Lost America ::::: Urban Exploration



	THE END OF THE LINE 2005 The abandoned Southern Pacific Station in Oakland, California.

	SECOND FLOOR LANDING 2007 The abandoned Beaux Arts Bethlehem Steel offices in San Francisco, CA. Closed and uninhabited (except for a pack of feral cats) since 1989.

	A CASE OF THE PINS 2008 Abandoned bowling alley.

	VICTORIAN HAUNTING 2007 Sam's Castle, Pacifica, California.

	THE STAIRCASE 2005 Byron Hot Springs Hotel, Byron California. Built in the 1930s, used for POW interrogations during WWII. Abandoned for decades, many say it's haunted.

	JEAN ANNE 2007 Car carrier ship in the drydock at the BAE shipyard in San Francisco, California.

	OVERVIEW 2005 Sad and forgotten, the once stately Byron Hot Springs Hotel vainly tries to hide from vandals behind its screen of swaying palms.

	GRAND STAIRCASE 2005 The lavish first floor vestibule of a long derelict shipyard office building slumbers. These offices oversaw the construction of 18 Destroyers during the Second World War. Salvagers recently stole the brass railings from these stairs and vandals destroyed the rest.

	LEBOWSKI DREAM SEQUENCE 2007 Abandoned bowling alley.

	LIME ACCORDION 2008 The 1980s vintage International terminal at San Francisco International Airport. Abandoned in 2003. Slated for demolition in late 2008.

	THE PHOENIX TROTTING PARK 1999 This Italian designed, Googie masterpiece was built in 1965 by east coast gambling interests. It closed after only 2 seasons and has been empty ever since. It was engulfed in a tremendous fireball for the B-film “No Code of Conduct” in 1998, blowing out most of the windows and killing hundreds of roosting birds.

	WINGBACKS 2005 The 16th Street train station, Oakland, California.

	RED VALVES 2005 At the Hercules Powder Works, Hercules, CA, a 19th century dynamite factory. Closed in 1977, torn down and subdivided in 2006.

	DUTY FREE 2008 The 1980s vintage International terminal at San Francisco International Airport. Abandoned in 2003. Slated for demolition in late 2008.

	KITTY 2004 Dead and desiccated Siamese cat inside the Madam's home attached to Bobbie's Buckeye Bar, Tonopah, Nevada, an abandoned bar and whorehouse. Did the Madam go into hospital and leave her kitty to starve? Abandoned for about a year before I found it (judging by the expired liquor license), the place was unlocked and wide open that day, but on my last trip to Tonopah it was locked up tight.

	LANE PORN 2007 Abandoned bowling alley.

	THE VISTA 2008 The 1980s vintage International terminal at San Francisco International Airport. Abandoned in 2003. Slated for demolition in late 2008.

	SIX RED LIGHTS 2007 This dingy corner office overlooks a quiet, late-night industrial neighborhood. This office block was the nerve center of San Francisco's shipyards, overseeing the construction of 72 ships during WWII.

	CRANEPORN 2008 Pier 70, the San Francisco waterfront.

	DUST MAGNET 2007 Sam's Castle, Pacifica, California.

	CIRCLE WORLD 2007 Abandoned bowling alley.

	MAROON VELVET 2007 Sam's Castle, Pacifica, California.

	IN AND OUT 2005 At the Hercules Powder Works, Hercules, CA, a 19th century dynamite factory. Closed in 1977, torn down and subdivided in 2006.

	RADIATOR GLOW 2007 The ladies powder-room off the 4th floor theater in the 1917 Bethlehem Steel offices in San Francisco, California.

	PANTRY 2007 Blown out kitchen wall at the abandoned Byron Hot Springs resort.

	NOT RADIOACTIVE 2007 Building 351, the 1945 Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory offices at the abandoned Hunters Point Shipyards.

	HEAD BUSTER 2007 The basement at Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco. This was undoubtedly hung by a "copper miner" (salvage thieves who break into abandoned buildings to strip out pipes and wiring and end up destroying the building from the inside out) who was tired of whacking his head on that broken pipe.

	HOT SPOT 2007 On the grounds of the Byron Hot Springs Hotel. As we were leaving about midnight I saw a tiny glow in the distance. This brush fire had happened that day and was still smoldering when we left at midnight. How much longer before this "fireproof" hotel burns to the ground? Does the pyromaniacal douchebaggery know no bounds?