Rochester – Page 4 – This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed

Spaghetti Factory

Post author:Concrete
Post published:June 3, 2013
Post category:Concrete Industrial Rochester
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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…

Backup Plan Hospital

Post author:Concrete
Post published:May 17, 2013
Post category:Concrete Institutional Rochester
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Yes, I went back to this place yet again. It was the start of a new season in the Concrete Collective, and we were aiming high, trying to get into the Terrence Building. Of course, we missed the brief window of it being open without climbing like a parkour monkey, just like every time, so we went to the one place we knew was still open, the Genesee Hospital. Things had changed quite a bit in the last few weeks though, the side door was wide open now, and the inside was full of plastic sheeting and asbestos warnings. So…

Common Knowledge

Post author:Concrete
Post published:May 14, 2013
Post category:Residential Rochester
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When looking for a place to explore, never discount the obvious. Anyone who has seen this building enough times would notice the lights are never on, and the windows are broken, on the first two floors. This one is only an elevator ride away from me - the building where I live, 111 East Avenue, used to be the Sagamore Hotel, one of the most luxurious places in the city in the 1920s and 30s. Among the more interesting historical uses of the building, the penthouse once housed W2XRT, among the first television stations ever built, going on the air…

The Underground Art

Post author:Concrete
Post published:April 10, 2013
Post category:Rochester Underground
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It may be trivially easy to access, and everyone's been there, but one of the best things about the Rochester abandoned subway is that every few months, the graffiti changes like the exhibits in a gallery. This time, we were here to remember Seth (HIAR) who took his own life last winter, and try to get pictures of as much of his art as is still around...

Rites of Spring

Post author:Concrete
Post published:March 24, 2013
Post category:Concrete Industrial Rochester
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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.…

Phosphorescence

Post author:Concrete
Post published:March 13, 2013
Post category:Rochester Underground
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Sometimes blogging at work has its positives... like discovering am explorer sits at the desk right next to me! We decided to take the first Sunday of spring and go to the drains and play with some fire and glow sticks. Explorers in their natural habitat: Garrett the fire god: Incendio! Now entering RGB color space What else are you supposed to do when you find a dead mau5 while you're exploring? Eventually we just smashed the glowsticks and went Jackson Pollock on the place.