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I actually have one in my "Florida" set. There is just something about abandoned pools that is interesting, ain't it?
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Care to dive in?
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I found this one at an abandoned campground off of Interstate 40 in Arizona.
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Mmmmm... abandoned pool yummy goodness...
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Far out, these pics are fantastic! Keep them coming!!
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Here you should find plenty of empty pool pics.
www.flickr.com/groups/emptypool/
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do you find any pool toys in them? deflated?
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just wanted to add:
www.flickr.com/photos/gbmcinephoto/472948451/
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Just uploaded a 5 pic set called "Lost Summer" of an abandoned pool in my neighborhood. Have long been fascinated with abandoned things, but this is the first time photographing them. Enjoy.
This reminds me of a place here in West Virginia, in a remote area called Cranberry Ridge. Totally uninhabited and accessible only with a four-wheel-drive, but when you come to the top of this huge hill, there's a clearing, a house foundation, and a huge chimney. And, over near the edge of the woods is a complete in-ground concrete pool that is probably well over 50 years old. The house was built by a wealthy man long ago, but when the house burned down, he abandoned the property altogether. It's been years since I've seen that or even thought of it, but it was probably that experience that really piqued my interest in abandoned places.
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here's another
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This thing was sludgey black, completely full (this hotel had to have been abandoned for awhile, yet there appeared to be no evaporation loss), and had a 1.75L empty bottle of Smirnoff floating in it. We weren't able to get inside, which is probably good - I can't imagine how it must have smelled in there.
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Festy! Freaky!
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Ugh - I'll have to see if I can find the photographer's name, but someone in a Toronto gallery showed an amazing collection of abandoned swimming pools in suburban New Orleans (8 mo. after Katrina, I think).
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Abandoned Sun Tan Lake Resort: New Jersey
It was the largest man made pool in NJ at one point.
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all these photos are wonderful. Pools left to the forces of nature in this way are so sad especially when taken in b/w.
Theres something almost spooky about "upshift" photo number 2 above. Its very eerie.
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And:
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A pool shell sitting on the side of the road in rural Botswana:
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Years ago I used to swim at a place called Shady Lane. It was a swimming pool that had a small stream feeding it. You had to go down a dirt road off the highway to get there. There was a diving board at the end where the water spilled over. The walls were cement. There was sand beaches. There were picnic tables sitting higher up around the swimming hole. There was a sliding board near the parking lot behind the refreshment stand. My neighbors say it was Sun Tan Lake. I remember it as Shady Lane. I saw the picture from Sun Tan here I am hoping someones can tell me how big Sun Tan was. Shady Lane was only a hundred feet or so long. It also had a pile of rocks in the water where a spring feed the pool. Anybody? It was off RT23 somewhere
John
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Whilst not my pic, I love this image of the old Spa baths in my town of Buxton in Derbyshire, UK.
Hopefully this will be back to it's former glory in the next few years.
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Another addition from Africa:
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Here's the swimming pool at Pripyat / Chernobyl from my recent trip!
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The funny thing is I don't live in a town with a whole heck of a lot of abandoned things. Real estate is just too valuable. This property is actually scheduled to be developed as houses soon, but of course is hung up in the courts over zoning.
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This is a great thread. Here's my oh-so-discrete english example:
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I found this one in Kentucky, near Cumberland Falls. The depth of the dark water (see the peeling "8" on the side) was what I found really unsettling.
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An Indoor abandoned pool in the UK - what a rare find!
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From Japan
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Great pics! if anyone knows an abandoned pool in Holland, please contact me! :)
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ive got some pics of abandoned slides im about to put on this group..hope you like tham also. some really nice photos here
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italy - porto s. margherita (caorle)
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took these the other day. i kept going by the pool and finally my curiosity won over.. even though i'm pretty sure i've got abandoned-pool-o-phobia. :P
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Some great shots in this thread!
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Another one from Switzerland:
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I found two at the same motel, although I didn't get much of a picture of one.
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some really cool shots in here!
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Ooh, ooh... I have two for you:
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Arlington Baths - Glasgow
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www.flickr.com/photos/stupidpig/409980618/
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Some abandoned swimmingpools:
Gr, Bart
www.urban-travel.org
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Dun Laoghaire Baths Dublin
www.sebastiandooris.com/Gallerys/DunLaoghaireBaths2007-PT...
www.sebastiandooris.com/Gallerys/DunLaoghaireBaths2007-PT...
Full Set here
www.sebastiandooris.com/Gallerys/DunLaoghaireBaths2007-PT2/
www.sebastiandooris.com/Gallerys/DunLaoghaireBaths2007-PT1/
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Gr, Bart
www.urban-travel.org
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Hi, i have no pool pics,but have enjoyed looking at this fantastic collection of work,thanks.
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Empty pools make me quite sad for some reason. =( Here's one on the 6th floor of a Sheradon...
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love abandoned places, and pools are especially awesome.
here's one i took a while back...
i have more of this hotel and other abandoned places on my stream..
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Sutro pools rhuins in San Francisco.
