Texaco Hooksett, NH

[Caldor1999]

hears the Newington Caldor withc has been abandoned for 7 years now its a really creepy looking caldor to thi s store is bacley located in teh middle of no were behing a wooded swampy aeira

[Caldor1999]

hears the back of the store

[BillyGr]

Great Asbury photos - I have a few notes for them:

The shot - Another old Building (which is next to the Casino) was a power plant years ago.
Casino - The plan is to tear down the part of the building which is over the sand (in the photo it's to the left of the Boardwalk) and reconstruct it historically similar to match.  The rest of the building (over the boardwalk and out to the street) will be restored.
The shot of the pavillions (buildings along the Boardwalk) - a couple years ago some of those looked just as bad as the other buildings, so they have done a good renovation on the one with the green awnings.
People - Again, a couple years back you wouldn't have seen more than 4 or 5 people in any of the boardwalk shots.
Lastly - The "new" hotel in the one shot is the Empress - it isn't new (was probably one of the newer buildings in town - which still makes it 50's/60's vintage) but has been completely remodeled.

Now, back to topic - Here's an abandoned house just off Route 7 in Latham (behind the former Edwards store site - now medical buildings)

[store215]

The town next to me has so many empty spaces :(

*A closed Eckerd, later a dollar store, now empty
*Empty Silo Appliances (a 2-floor store) --> i goldberg --> some independent furniture store, now empty
*Empty Coconuts Music store, closed a month or two ago
*Empty Caldor/Ames/Burlington Coat Factory (closed a year or two back)
^all the above are in the same shopping center too
:o

*An empty OfficeMax (closed in March, 2004)
*An empty Pathmark (closed in January)
*An empty Rickel Hardware (pathmark owned)-->Staples, closed 3 weeks ago.

Plus some smaller shops in the many shopping centers

[BillyGr]

Both of these are in Hudson (Greenport) on Route 9 - The first two pictures are right next to the McDonald's (in the 2nd you can see a piece of their parking lot) - the building housed several things over the years, I just happen to remember the cleaners.  There was a fire there about, I'd say 10 years(maybe a couple more) ago, and since the building has sat as you see it.  I don't know why the car and dumpster are there - there aren't any other buildings in front of it (it sits back a bit from the road) and I'm sure no one is using either building.

The 3rd shot is a former single screen theatre, which looks like it sits in the middle of nowhere - it doesn't really as to the left was the site of the original Hudson Jamesway/Price Chopper complex and to the left the original Hudson McDonald's (now a church after being an Italian restaurant that was always getting bomb threats!).  The theater has been closed for a good 10-12 years, but was open after the rest of the buildings had been vacated.

[BillyGr]

The first shot is a former Agway-style farm supply store on Route 9 in Southern Columbia County (never knew why it was considered Germantown Co-op as G'Town is more along Route 9G, but anyway...)

The 2nd (large) photo is old gas pumps (and part of a small building behind them) also on Route 9 - in that area there are at least 3 similar buildings, however this is the only one that has the pumps as well.

The mini photo stuck in is the cold storage warehouse in Albany (just off I-787).

The next 3 shots are all on Route 23B coming into Hudson from Route 9H.  The big and lefthand small ones are parts of a former plant property (a part is still used today by ADM) - this property stretches to the Claverack Creek (if anyone is in/familiar with the area, that's the creek where there was a landslide a month or two ago - there was a previous slide that swallowed one of the buildings on the plant property many years ago).  The 3rd is a house that sits on the "point" where 23B bears right and a street goes left toward Columbia Memorial Hospital.

The last two are of a building labelled "Lindy's Lunch" - this is on Route 9W South of Port Ewen, NY (which is just south of Kingston) - it has been abandoned for (I'm guessing here) a minimum of 20 years (I never remember seeing it in use, and it seems the first time I did see it it was already in a deteriorating state).

[BillyGr]

This is a (kind of) abandoned building on Route 9W/32 south of the village - not sure what it was in the past, though it does appear that someone has been working on it recently.

[Ameskid]

Going back to gas stations...
We have one abandoned BP that is one of the new ones, with the curved side of the roof over the pumps, an abandoned Marathon which still has the signs and is in the process of being gutted and has no pumps or pump-roof, another abandoned Marathon, which only has the building and entrances (no pumps), an abandoned Shell which is vacant, and yet another abandoned Marathon, which has turned into a BMW service center, and may be the only remaining one around here on which you can see the slogan "best in the long run".

[Marc82]

That Caldor in Newington, CT is going to be a Stew Lenoards. They hope to open in Januray 2007.  As for abanadoned Gas Stations there's an abandoned one on Riverside Avenue in Bristol that the city keeps talking about buying. I think there's one abandoned gas station in Southignton. Over in the area of Meriden Avenue.

