Abandoned Demolished Buildings
Commenters reminisce about historical buildings, landmarks, and sites that have been abandoned, demolished, or redeveloped, sharing personal stories, Street View links, and regrets over their loss.
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Looks like they're rebuilding on the same corner.
Sadly, it doesn't look that good anymore. It's all boarded up with a "coming soon" sign for something that's probably some sort of elaborate scam on it. Pretty sad, actually.
It's a shame that that lobby's been closed to the public for decades. Seems like it would have been an interesting place to kill a half hour or so on an idle saturday. Though if you go around the corner on the street view, you can see them doing work on the well, bringing in a crane of some sorthttps://goo.gl/maps/w6ujppKu2TDVVSdG9
Phased out during my lifetime. I grew up with them as part of the suburban architecture, e.g. <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/DUNHAM-BUSH+LIMITED/@50.8634181,-0.9695587,3a,75y,108.58h,97.58t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sN6UUND2iDzt6tS8Il4_qlw!2e0!5s20090601T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-7.57819719993347%26panoid%3DN6UUND2iDzt6tS8Il4_qlw%26yaw%3D108.57748296
too bad that with this having been knocked down in the early 90's, there won't be any 3D scan of the thing...
Not sure how it's relevant to HN, but as someone who passes through Penn almost every day, an interesting read. A real shame - looking at those pictures I can't even imagine that it used to look like that.
I'm sorry I was not able to find what you are looking for. The terms you used were too generic, not specific to the article I used google with building site:https://news.ycombinator.com"building Worse" site:https://news.ycombinator.com and other terms with a 1 year cutoff but nothing with lots of pictures was shown on the fi
I think calling a former/defunct bank location "abandoned" is a stretch.
History, yes. The actual obsolete building housing humans, no.
Reminds me of Bell Labs.https://www.abandonedamerica.us/bell-labs