Ghost Towns
Whenever I drive by the empty shell that was once a Hills department store, I have this powerful urge to pull into the deserted parking lot and peak through the large store windows. I have a strange fascination with this place, which I visited frequently when the store was active many years ago. I often wonder what it would be like to walk through the store if all of the shelves, displays, and products had been left intact when it shut down. I confess part of this fascination is the idea of seeing vintage Star Wars figures on the pegs just as they were back when I was a kid.
On a whim I went searching on the web for pictures of something like this, and I came across this website created by a guy who enjoys snooping around abandoned buildings. He has some really cool, creepy photos of abandoned building interiors, with accompanying summaries of his exploits. Have a look!
May 27th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Now that you’ve got it out of your system and into a blog post, does this mean you might not mention it whenever we pass it in the car? =) Just kiddin’ bro…
May 27th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Sorry bro, no can do. Your only hope is for Walmart to build a store there. Of course then, when we drive by I’ll just comment about how there used to a Hills there. :-)
May 27th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
It runs in the family, sorry to say…the urge to mention the same story/memory every single time you pass a place is just unavoidable. Ask poor James. Mom and Dad both do it, it was inevitable that some of their offspring would have the same habit.
May 27th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
UrbEx, short of Urban Exploration. People get down on investigating and documenting abandoned buildings. here’s the flickr search for “urbex” has some cool stuff.
http://flickr.com/search/?q=urbex&w=all
May 27th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Aw sweet link Miker! I had no idea there was this whole sub-culture devoted to this type of shit. I could spend hours looking at these photos. Very cool!