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Great website. Keep up the good work. Some amazing photography here. Simply beautiful.

i am looking for the woman sara rose that posted an article on this site about our lady of the highlands my name is linda calvert and i agree with her r castle should still be standing. we r on facebook

I, too, had some great times living and growing up in Gary. I lived in Glen Park and went to Glen Park Elementary School on 39th and Broadway. I loved reading the posts from PJ and others, talking of the Beauty Spot, the bakery, and Harvey's, where we often for quick shopping. I got my first Barbie at Harvey's. My dad worked at Inland Steel, and from that sent 7 children to college and some to grad school. I loved walking everywhere, feeling safe, and enjoying the mixtures of different cultures of European nationalites. I lived on Jackson Street, the 40th block, for seveal years, then to 44th Avenue and attended one year at Riley, with a fantastic teacher, Ralph Gonzalez, whom I stayed in touch with throughout college. Any Glen Park students out there.. now around 50 years old? I loved that place, and it tears my heart to see my old neighborhoods in such devastation, when they were truly manicured and well maintained. I thank Gary for providing my Dad with a good job, and for providing us with a good and friendly neighborhood. We moved away in 1973, as I remember my father saying he was afraid the city was on the verge of beginning decline, and he was offered a job an a new company opening in New Madrid, Missouri. We moved away, but I treasure every second of my time in Gary.

thanks for sharing all this fasinating photos~ive been looking for these recently and they are gorgeous and impressive(help alot when im out of inspiration~
you make my day all the time~ ~ hope its ok to place the link of this website in my blog~=P

I LOVE THIS WEBSITE!It's has everything I ever wanted to see!I love to watch places like those hospitals etc...Thank you so much for these pictures!

In a search of abandoned places in my area google linked me to this site. Really amazing how many places you visited, and, not to forget beautiful pictures. I just can't stop to look

I stumbled across this site. Thank you for showing others how we the tax paying citizen have been force to live. I was born and raised in Gary, have been here for 54 years. Everything I saw and read is so true. I myself can't leave just yet because of my job and retirement. When that time comes I too will be leaving. I have been here to long-living in these conditions. I don't think I will ever see Gary the was it was when I was a child. So sad.

Hey, just stumbled across this link today. Looks like a great mine.

www.interactivearchitecture.net

Hey all...

We will be in Paris again in March 2011 and we are eager to meet up with some Parisian locals for a Urbex/subterainian style tour of Paris.
We are members of a UK/European Urbex forum (talkurbex.com) and would really enjoy a Parisian Urbex adventure uniting common curiosity for thing behind locked doors.
Email:
dynamicphotographic@googlemail.com

...great pics! I've been doing a bit of exploring around Paris, but still baby steps.

Is this the place that was a hospital during The Battle of the Bulge, World War ll? If so my father was a US Army physician here. Please let me know, if someone still knows..

Hi,

Excellent! Great! You're maybe the only ones I cn share with the following experience: A few years ago, I crossed a city in full confusion: the promoters(developers) transformed this old health resort into an insipid place. My glance was attracted by a pretty villa of the 19th century and suddenly, I was invaded by a deep sadness and my eyes misted of tears. I saw then the panel which announced the next demolition of this house.
The pain which I felt was the one of this house, a home which irradiated the happiness and protected those disappeared that it had to shelter.

By looking at your magnificent photos, I have the same feeling. Thanks for sharing!

All the best

Michelle

Probably your best pictures yet Sylvain.
Those of us unable to undertsake the adventure ourselves are taken there via your photographs.
Thank you.
Warmest wishes,

Anne x

A great 10,000 acre site on public land. Miles of underground!

Check out gnal.insidious-cunning.com for pictures, maps and history!

We have visited Norwich, Mansfield, Fairfield Hills, Seaside Sanitarium , Connecticut Valley Hospital and Wingdale in New York. Does anyone have any info on the location of "Connecticut Training School for Feebleminded at Lakeville" in Connecticut.
BCM58@AOL.COM Brian

This place is actually very haunted . So many people died there and i used to work there . It would still be in operation if it wasnt for john rowland . Now the patients just walk and live on our streets in norwich and some still live in those buildings cause thats all they know as home. I realy feel sry for these people . They should clean it up and u it as a tourest attraction for people interested . But any questions i can help u with feel free to email me at dbocese@gmail.com

I've just finished watching and reading your entire website and enjoyed all your posts, even the one star rated. Thank you!!!

