YOUR A GREAT EXPLORER..THATS A BIG DROP WOW!!! CHRIS AND JAY,, I GOGGLED SYSTEMATIC ITS AUTO TECH. FOR PRINTING..IT HAD INK,, VERY COOL HISTORY VIDEO..
Hey, man, just a tip to remember when doing urban exploring: If you ever have any question as to whether flooring or stairs may collapse, but you're dead-set on exploring anyway, ALWAYS try your best to step as closely to the walls or banisters as possible. That's where any remaining structural stability will be found, and where you're the least likely to go crashing down. It was making me so nervous watching you guys go up and down those treacherous stairs when you were stepping on them close to the middle of each step. Try to remember to keep safety as your #1 priority whenever you're out exploring anywhere that's risky - especially when you're in the middle of nowhere and medical help has no quick or convenient means of reaching you.
The "typewriter" is a Burroughs F 1000 bookkeeping machine from c. ~1950. The building was likely an accounting and records office for the plant if I had to wager a guess, hence all the file boxes strewn everywhere.
Hi, Chris, at 13:15, the machine you are looking at is a Burroughs Sensimatic, which I believe to be from the early 1950's and I believe it was called a Comptomitor. I worked for Burroughs Corp. from April,1965 till about April of 1982 The Comptomitor was a forerunner of the earliest computers and I think it was all mechanical and was probably just before they started using electronics. I will start trying to learn more about Burrough's history and try to let you know what I find out, if you're interested. God Bless and stay safe.
My grandfather also worked at Burroughs in Farmington Hills, Mi. I have seen that machine in his basement with other adding machines they very cool and Heavy! keep the Great work going guys!
The wildest thing when finding places like these is imagining how in their heyday, they were places people lived, worked, thrived, now only seeing humans every so often. Valuable properties once.
You're approaching the perfect urbex mix there. A tramp through the woods, industrial monoliths and a characterful house with enough left inside to offer a little mystery.
I can't believe you guys bushwhacked that way, prob the hardest route in! Lol I love that place, been there lots of times and such a beautiful area. There are 3 trails to the cement towers that I remember, 2 from the north and 1 from the south. Lot of cool stuff in that area too like the locks, bike path, Widow Jane and the Synder Estate. Just wish people would stop vandalizing abandoned things so they can be enjoyed for more years to come. I got some cool pics in the admin "house" a few years back, nice to see it still standing and nearly unchanged.
I recognize that machine anywhere, it’s a Burroughs Alphabetic Accounting Machine. Used for accounting. I’m an accountant so yeah thank God we have computers now or that’s what we would still use. Fun huh? Great video as usual thank you great to see that. When things were still made in America. Good times.
I was just watching a video of a house being built, and now seeing this old house nearly reduced to the studs gives me such an odd feeling--to think that decades ago the same amount of attention, care, and pride went into this building, and something new and exciting was created, probably a shining moment and beacon of accomplishment to multiple people; but now it rests in sad and lonely decay, its purpose having been fulfilled, and now forgotten. Thinking back to the video of the new house, it is, in a weird way, sad to think that a similar fate may await it decades from now. A bittersweet curse of inevitability.
I can tell you exactly what all the square light blue flat box-like items upstairs in the attic at 18:03 are... 16mm film reel containers for transporting and storing large16mm movie film reels after having been developed. Those appear to be the 16" size which held up to 2000' of developed film. This is how any movies that were shown in schools, business training programs, colleges and many other applications were shipped and protected. There are both tops and bottoms visible. The film reels were put into the bottom half, then the tops were fitted over the bottoms and secured using the canvas straps that were then buckled tight to lock them closed These were in common use from the 20's through the early 80's until VHS tapes began to be used for the same kind of educational materials. Many libraries and schools still have stacks of these slowly decaying boxed film reels in deep storage. Probably over 90% of every old video you've ever seen came from these 16mm films before being copied to VHS or digitized. Any kid from the 70's on back through the 40's who took a history class (that is every kid who went to Jr High or High School) has seen these when the teacher showed films with a big projector. They just don't remember the boxes the films came in... Sometimes the boxes were a greyish tan in addition to the blue or black. Hope that was a contribution to outdated information. Sometimes we old boomers are actually useful. And in person, actually pretty cool.... ;)
Looking at that old picture of when it was in operation makes me think about all the people that must have worked there just like any other job or place & could never imagine it buried in the forest & abandoned. Another great video Chris. I've never missed one.
