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Buffalo Malt

Post author:Concrete
Post published:October 19, 2009
Post category:Buffalo Industrial
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A Monday afternoon skip class and explore trip with MidnightGenius from UER. Our first target was the giant grain elevators. Then this happened. While about to give up, we just happened to run into the Buffalo Malt tower. The place was pretty well trashed and gutted, but at least it was big Probably the most interesting thing about it was this thing on the roof, with thousands and thousands of glass tubes This was in the basement for some reason More crap photos here. I really need to get a proper camera and/or a bit of creativity.

What’s That Blue Thing?

Post author:Concrete
Post published:October 18, 2009
Post category:Adirondacks Industrial North Country
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On the last few urbex camping trips, we kept noticing something on the side of route 3 that looked huge, abandoned, and very, very blue. After a bit of research, I figured out that it was Benson's Mines, and no one had really bothered to explore it yet, since it's in the absolute middle of North Country nowhere, and no one from the 'establishment' thought it was worth the trip at all. And they were so, so wrong. I left this place with a very profound feeling of 'coming out' as an explorer: this was my first find worth anything…

Buffalo!

Post author:Concrete
Post published:September 19, 2009
Post category:Buffalo Industrial Institutional
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Fall couldn't come soon enough; another semester of college, the Bills have a chance again, and it's UER season! First place of the day was an orphanage school whose days are numbered Painting the tunnels before graduation seems to have been a tradition here Next was a boring old furniture factory that isn't worth much of a mention here. Then, somehow, we decided to attempt this iconic site This was about as far as we got before paranoia took over... cops on the brain are the (second-)worst! At least we weren't caught...

Army/Navy

Post author:Concrete
Post published:April 12, 2009
Post category:Industrial Rochester
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The fourth and last UER meet of the spring 2009 season is over... I survived. Somehow. The first two locations were little more than ponder and run from cops, two warehouse looking things in the bad part of the 19th ward. Apparently they just found bodies there last week or something, for once maybe it was a good thing a helpful officer suggested we leave. Busted with nowhere to go, Trent suggested an old World War II surplus in a rotten barn in Gates, which turned into quite the battlefield in its own right. Airspeed calculator? The Jiffy Dog was…

Burnination!

Post author:Concrete
Post published:February 15, 2009
Post category:Industrial Rochester
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Another outing with the UER group... wasn't much of a story to it, just going out and exploring the old Fall Street incinerator site. Karl, Brendan, Andrew and (somebody) at the inevitable Failboat Burn all images: destroy epitaphs! The scariest stairs, at least back then Mind the gap! The rest of the shit photos I took are here...

American Laundry Machinery

Post author:Concrete
Post published:November 16, 2008
Post category:Industrial Rochester
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American Laundry Machinery was one of the first inventors of washing machines small and affordable enough for home use. After being commandeered to make military optics in World War II, the company's operations never fully recovered in Rochester, and the buildings were split up to an assortment of other business, with the power plant and warehouse left to rot. We got permission to see the factory floors, which are now used for storage. No one could explain why this was here. Each of these stacks is 1440 empty Mike's Hard bottles. Classic or dinosaur? How about old green-screen terminal? Full…