Hi

Just to say that it's rather offensive to me that you use the English St.George flag to highlight the UK. As i'm sure you're aware, 4 countries make up the UK, and the combined flag is the Union Jack. Personally I think it would look better with the Welsh dragon in the middle, but that's another debate!

Other than that, love the photography

John

I was born and raised in Gary. Attended Froebel High School 1951 Grad. I have fond memories of Gary and still have relatives living in Gary. It was a beautiful place to grow up in and I have so many good memories. I left Gary and went to College and then enlisted in the Air Force and retired. I think the decline of Gary started with the steel industry going down the drain. Cheaper steel from overseas. We all know the city was built for one reason the steel industry. I never lived in Gary after I left, but visited family members regular. I will always remember my last basketball game. We lost to Lafayette Jeff by one point in the regional, we had a 25 and 1 record. Some of my team mates, Vladamir Gastavich. John More. Koval, Walter Asberry, Gene Nickles. Coach Kyle, Coach Maddox to name a few.

hi, this is a great website!!
everytime when i watch it or show it to a friend, we are astonished !

i wanted to ask you where u get these pictures from?
do u really visited all these countrys and bulidings?

if its so.. and you want to visit germany anytime.. than you may visit "Illenau" ?
-> www.illenauer-waldfriedhof.de/html/bilder.html its a very creepy place, they say there are ghosts on the cemetery and in the building behind the cemetery.. they brought people there to have a "euthanasie - a nice death" they had gaschambers and some f*** up stuff like that

my friends and me saw it incedentally and were amazed about this big building, so we googeled it ..

maybe your're interessted in this too, its near France (strasbourg)

Sry 4 my bad english :/ greetz from germany

WOW! I grew up there from 1967-1980 when all the whites bolted outa Gary! We moved to Chesterton and I no alot of my friends moved to Portage and other surronfing towns! Im absolutly speechless over your Photos! I think its shock! I lived in Aetba a small suburb in Gary ..Miller? Theres nothing left at all of my home I grew up in as a child! Its a Slab of concrete and weeds! Ty for sharing those photos! I was looking at them and next thing I knew I was crying! Its just like Life After People! I will never be able to get those images out of my head! Ty so much for reminding me exactly where I Came From!!!! God Bless You! Kathy Lyman-Moser

HI i worked at Hudson River for 20 years and yes its haunted. You can also get in to the tunnels from the main building they are all over the grounds. They go under route 9 to the river what hudson river use to own called the boat house the employees use to go there for lunch or just to enjoy their selfs.

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My family history starts in Gary. My mother's parents came to Gary from Czechoslovakia when she was two. My Grandfather worked for Armor. My father's family came to Gary before he was born. His father also worked for Armor. My mom's house was on the "states" side of Broadway in Glen Park (Louisiana Street). My father's was on the "presidents" side (Van Buren). They both went to Lew Wallace, got married, moved to Miller and then eventually back to Glen Park. We lived at 40th and Ohio. My brothers and sisters and I all went to Riley, then Bailey then Lew Wallace (except me -- we moved out of Gary before I was in high school).

I remember ALWAYS feeling safe in the world of Gary. My mom would walk us to Broadway and we'd take the bus downtown to Sears. I remember the candy counters at the dowtown Sears store. We'd ride our bikes to Scarsdale pharmacy, the Glen Park Library on Broadway, The Glenn... and on weekends my parents took us to the Beauty Spot (on Broadway) and sometimes -- special occasions -- to San Remos. We'd play at the amusement parks at the Y&W and Kiddie Land, and go to jack Spratz ice cream parlor in miller after having Chinese at Ming Ling.

I remember riding my bike all over gary at as early an age as 5. Only once did I ever get scared when some other neighborhood of kids tried to hijack my bike. Other than that, I'd ride as far west as The Village shopping center and as far east as as the lake villiage.