[Caldor1999]

this was inside a hospital in ny i though it was funny how one of the things writtin on the wall was No to no beer make homer something something i found this from www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com  they have alot of good stuff i even have some of my caldor and bradlees pictures on there

[Caldor1999]

hears a hospital called edgewood hospital it was in deer park long island it closed in 1971 and was heavyley vandlised in the late 70's and 80's there was also a fire that happend on the roof of the tall bulding but wss never put out so it burned for days distroying the top part of the bulding parts of the complexy were torn down in late 1988 and the main bulding was imploted in 1989 all that was left over was a power plant that went down in 1990 the sight today is nothing but overgown grass and trees. hears a pic of the main bulding takeing in 1981

[Caldor1999]

hears how it looked after a fire that happend in 1983 this is a 1988 picture

[Caldor1999]

this was the elevators they had in the buldings it was filled with debriees garbage and got knows that else this was filled upp for about 5 flooors of the bulding in this 1987 picture

[Caldor1999]

this was the roof of the bulding takeing sometime in the mid 1970's it had these cowns that lookked really nice they were pobrley knocked off or stolen or something by vandles cause they were not there in the ealry 80's juggen by pics i have seen all these photos came from www.edgewoodhospital.com

[Zayre88]

Here is an abandoned former IGA supermarket.  It closed a year ago.  It was a very old and small market.  It used to have an entrance in front of the building.  The modern one was added in the 90's.  The owner started to strip the building but went bankrupt !!

[videogamer75]

Mobil is still around, they never changed their name to lukoil. Lukoil bought all the locations in NJ, NY and PA.

[Marc82]

Originally posted by videogamer75
Mobil is still around, they never changed their name to lukoil. Lukoil bought all the locations in NJ, NY and PA.

We have a Lukoil on Route 229 in Bristol, CT next to Exxon. It used to be a Texaco.

Originally it was Karl's Mobil. (Gas Station and repair place). Karl retired and shut the place down. It was ripped down and replaced with the Texaco Station.

[Ameskid]

I didn't know Lukoil bought Mobil; last I heard about Lukoil is that they were rebranding Getty stations to Lukoil.

[videogamer75]

Originally posted by Ameskid
I didn't know Lukoil bought Mobil; last I heard about Lukoil is that they were rebranding Getty stations to Lukoil.

They didn't. They just bought a bunch of Mobil locations, not the company itself.

[Ameskid]

I got lots of pictures of Asbury Park, as I stayed in Ocean Grove for the past week.  I found out that the building to your left as you enter the Casino was a black-run concession stand.  And yes, they tore down the part of the Casino on the sand.  They have also torn down that arcade building with the creepy clown face and built a cafe meant to replicate it--complete with the face--on the same location.

[videogamer75]

I gotta get up to Asbury Park someday, especially since I live in NJ and I don't have to travel too far to get to it.

[MikeRa]

Originally posted by Ameskid
I didn't know Lukoil bought Mobil; last I heard about Lukoil is that they were rebranding Getty stations to Lukoil.

Lukoil only bought the PA NJ & NY Mobil locations from ExxonMobil.  ExxonMobil, as a result of there merger, had to sell or rebrand all the Mobil stations on the East Coast to Exxon, and sell or rebrand all the Exxon stations on the West Coast to Mobil.

[MikeRa]

We have a few abandoned  former stores here in the Philadelphia area:


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• Admrial Wilson Boulevard, Camden, NJ: Former Sears Roebuck & Company store
• NE Corner Cottman Avenue & Castor Avenue: Former Lit Brothers/Clover/J.C. Penney location.  Built in 1950 by City Stores Co., the owners of Lit Brothers
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[HoJofan206]

Here is a vacant/abandoned former Super K mart/Little Ceasers combo center.

[kendra]

Here are some photos I took of an abandoned tannery in northern Penobscot County, Maine, 2006.

http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll145/kendradd/IMG_0867.jpg

http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll145/kendradd/IMG_0872.jpg

http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll145/kendradd/IMG_0874.jpg

[HoJofan206]

Great pics Kenda, but what exactly is/was a "tannery"?

[kendra]

Originally posted by HoJofan206
Great pics Kenda, but what exactly is/was a "tannery"?

Thank you!

A tannery, basically, is a place where leather is made.

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by videogamer75
I gotta get up to Asbury Park someday, especially since I live in NJ and I don't have to travel too far to get to it.

i do have some pictures i took of it back in 2005 there on here somewere but when i got there they were tearing down alot of stuff i havent been there since the beach was nice looking though i must say

[HoJofan206]

Sadly, we can now add Value City Department stores to the list of those that have come and gone.  Can anyone give a someone detailed list of department stores that have gone under since the 1980's??  :huh::huh:

[BillyGr]

Originally posted by Ameskid
They have also torn down that arcade building with the creepy clown face and built a cafe meant to replicate it--complete with the face--on the same location.

Just happened to spot this post, and wanted to add:

Actually, the building that now has the clown face (AKA Tillie) IS a bar (Wonder Bar), but that is NOT the site of the original Palace (the arcade building), rather a tribute to it.

The Palace building was across a couple streets from the Casino, just behind and to the left (looking from the Boardwalk) of the Empress Hotel.

Most of the area by the Casino had been paved and turned into a parking lot as of last summer (this had been an empty triangular lot which was between the Palace and Casino), and between that and the fact they re-routed the streets a bit - the one that runs along the lake no longer goes right in front of the Casino, rather you have to cut over in front of where the Palace was (Kingsley St) - makes it harder to place lots exactly.