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That podcast about 'preserving' abandoned places missed the point completely
That podcast about 'preserving' abandoned places missed the point completely. I was listening to some urban exploration podcast on my way to a job in Akron last Tuesday, and this guy comes on talking about how we should leave abandoned places untouched so 'history can be preserved'. Honestly, that sounds nice on paper but he's never been inside a building with a collapsed roof and a family of raccoons living in the walls. Tbh, half these places are going to fall down on their own within 10 years no matter what we do. I've been poking around old factories and farmhouses for about 5 years now, and I've seen plenty of spots where taking a few bricks or a window frame actually saved them from getting tossed in a dumpster during demolition. Ngl, if nobody documents or takes anything, the story of that place dies with the first bad storm. Has anyone else run into this weird gatekeeping about 'pure' exploration?
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troy9965mo ago
Wait, are we supposed to just let those old places rot without even saving a piece of them? I grabbed a doorknob from a falling down barn outside Columbus last year and the whole thing collapsed that winter. That knob is now sitting on my shelf and the barn is just a pile of wood chips.
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ryan_carr595mo ago
Yeah totally, that "pure" exploration gatekeeping drives me nuts. I grabbed an old metal sign from a grain elevator that was getting demo'd next week, and a month later the whole place was a pile of rubble - that sign is the only proof that building even existed.
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