I had a bad accident in a workplace in the 80's and nearly died. The place was levelled many years later. It's since been used as a demo yard before it was demolished. Part of it still stands and it is now an undercover carpark, shops, apartments. My and other's blood, sweat and tears are literally in places like this. It's sad to see them gone or just left to decay. There are all sorts of stories in places like that which just end up lost in history, like most parts of life.
@@Smurphenstein I agree completely so very sad , I am so thankful to hear you survived, there is a reason you survived ! I truly believe that , I contracted covid in 02/2020 . on a ventilator for 6 days died 3 times , my DNR disappeared was found 2 weeks after I was in rehab getting my strength back, apparently I have unfinished business to attend to before I leave this planet , I do have many long covid symptoms but I am a fighter
What I gathered from the brochure I found online, it looks to be an early computing machine probably from the 60s, and would store the information on magnetic tape. That could be what all the boxes are for also.
You sir. Have some damn good content on your channel. Been a follower for a few years now and it seems that I don't skip any of your videos. Love how thorough you were with that drone. I wanted to take in every second of that chunk of history. Thanks Chris!
During the cold war many buildings were CD fallout shelters.Churches,Schools,Office buildings ect. My parochial school had barrels of survival biscuits,water,first aid kits and even several Geiger counters in the church and school basement. Common in steel mill towns.
Exactly. It was in a sheltered valley so that really would help with radioactive fallout moving with the wind. The secure file containers were once fill of info on what to do to pick up the government if it had collapsed.
The building I worked in (I retired in 2019) was built in the '50s. To this day, it has the CD shelter signs all over with arrows in various places leading to the basement. It was designed for 400 people. The found the canned biscuts, water, etc in an unused room during a remodel several years ago, all packed in 25 and 55 gallon drums. Cots were hung from the ceiling and in recesses in the walls. Geiger counters were still in wood boxes and hundreds of dosementry "pens" were also in their original protective storage condition. Interesting to see how efficiently they used the space they had available. The coffee shop in our building was originally doubled as the shelter kitchen. Very interesting the way they had everything set up, just waiting for "that day" to sadly come.
Interesting that you found a bunch of Civil Defense stuff in the house. Shortly after entering, I noticed several old telecom racks laying on the floor -- it's possible that this house was used for storage or some kind of telecom junction point. Also possible that it was from the cement plant but who knows.
My daddy retired with Martin Marietta Blue Circle Cement Shelby County Alabama. He was a mix chemist. Lab work, making the formula to add to the kilns! I loved this explore, reminds me of him. RIP DADDY! ❤
Dang, Chris! Draw a line due east across the river and you'd be where I grew up in Staatsburg, NY - was there this past weekend as a matter of fact. As for that Sensimatic, it was an bookkeeping/accounting machine by the Burroughs Company, found a few close images of ads from the 50s , so the one you saw was prob from the 60s (just a wicked assed guess). Excellent find of that office building!
15:14 Magnetic tape transmittal form - Magnetic data storage tape was used by mainframe computers. The transmittal form was required by IRS. Before the internet, if a company wanted to send a data tape to the IRS that form would be included. Data probability would have been employee W-2, or other tax info. Those boxes would have held the data tapes for transport.
Watching the video it Started looking familiar. I went in the house about 10 years ago. They look about the same as the last time I was there seem to be holding up fairly well. I Remember finding a news paper from 1981.
I wonder, who owns that land: Those deep, cylindrical man-made shafts, at the beginning of this video, need to be covered, or filled-in, obv. People/animals will fall in, and never get out.
Further up just below Catskill NY you'll find a very small town of Cementon. Half that plant is shut down. I use to go there for work. Might be all shut down by now that was 3 years ago. Its owned by Lehigh Cement last I knew.
So cool! I sometimes wish I was a guy explorer as I’m a big wimp of a girl explorer🤣 and too afraid to go this deep into the woods or plains to explore! That’s why we have you and Jay!! 🙌🤣❤️❤️
That house must have some high quality roofing material to have lasted that long. The exterior walls looked like asbestos tile. Amazing location altogether.
