(Sort of) Urban Exploring

Today I went with my two favorite shooting companions to explore some broken down building in Okeechobee, Fl. We saw an old bank attached to the (office?) of an oil company. The old bank is supposedly haunted. The Gilbert's Oil Company had a modern a/c window unit so I don't know when it was abandoned. The building was in serious disrepair though.

Along the way there were some random shots. Traffic lights and old payphones being amongst those


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We also found what seemed to be an old apartment building. There were several front doors, some with masterlocks and others being held closed by cinder block/lack of doorknob, nothing too difficult to breach if one wanted to squat. There were still curtains in the windows and it was up for sale, but it would be a fixer-upper for sure. The building was in such a dilapidated state. The back door to the house seemed to be more out of the way of the public view. We supposed that if their were squatters this is how they entered, but that was pure assumption. There was smaller green shed around back and the three of us heard something definitely human from that general area. So we decided it was time to get out of there.







Of course, we found beauty amid destruction.

We headed off in Courtney's LANmobile to destinations unknown and most certainly awesome. But that will be the next post...


P.S. This post was kind of image heavy so I posted the pictures smaller. Click on any one to enlarge it!!