Industrial

An House Of Sin

I've been exploring at least every week this summer, and hardly have any pictures to show for it; finally I got out during the day for a change, back to the Flint Street warehouse, which is more rotten than ever before, and features an ungodly stench in the July heat. It'll probably be the last time I bother with this place... but I wanted to at least try the new wide angle I got for my birthday. ugh... Someone tore down the attempt at boarding up the gaping hole in the back of the building. It's had a turbulent history…

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Spaghetti Factory

This was a place I saw while I was canvassing last fall and never made it back to. As far as I can tell, it's a former part of the LiDestri plant, a spaghetti sauce conglomerate that dominates the north side of Fairport. It's also the farthest away of our regular season destinations, so we decided to make it a priority in a week that we have a guest explorer with a car in our group. The entrance was a bit less than intuitive, for me anyway - the door that I thought would open, and probably was open in…

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Missiles? What Missiles?

My friend came in from Ithaca this weekend for some exploring, and after some Friday night drinking and draining (making use of his crow-wrench tire iron that I took by mistake almost six years ago and *still* forgot to return), we thought we should try some new places out in Niagara Falls, see if we could find a "missile silo" someone posted on UER about a month ago. It didn't go according to plan at all, we went around in circles looking for it, found a few fenced off vacant lots, and finally something that looked like a plausible base.…

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Rites of Spring

Playing with fire again, this time in the old Flint St warehouse... reason #18 I shouldn't go to Burning Man: I can't spin fire without burning a hole in my shirt and having to get put out with a $8 bottle of Drunken Bastard! Some people were much better at it than me though We need to make a sport that uses these. Fire hockey? Dodgefireball? Cricket 2.0? All that fire did light the place up nicely at least... Go home, you're drunk! Random 3am calls from these freaks to go exploring is one thing I'll miss horribly about graduation.…

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Office Space

The last stop on my Albany adventure for this year, this warehouse in Menands seems to have been a casualty of the recession. While it was originally a national leader in magazine printing (Williams Press, contractor for the northeast printings of Condé Nast magazines), a decline in the print business forced Williams to close in 1999. The next tenant, judging by what still remains, must have been a moving/storage facility for Manhattan offices, containing neatly stacked regiments of furniture from the likes of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, undoubtedly hidden away, perhaps on pawn, until the recession thawed, but left…

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Fallen Giants

By the time I was thoroughly fed up with my fool's errand in Albany looking for people to explore with (and had the first few of many drinks on Lark street), I decided I may as well at least explore something before the weekend got any worse. Out by myself (which never happens) and in absolutely no mood to get caught, I went back to the one place I knew I could get into, AlTech Steel, for some night photos. Even when it was still alive I'd have to imagine this place was incredibly drab. Industrial wasteland hardly does it…

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