In the old photo of the plant in operation there’s a rail car near the silos. The railroad grade should still be there but possibly overgrown by brush from view. It could be an interesting walk to find where it went and joins the mainline, if that still exists.
Yup. I'm near 60yrs old. We learned to duck and cover under our desks when I was in school in the early 70's. One time there was a loud car crash just outside the school, our widows were open and it was very loud and sudden, and we all dove under our desks. I had nightmares for a week about bombs dropping, everything being destroyed and I couldn't find my home or my mother. It was a fear that was instilled in you at that age and time.
I am 63 and we never did the duck and cover stuff in NJ I guess they figured bring between NYC and Philadelphia we all been vaporized, though I do remember checking out a fallout shelter in my elementary school one day while the ehole school was outside for a picnic and I and a friend took a detour coming back from the bathroom.
@seesea-sv3xw Yeah. I went to a Catholic school in upstate NY. I didn't go to public school until 4th grade. So maybe the schools had different ideas on the duck and cover.
My mom used to tell me about how she would have practice nuclear drills at school when she was a little girl in the 50s and 60s. She said they’d hide under their desks and cover their heads, either with their hands or text books, in case of falling debris. She later used that same tactic when she was a young adult when her home got hit and damaged by a tornado. It saved her and her friends life. They hid under a table away from the doors and windows in their mobile home. She said if it wasn’t for the bomb drills as a girl that she wouldn’t have been prepared for a tornado.
13:30 that seems to be an electric typewriter. I found a few similar ones online, also from Sensimatic. Wanted to share the link but apparently got auto-blocked. 😅
My father worked in the lab (quality control testing) at a cement company. The lower level of that building looked just like that lab. There was also an adding machine just like that one there. My guess is the lab was on the first floor and the business/shipping office on the second. That was the arrangememt where my father worked which is now another abandoned (portland) cement company in PA.
it's probably owned by the state or govt, so I say take what you can find. there were surely dirt roads which many employees would travel over, I bet there were even small lodging buildings. belt buckles, buttons & coins...
You should get one of those Zoom spot light flashlights when exploring these places. there’s no telling what could have been in those cylinder ground shafts those lights would be perfect for looking in them. check these lights out in sporting and hunting stores.
Be careful...I grew up in this area and there are quite a few areas that are monitored by "government agencies." I grew up in Wallkill (just south of Rosendale) at the foot of the Shawangunk Mountains. There are a lot of areas there that were once used by the government for training purposes but are still monitored even though they have been abandoned. Weird stuff happens in those woods.... 🤣
in the abandoned house, you found a burroughs sensimatic industrial/architectural typewriter. a very prolific and expensive typewriter for doing blueprints and floor plans, back in its day. its truly a relic. burroughs adding machine was a cometitor to IBM in its time. also those 2x4 in the house, also look like they are actually 2x4 inches and very valueable
@@h.bsfaithfulservant4136 yeah I mean why would the gov contact people who dig holes in the earth for a living to talk about making nuclear bunker. Just some insane conspiracy!
There is a small town in the middle of the forest between St louis and Farmington... Well a big church two houses and two barns. But was believed to be an old Mormon town from the mid 1800's. Ppl just left it. The church was interesting, it had been re-painted and the outside and inside fixed up. It also had chairs and old candles set up. The path sits outside the Farmington elementy school. (You can see the path on Google maps) Follow it till it ends then follow the old creek. It dose a u shape around the town. Might still be there.
The boxes appear to have held film or magnetic tape. Probably stored old films there for a while, then they were all removed/destroyed or stolen when the property was abandoned. The attic cardboard boxes would have held the reels. The cardboard boxes would have been stored in the lockable boxes downstairs. Chances are there is probably also a decommissioned underground facility too nearby probably also used for storage in a repurposed mine. There is also the remote chance there was a civic defence supply cache stored here too, like the one they found in the rooms in the supports inside one of the bridges in new york(?? one of the cities anyway). Although that has likely long since been removed.
It either could have been used to provide cement for domestic military installations - as there were tons of random missile launch sites around the country (they're all abandoned but many still stand!) or perhaps the site itself was used for military activities. I think you should investigate the area more! heck, you'll probably find at least one more building...
