I’ve Been Used
April 18th, 2007 by Nick
Posted in Des Moines, Buildings, Streets, Downtown, Graffiti | 3 Comments
Urban exploration from a safe distance… Outside the buildings. I’d love to go inside but the whole breaking and entering thing is overrated. Unlike large cities, Des Moines is real quick to board up entries to abandoned buildings.
Mad skills with bricks. They just don’t do brick laying like this anymore, it was an art.
Above ground wiring and terminations are sexy
The Crane Co. building’s sole use is as as a tower for cell phone antennaes. The wiring rises up the side of the building to the top. There’s a short mast on top.
Dwarfed. It’s days are limited.
Work needed
Unbreakable
Take pride in safety.
Scrap heap overflowing.
The end of a street. Mounds and mounds of junk. People actually live next to this disaster.
Parker Oil Company, Conoco. For lease.
Saturday, September 8th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
What is the address for Parker Oil Company and where is that dwarfed building located? And what’s the building with the graffiti on the door?
Monday, December 17th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Never mind. I know where they are now. The graffiti on the door is also on the ‘dwarfed’ building. I think that building is also called the Lovejoy Building. And I now know where Parker Oil is.
SAY NICK — There’s a building on 212 E 3rd Street. Take some pictures of that. There’s another abandoned building (i believe) kinda next to the Vine Street Lofts; it’s on 2nd Street and it’s also near Buzzard Billy’s. And I think there’s a 3rd abandoned building next to Rocket Transfer Warehouse. It’s (not Rocket Transfer) on Southwest 8th Street and it has the green boarded up windows. I would love to see what the insides of those buildings look like. Check em out, take pictures or videos, and you can post them here or on a new photoblog.
~Thomas
Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 4:13 pm
ANOTHER COMMENT:
That building with the white boarded up windows is Sioux Plating and it’s owned by Jerome Geller. He also owns the building next to that.
And I also found out that Rocket Transfer Warehouse is indeed abandoned. My mother’s cousin and his wife used to go to Schmitt & Henry (the green boarded up windows building next to Rocket Transfer) and found out that Schmitt & Henry Manufacturing has been abandoned since the late 1960’s. Be careful though when you explore. If you’re to hyperactive, then you might be behind bars.
Urban exploration is one of my definite hobbies to find out.
~Thomas