Posted September 2, 200717 yr This is my first photo thread so don't hate!! :-P A month back I decided to go to Centralia on the hottest conditions to ever go :x, so look for another thread in the fall. This is a depressing area and I processed my photos to reflect on that. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia%2C_PA">Wikipedia: Centralia, Pennsylvania</a> There isn't much left either and I am worried there will be even less when I go back in the fall... This house was once part of a row on the main drag. Notice the brick supports holding the house together now.. Thirty years ago my car would have been in front of another row of houses.. :-( Hey even Centralia has a requisite photo.. These signs are all over the town. This one is on the abandoned section of PA-61.. This is the old coal miners' wash house...now it's a dilapidated horde for satanists... apparently the town has a large amount of Satanists :wtf: A foundation of a building that was razed last year.. An overgrown street.. The black patches in the street are what they used to fill in a cave-in from the heat below.. The northern end of the abandoned portion of PA-61.. This is what a coal fire can do to a highway. Usually there is steam coming out but that day it was in the 90's so there was none.. The Highway To Hell (this was spray painted all over the road) This bench has the name of the town, the year of its incorporation and used to have the zip code which was revoked many years back.. This also used to be one of the busiest corners in town.. This corner used to have a block of businesses and homes.. So did this one.. ...And there you have it not much to look at but it is very interesting. I cannot wait to go back in the fall. Stay tuned for.. Williamsport, Pennsylvania!!!
September 3, 200717 yr This is awesome!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 3, 200717 yr Pretty powerful stuff. I'd be afraid to go there, especially where the ground and roads are cracking and steam comes up. Getting swallowed by a cave-in would be a bad way to go. I don't know which would kill you first -- suffocation, burning or breathing sulfur dioxide. Please, please, be careful!
September 3, 200717 yr ^^ Actually, that is how the danger got national attention. I forget when but a sinkhole opened up underneath a younger kid and if he didn't grab hold of some tree roots he would have died no doubt..
September 4, 200717 yr It was leveled a while ago.. These pictures show where the downtown once stood... This website, http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm, has pictures of the town from a few years back, when there were some buildings left..It provides a sharp contrast between now and when that site was made. I was really disappointed on this trip because back in '04 my dad and I drove through it and there were a few larger buildings left. When I go back in the fall I will still post a thread because I missed some pretty interesting things that will still be there... *cue scary music* :-o
September 4, 200717 yr The people in that linked photo set have to be nuts, or have a death wish. I wouldn't go near that place on a bet, and they're messing around the vents and fissures!
September 4, 200717 yr Wow, I can't believe an entire downtown is gone. Would you guys happen to know of any other towns that has happened to?
September 4, 200717 yr Great thread, DJ Orion. You are a lot gutsier than I am--I can deal with desolation but that place looks downright dangerous. Do they try to prevent people from going there?
September 4, 200717 yr Haha thanks...No they don't actually, and it's somewhat a tourist attraction. There are some families who still live there though. I think there are about 6 or 7 families. But there isn't much to do about the fires. They can't put them out. It's only a matter of time before the town completely disappears... :-(
September 10, 200717 yr brilliant photos, DJ Orion. I never made it out to Centralia myself. To be honest... it doesn't look that different than some of the "urban prairie" areas that plague most of America's major cities... We all look forward to your Williamsport collection.
September 10, 200717 yr Wow, how... "Silent Hill"... :-o clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
September 10, 200717 yr haha its funny you say that because the town in the movie was based on centralia...NO LIE!!!! lol From Wikipedia "Writer Roger Avary had said that as a boy, his father, who was a mining engineer, used to tell him stories about the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States where coal deposits from the local mine caught fire and released toxic gases into the town. This forced the majority of inhabitants to evacuate forever. Avary was fascinated since childhood by the idea that fires underneath the town would be burning for such a long time and the story of Centralia was used as the basis for the township of Silent Hill."
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