Civil Defense could have been using that house and the massive concrete structures near as a possible place for some form of government to evacuate to and its far enough away from anything it wouldn't be hit by any nuclear weapons and hopefully no radioactive fallout. Being in that low valley would have been a big reason the spot was chosen as well. The many secure file containers were probably once full of plans and information on what to do if the people that made it there were to be the highest ranking government officials after a massive nuclear war. Believe it or not Civil Defense still exists. I have been a member of my local Civil Defense for many years. Granted its nothing like it used to be but we still meet every month and still have plans on top of plans for multiple large-scale disasters!
The fact that not even vandals can get to the top of the silo's is kinda refreshing. It's just a little time capsule, untouched for over 50 years. As all of it should be.
Amazing find. Looked like at very busy place a one time. I use to get under my school desk about one a month when the sirens would go off. I guess it was just something to do. 😂 Back then it would be a atomic attack. Nuclear came later.
I don't know what way you all came in from,(not true I do know which way you went in ) but there is a old drive/rd that is a little over grown leads right up to it. Did you check out the Widow Jane mine area yet??
Jays Channel. Check it out! - youtube.com/@journeywithjay?si=rZ204o7ENXVaJ9Qr
Thank you for another great video, I've been following your videos since 2016 2017
So how close to civilization is this spot
i have access to a map with over 120 abandoned locations on google earth just form South Carolina abandoned buildings.
Just to clarify, I did not cut open that fence. Looks like it's been like that for years.
YOUR A GREAT EXPLORER..THATS A BIG DROP WOW!!! CHRIS AND JAY,, I GOGGLED SYSTEMATIC ITS AUTO TECH. FOR PRINTING..IT HAD INK,, VERY COOL HISTORY VIDEO..
The house looks flooded too.
Okay. But what were those holes in the ground right there? Lacking context, but have an abundance of curiosity! 😅
Whether you cut the fence or not your still on private property. Two minutes of research
Did you really think you have to clarify that with us
Hey, man, just a tip to remember when doing urban exploring: If you ever have any question as to whether flooring or stairs may collapse, but you're dead-set on exploring anyway, ALWAYS try your best to step as closely to the walls or banisters as possible. That's where any remaining structural stability will be found, and where you're the least likely to go crashing down. It was making me so nervous watching you guys go up and down those treacherous stairs when you were stepping on them close to the middle of each step. Try to remember to keep safety as your #1 priority whenever you're out exploring anywhere that's risky - especially when you're in the middle of nowhere and medical help has no quick or convenient means of reaching you.
The "typewriter" is a Burroughs F 1000 bookkeeping machine from c. ~1950. The building was likely an accounting and records office for the plant if I had to wager a guess, hence all the file boxes strewn everywhere.
The ads for these are amazing 😂
Piece of history right there .
It's a label maker
Hi, Chris, at 13:15, the machine you are looking at is a Burroughs Sensimatic, which I believe to be from the early 1950's and I believe it was called a Comptomitor. I worked for Burroughs Corp. from April,1965 till about April of 1982 The Comptomitor was a forerunner of the earliest computers and I think it was all mechanical and was probably just before they started using electronics. I will start trying to learn more about Burrough's history and try to let you know what I find out, if you're interested. God Bless and stay safe.
That's very interesting! Thank you for sharing that information.
My grandfather also worked at Burroughs in Farmington Hills, Mi. I have seen that machine in his basement with other adding machines they very cool and Heavy!
keep the Great work going guys!
The wildest thing when finding places like these is imagining how in their heyday, they were places people lived, worked, thrived, now only seeing humans every so often. Valuable properties once.
You're approaching the perfect urbex mix there. A tramp through the woods, industrial monoliths and a characterful house with enough left inside to offer a little mystery.
Fantastic vid thanks
I can't believe you guys bushwhacked that way, prob the hardest route in! Lol I love that place, been there lots of times and such a beautiful area. There are 3 trails to the cement towers that I remember, 2 from the north and 1 from the south. Lot of cool stuff in that area too like the locks, bike path, Widow Jane and the Synder Estate. Just wish people would stop vandalizing abandoned things so they can be enjoyed for more years to come. I got some cool pics in the admin "house" a few years back, nice to see it still standing and nearly unchanged.
