![]() As I got older my urban exploration took a back seat but every time I see an abandoned building I can’t help but feel the urge to wonder it’s hallways and see what is inside. Phenomenal book! It brings me back to the days when I was a teenager and I used to go to the abandoned mental hospital in my town (Haverford State Hospital). Step inside a steam locomotive and 1950s trolley cars which now lie rusting and dormant, obsolete in the face of new technology.These once hosted sell-out performances, but now lay silent and lost. Sit in forgotten theatres, covered with dust.Walk through dark school and hospital corridors which have been left to rot.See ecclesiastical architecture in several abandoned churches, forsaken by their congregation.Learn the history of 21 derelict and disused locations, from the boom-times to their decline into redundancy.Explore the forgotten past of Pennsylvania through 135 high-quality photographs.This book explores the beauty that lies in these forgotten places, often hiding in plain sight on the streets of Pennsylvania. One by one, these hidden treasures are lost as time and the world moves on around them. The steam locomotives and trolley cars lie rusting and disused, obsolete in the face of new technology. Forgotten theatres, once hosting sell-out performances, now lay silent and lost. ![]() Abandoned churches lay discarded, as small scattered congregations merge together. After the mass exodus, a wealth of infrastructure was rendered obsolete. ![]() Families left in droves in search of work and a better life elsewhere. Factories and steel mills closed, one by one. There were jobs and opportunities aplenty. At the start of the twentieth century, migrants were drawn to the up-and-coming industrial giant that was Pennsylvania. Behind closed doors and hidden deep in forests, there are decaying secrets waiting to be discovered. The cities of Pennsylvania are littered with redundant relics. Description Full Excerpt (from back cover)
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