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MORE HERE! >>> League of the Empty Pool
I would love to see some of the above added to this group! ;)
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www.hobart.k12.in.us/ksms/AmerSym/LincolnMemorial.jpg
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I didn't get the opportunity to photograph them, but there are a couple of really great abandoned pools at a The Timber Cove Inn along the coast of California, about 2 hours North of San Francisco.
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Theres always Victoria Baths near me in Manchester-beautiful building, fnally being restored after a great deal of media exposure,well photographed because of it- plenty of pics on flickr...
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Do any of you happen to live in California and have access to the "Spider Pool" ??
In the 1950s there were several stag magazine photos shot at some exotic locale in California (I assume near Hollywood) where there was a big tile wall with a spider on it. I can try to dig up some info online. Someone unlocked the mystery of the location recently and it's still around to be photographed (I think!)
It'd be cool to see some high res photos of the place.
Now don't go clicking on this if you're at work, because there are photos of nude women (from the 1950s) on this blog, but it details the events that led up to finding the spider pool again after all those years!
spiderpool.blogspot.com/
If any of you are in the area and could snag me a piece of broken tile that still remains on site, I'd be happy to pay you for it!
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Found this on google earth and then went out to find it! yes, about 8,000miles from where I live. Rather disappointed to find it abandoned.
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It's really cool that you all like abandoned pools! My fellow skateboarders and I have much love for these things. Well, at least the ones with transitions (curved bottoms). Very good pics!
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They must have AIDS.
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Sweetness.
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found a nice selection of abandoned pools in san bernadino from a site called "polar inertia journal online" - found it facinating. The text there says that after the 2003 fires in San Bernadino these are the empty lots with their pools.
www.polarinertia.com/sep05/pool01.htm
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This is what remains of the swimming pool at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco Texas. Its dark water was eerie and lifeless on this winter day.
It is made of rough concrete and was obviously created by the followers of David Koresh and not a pool company. It was only a dozen or so yards away from here that many of the children that had played in the pool were hidden in a bunker and consumed by fire when the FBI retook the compound.
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in kabul, afghanistan, ca. 2003. empty pool atop Bibi Mahro hill.
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On october 29 2007, in the city of Enschede, the Netherlands, 600.000 ltrs of water disappeared overnight from the Aquadrome swimmingpool . The leak has not yet been found. Will the people of Enschede ever be able to swim again in the Aquadrome? Only time will tell.
see also: Enschede a/zee
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These are from a pool complex in Bridgeton, Missouri that was bought out by Lambert St. Louis Airport along with Carrollton Subdivision that had about 2,000 homes of which most are destroyed. More about it here:
56 Houses Left
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Town builds pool
People use pool
People stop using pool
People complain that they are subsidising the pool with their local taxes as there are not enough people passing the turnstiles
Pool gets closed
People complain that pool has closed
Group joins to fight and get pool re-opened
TBC...
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One from Holland:
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This one is the former YMCA pool in Buras, LA, post-Katrina. The eye of the hurricane went right over Buras, and more or less leveled the town. 18 months later, the pool is a mix of brackish salt and fresh water, with a few small crabs living in it. The blue cinderblocks behind are what is left of the locker rooms.
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Glad to see this thread is still going. Here's one from southern California:
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Seen in Arizona, in a small town Coolidge, south of Phoenix:
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Mccarren pool Brooklyn NY
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this was an old nice one which has been gone.......for a mall
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Excellent thread. Lately I've been having dreams about abandoned,empty, indoor swimming pools, so this was a great find.
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Just found this thread, and I see "bthnybrtn" posted a shot of this same pool about six months ago, but I thought I'd update it with two shots of mine. Appears to be a bit more water in it than when she was there. The roof collapse no doubt helps the water level.
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Tinside Lido, Plymouth Hoe (UK):
This sea-filled swimming pool was on the verge of being concreted over a few years ago. Thankfully though, they decided to renovate it and it is used by thousands of people each summer as a safe, clean swimming pool. But it looks very 'abandoned' each winter when it's closed! That's a fountain you can see in the middle and at night during the summer, the whole pool is illuminated with changing-coloured lights.
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Its not exactly an abandoned pool, but here are some pictures from the abandoned Surf Cincinnati water park.
www.flickr.com/photos/gyopi/sets/72157601100535240/
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these photos make me feel sad, actually.....
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I am haunted by these images. I love them. I'll try to upload a few if I can figure out how to do it.
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Near San Francisco:
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Using Flickr's new photo stats function, I see that the photo I posted in this discussion, and many others, have been used by a Japanese magazine called gigazine.net, see here.
I had reserved all rights for my photo this is slightly annoying, particuly because the site is full of paid advertisments.
Anyone else who reserved all rights to their shot feel annoyed about this??
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That's why I got so many views on my swimming pool photos then!!
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Unfortunately i don't run across many abandoned pools here in Washington. However, when I turned a corner deep in this building and saw this pool I imediately thought of this group...
There are a few more shots of this in my stream. This building was magnificent.
~D
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Has anyone though off cleaning up one off these pools use them for your own use? Personally I try to fix up one of the indoor ones.
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