I recognize that machine anywhere, it’s a Burroughs Alphabetic Accounting Machine. Used for accounting. I’m an accountant so yeah thank God we have computers now or that’s what we would still use. Fun huh? Great video as usual thank you great to see that. When things were still made in America. Good times.
I was just watching a video of a house being built, and now seeing this old house nearly reduced to the studs gives me such an odd feeling--to think that decades ago the same amount of attention, care, and pride went into this building, and something new and exciting was created, probably a shining moment and beacon of accomplishment to multiple people; but now it rests in sad and lonely decay, its purpose having been fulfilled, and now forgotten. Thinking back to the video of the new house, it is, in a weird way, sad to think that a similar fate may await it decades from now. A bittersweet curse of inevitability.
A similar fate awaits us all. Live each day as if its your last. Not by partying. Do some good.
I can tell you exactly what all the square light blue flat box-like items upstairs in the attic at 18:03 are... 16mm film reel containers for transporting and storing large16mm movie film reels after having been developed. Those appear to be the 16" size which held up to 2000' of developed film. This is how any movies that were shown in schools, business training programs, colleges and many other applications were shipped and protected. There are both tops and bottoms visible. The film reels were put into the bottom half, then the tops were fitted over the bottoms and secured using the canvas straps that were then buckled tight to lock them closed These were in common use from the 20's through the early 80's until VHS tapes began to be used for the same kind of educational materials. Many libraries and schools still have stacks of these slowly decaying boxed film reels in deep storage. Probably over 90% of every old video you've ever seen came from these 16mm films before being copied to VHS or digitized. Any kid from the 70's on back through the 40's who took a history class (that is every kid who went to Jr High or High School) has seen these when the teacher showed films with a big projector. They just don't remember the boxes the films came in... Sometimes the boxes were a greyish tan in addition to the blue or black. Hope that was a contribution to outdated information. Sometimes we old boomers are actually useful. And in person, actually pretty cool.... ;)
That’s awesome. I’ve heard of this before! 😎
Yup! We are! Taught my son to drive 4 on the floor. I learned on a 3 speed on the steering column. Good times!
Looking at that old picture of when it was in operation makes me think about all the people that must have worked there just like any other job or place & could never imagine it buried in the forest & abandoned. Another great video Chris. I've never missed one.
I always think of what the walls could tell us, such forgotten times ❤
I had a bad accident in a workplace in the 80's and nearly died. The place was levelled many years later. It's since been used as a demo yard before it was demolished. Part of it still stands and it is now an undercover carpark, shops, apartments. My and other's blood, sweat and tears are literally in places like this. It's sad to see them gone or just left to decay. There are all sorts of stories in places like that which just end up lost in history, like most parts of life.
@@Smurphenstein I agree completely so very sad , I am so thankful to hear you survived, there is a reason you survived ! I truly believe that , I contracted covid in 02/2020 . on a ventilator for 6 days died 3 times , my DNR disappeared was found 2 weeks after I was in rehab getting my strength back, apparently I have unfinished business to attend to before I leave this planet , I do have many long covid symptoms but I am a fighter
Typewriter is a Burroughs alphanumeric accounting machine.
Was curious about that thing! Thanks.
Thank you for that tid bit of knowledge
Many thanks, I thought it might be a telex machine but and accounting machine makes more sense.
What I gathered from the brochure I found online, it looks to be an early computing machine probably from the 60s, and would store the information on magnetic tape. That could be what all the boxes are for also.
Bookkeeping Machine
8:59 I'm amused at how no one is able to access the top of the silos to spraypaint or to steal the copper wiring.
Thanks for the tour Chris!
👍🤠
Very interesting find, especially the house. Thanks Chris and Jay
This was absolutely awesome. Great videography as usual.
Thanks, Chris
You sir. Have some damn good content on your channel. Been a follower for a few years now and it seems that I don't skip any of your videos. Love how thorough you were with that drone. I wanted to take in every second of that chunk of history. Thanks Chris!