The 38th street pool and ball park was where we spent our entire summers.

Will never again have a cake as good as the one's that came from the Glen Park Bakery.

Just wishing luck to all urban explorers.

I was born in Gary, Indiana in 1950. My father, was in the Coast Guard and he met my mother in New York during World War II. I had two brothers, Wayne and Mark.

It pleases me to see people remember Gary fondly. Unfortunately, the memories remain. The city doesn't.

In 1964, I starred in West Side Story at Andrean High School. I starred opposite Lois Bogee and the play was a hit and a miss. It was a hit because so many people - Father McKinnon got men to sing who had never sung before. Unfortunately, because Lois was black the city was in an uproar. Imagine! A white boy kissing a black girl! But wasn't that the point of West Side Story?

I will be contacting those of you who have refreshed my memories of my boyhood town. I have nearly completed a a three pronged book that deals with my boyhood in Gary, my education in Fort Worth and my maturation in NYC.

My fondest memories were: Gleason Park Golf (both courses), Slushes at the Dairy Queen, Marquette Park and Oscar Hammond and the ??? playing loud, arrogant rock and roll that the girls danced to and the boys watched and smoked. I remember (seriously) making out at the Dunes theater, Tivoli Tap, my dad's bar The Silver Grill, Andrean High School and much, much more.

For those of you interested. My brother Wayne died at his own hand many years ago. To those of you who remembered him I would appreciate a note.

I'll post more often now that this unique site has been made available to ex-pats like me. Bye Gary. I knew thee well.

I was born in Gary, Indiana in 1950. My father, was in the Coast Guard and he met my mother in New York during World War II. I had two brothers, Wayne and Mark.

It pleases me to see people remember Gary fondly. Unfortunately, the memories remain. The city doesn't.

In 1964, I starred in West Side Story at Andrean High School. I starred opposite Lois Bogee and the play was a hit and a miss. It was a hit because so many people - Father McKinnon got men to sing who had never sung before. Unfortunately, because Lois was black the city was in an uproar. Imagine! A white boy kissing a black girl! But wasn't that the point of West Side Story?

I will be contacting those of you who have refreshed my memories of my boyhood town. I have nearly completed a a three pronged book that deals with my boyhood in Gary, my education in Fort Worth and my maturation in NYC.

My fondest memories were: Gleason Park Golf (both courses), Slushes at the Dairy Queen, Marquette Park and Oscar Hammond and the ??? playing loud, arrogant rock and roll that the girls danced to and the boys watched and smoked. I remember (seriously) making out at the Dunes theater, Tivoli Tap, my dad's bar The Silver Grill, Andrean High School and much, much more.

For those of you interested. My brother Wayne died at his own hand many years ago. To those of you who remembered him I would appreciate a note.

I'll post more often now that this unique site has been made available to ex-pats like me. Bye Gary. I knew thee well.

I grew up in the shadows of Gary in Hobart and East Gary, now known as Lake Station. Iremember going to athletic meets in Gary, shopping at Goldblattes at Christmas with my grandmother, Miller beach and Marquette Park. I moved away in 1980 and moved back to South Bend in 1997. , and back to Texas in 2003. Now I am moving back to Vlparaiso. Every time Gary has drawn me back. I think that at one time it was a beautiful city. Now it is just memories. I have friends that Gary Fireman, my grandfather and Dad both retired from USS.
It's just funny how when ever I go back to Indiana, Gary is a top priority to see for me. I guess it will never leave me.

I was born in Gary in 43' At age 5 moved to Creston Iowa, then came back in 58' to attend my senior yr at Lew Wallace (graduated in 61') Does anyone remember the Dick DeWayne Combo? The Hitch Hikers? I was the drummer of both groups. Remember The Redwood Lounge? We playd there for a few yrs too. I love this site. Remember Lido's Drive-In resturant on 51st right east of Broadway? My Uncle owned the place, so I ended up bein the cook Made lot of friends there. Still tryin to figure out the name of the drive-in resturant in Miller We drag raced are cars there on weekends til the cops showed up! It was right before the Y where 12 & 20 seperated Anyone can e-mail me at: JetBlueMusic@aol.com ........... Thanks