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From Vconfession.com, Moscow, Russia,Nov. 09
Photog. D.Zhuravlev
Style N. Sych
Model D. Polyakov

kay, this was once a Dolly Parton based dinner Show in Orlando Florida, however, it closed 2 years ago and recently reopened as a Flea Market that isnt quite ready to be open.

They made no repairs to the building and the way the building is being used it is reminiscent of an end of the world/fallen and reconstructed society films. It was cool and much of the building is still not in use. Some more photos inside..



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As promised, here’s more photos of the beautiful old theater in Birmingham, Alabama I posted before. Part of the reason I got to shoot inside The Lyric Theatre was to compare and contrast the condition of the Lyric, versus the condition of the fully restored Alabama Theatre across the street. The folks who own The Alabama also own The Lyric and due to some personal and professional connections, I had free run of both buildings to shoot over nearly six hours. Obviously this gave me and two other photographers/explorers time to see things that many folks would never notice on a causal tour. It also resulted in 400+ photos just from my camera. Thus said, I’m going to be posting these images for some time to come.


The Lyric Theatre – Original exit sign

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I got some distressing news from fellow ruin-explorer Rob Yasinsac the other day: A large section of Bannerman's Castle, the abandoned weapons arsenal on the Hudson River, collapsed sometime last weekend.

I first started visiting Bannerman's Castle about twenty years ago, and every year we'd always notice the structures would crumble a little more. Now there's a huge piece missing from the main tower, and this no doubt makes the whole building dangerously unstable.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be enough money to preserve all the buildings on the island. Only a month ago, the Bannerman's Castle Trust was trying to raise funds to restore one of the towers on the breakwater because the foundation has deteriorated to the point where it may fall into the river by the end of this winter.

Hi there!

I'm new to this community, and nearly as new to the whole world of photography. The one thing I'm pretty familiar with is my love of abandoned places.

And so I hope some of you can help me out in finding abandoned places in CT. I'm looking for places I can get into without TOO much trouble.

As a thank you, I've got some (amateur) photos of my own. Hope you enjoy!

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EDIT: I do want to clarify, these are NOT my pictures. I just wanted to post the link because I thought the whole set was awesome.

I don't know if this has been floated around or not, but this is a tour of an old Russian Typhoon class submarine in mothballs. Pretty incredible, they are the largest submarine ever built, and to see some of the things in it is amazing. They had full machine facilities, exercise rooms, and even a small swimming pool!

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2525

(This is my first post here, if I did something wrong, please feel free to delete/move it or whatever needs to be done)

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