👋🏻Chris,Awesome Sites You Find Very Interesting, Thank You For Sharing🙂👍🏻
During the cold war many buildings were CD fallout shelters.Churches,Schools,Office buildings ect. My parochial school had barrels of survival biscuits,water,first aid kits and even several Geiger counters in the church and school basement. Common in steel mill towns.
Exactly. It was in a sheltered valley so that really would help with radioactive fallout moving with the wind. The secure file containers were once fill of info on what to do to pick up the government if it had collapsed.
I remember yellow Fallout Shelter signs when I was a kid. They were all over Pittsburgh, movie theaters, stores, schools...
The building I worked in (I retired in 2019) was built in the '50s. To this day, it has the CD shelter signs all over with arrows in various places leading to the basement. It was designed for 400 people. The found the canned biscuts, water, etc in an unused room during a remodel several years ago, all packed in 25 and 55 gallon drums. Cots were hung from the ceiling and in recesses in the walls. Geiger counters were still in wood boxes and hundreds of dosementry "pens" were also in their original protective storage condition. Interesting to see how efficiently they used the space they had available. The coffee shop in our building was originally doubled as the shelter kitchen. Very interesting the way they had everything set up, just waiting for "that day" to sadly come.
In school we not only watched vids on duck and cover, we HAD to duck and cover, away from windows.
That hole is terrifying
reminded me of my ex 🤣🤣
@@867diesel😳😂😂😂😂that big 😱
@@lablackzed i had to strap a 2x4 to my ass . so i wouldnt fall in 🤣🤣
@@lablackzed i had to strap a 2x4 to my ass . so i wouldnt fall in 🤣🤣
@@867dieselcan I get her number?
Chris and Jay thanks for all your exploration, sadly my health prevents me from exploration, always enjoyed forgotten places , Be careful please ❤
Awesome video! I appreciate your bravery in going into that abandoned house. Many thanks to you Chris, and Jay.
Forgot about this channel for a hot minute. Binging on all your videos now. Kudos for the contents!
Interesting that you found a bunch of Civil Defense stuff in the house. Shortly after entering, I noticed several old telecom racks laying on the floor -- it's possible that this house was used for storage or some kind of telecom junction point. Also possible that it was from the cement plant but who knows.
Thank you, Chris! ❤
There's a body buried ander the old house
That house could've been an office building for the other cement company
My daddy retired with
Martin Marietta Blue Circle Cement Shelby County Alabama. He was a mix chemist. Lab work, making the formula to add to the kilns! I loved this explore, reminds me of him.
RIP DADDY! ❤
Thanks for sharing Chris , interesting place. That hole should be covered , so dangerous !
Oh, you don't think the fence will do? LOL
Dang, Chris! Draw a line due east across the river and you'd be where I grew up in Staatsburg, NY - was there this past weekend as a matter of fact. As for that Sensimatic, it was an bookkeeping/accounting machine by the Burroughs Company, found a few close images of ads from the 50s , so the one you saw was prob from the 60s (just a wicked assed guess). Excellent find of that office building!
15:14 Magnetic tape transmittal form - Magnetic data storage tape was used by mainframe computers. The transmittal form was required by IRS. Before the internet, if a company wanted to send a data tape to the IRS that form would be included. Data probability would have been employee W-2, or other tax info. Those boxes would have held the data tapes for transport.
Watching the video it
Started looking familiar. I went in the house about 10 years ago. They look about the same as the last time I was there seem to be holding up fairly well. I
Remember finding a news paper from 1981.
I wonder, who owns that land:
Those deep, cylindrical man-made shafts,
at the beginning of this video,
need to be covered, or filled-in, obv.
People/animals will fall in,
and never get out.
The Snyder Estate owns that land I believe (it’s practically in their backyard)
That is the stuff of nightmares!
That's exactly what I thought . Poor animals trapped in those holes.
Hence the fence... With the gaping hole in it...
Whoever falls in deserves whatever they get for being dumb and careless. Leave those holes be.
5:16 Minus the spraypaint.
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True
This was a great find. Thanks for going and sharing!!!
Further up just below Catskill NY you'll find a very small town of Cementon. Half that plant is shut down. I use to go there for work. Might be all shut down by now that was 3 years ago. Its owned by Lehigh Cement last I knew.
Well you can go to dangerous places. Just great viewing and take care. HI Jay!
