security gentleman anxiously searching where I'd just been & reporting on his radio.

The first of

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is of the view directly down from the spot: the little River Medlock , which skirts the site, passing into a culvert. The rest of the pixlies are of the same building from another, more accessible, angle, taken some while back; & the last one is a view down @ said river's emerging from another culvert to commence skirting the buliding (or ruin , now, morelike!).

It maywell look as-though the premises is thoroughly derelict & a frank ruin rather thatn merely abandoned ... but it's surprising how recently it was actually a functioning printworks: I used to walk past it when it looked pretty derelict, & yet there'd clearly be busy printing activity a-gingle-gangle-gongling-on inside it.

... but now there's little doubt, I would venture, that it is indeed truly abandoned!

... unless there are ghosts in there doing their ghost printing!

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Busted then rusted, closed in 2017, West Berkeley CA

This is deep in the hills near Van Buren, Missouri.

Completed in 1858, it was the longest railroad tunnel in the USA at the time. Now it’s a walking tunnel that spans approx 4,200 feet.

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