So cool! I sometimes wish I was a guy explorer as I’m a big wimp of a girl explorer🤣 and too afraid to go this deep into the woods or plains to explore! That’s why we have you and Jay!! 🙌🤣❤️❤️
Let’s goooo, finally one of my favorite UA-camrs are talking about rosendale
That house must have some high quality roofing material to have lasted that long. The exterior walls looked like asbestos tile. Amazing location altogether.
Interesting & eerie indeed!!! Awesome explore, thank you 💖
In the old photo of the plant in operation there’s a rail car near the silos. The railroad grade should still be there but possibly overgrown by brush from view. It could be an interesting walk to find where it went and joins the mainline, if that still exists.
Good catch👀
Very cool explore! Thanks for taking us along.😊
How did I get to be older people? 😮
😂
We watched the Duck and cover videos and practiced hiding under our desk.
Yup. I'm near 60yrs old. We learned to duck and cover under our desks when I was in school in the early 70's. One time there was a loud car crash just outside the school, our widows were open and it was very loud and sudden, and we all dove under our desks. I had nightmares for a week about bombs dropping, everything being destroyed and I couldn't find my home or my mother. It was a fear that was instilled in you at that age and time.
I am 63 and we never did the duck and cover stuff in NJ I guess they figured bring between NYC and Philadelphia we all been vaporized, though I do remember checking out a fallout shelter in my elementary school one day while the ehole school was outside for a picnic and I and a friend took a detour coming back from the bathroom.
@seesea-sv3xw Yeah. I went to a Catholic school in upstate NY. I didn't go to public school until 4th grade. So maybe the schools had different ideas on the duck and cover.
Being born in 1948, I went through the same thing but in an earlier decade. I never realized how long that had been going on. Interesting...
Such a big place thanks for sharing guys
My mom used to tell me about how she would have practice nuclear drills at school when she was a little girl in the 50s and 60s. She said they’d hide under their desks and cover their heads, either with their hands or text books, in case of falling debris. She later used that same tactic when she was a young adult when her home got hit and damaged by a tornado. It saved her and her friends life. They hid under a table away from the doors and windows in their mobile home. She said if it wasn’t for the bomb drills as a girl that she wouldn’t have been prepared for a tornado.
Yup, that was my generation, too. I had pretty much forgotten all that. Maybe I blocked it out, who knows.
13:30 that seems to be an electric typewriter. I found a few similar ones online, also from Sensimatic. Wanted to share the link but apparently got auto-blocked. 😅
My father worked in the lab (quality control testing) at a cement company. The lower level of that building looked just like that lab. There was also an adding machine just like that one there. My guess is the lab was on the first floor and the business/shipping office on the second. That was the arrangememt where my father worked which is now another abandoned (portland) cement company in PA.
You need a metal detector. Imagine all the hidden treasures you could find in places like this.
But they are on private property. No items found, whether in plain sight or buried and found with a metal detector belong to them.....
Nails, lots of nails
@@ian3580get over it
it's probably owned by the state or govt, so I say take what you can find. there were surely dirt roads which many employees would travel over, I bet there were even small lodging buildings. belt buckles, buttons & coins...
@@vickorano Even if state or government property, that doesn't make it YOUR property to go metal detect or remove any item you want.
WOW!!!! Amazing video and find. Thank you for sharing. I found your channel through Lamont at Large Enjoying your channel.
I remember in elementary school, we had fire drills and also fallout drills that was back in the early 60s. Thanks for the old memories. ❤
Thanks for the journey Chris!
I was born in 1957 and remember doing those drills and listening to the sirens testing all the time
Born in 1952 and I remember them too.
Born in 1948 and I remember them, too.
You should get one of
those Zoom
spot light
flashlights
when exploring
these places.
there’s no telling
what could have
been in those
cylinder ground
shafts those
lights would be
perfect for
looking in them.
check these
lights out in sporting and
hunting stores.
Be careful...I grew up in this area and there are quite a few areas that are monitored by "government agencies." I grew up in Wallkill (just south of Rosendale) at the foot of the Shawangunk Mountains. There are a lot of areas there that were once used by the government for training purposes but are still monitored even though they have been abandoned. Weird stuff happens in those woods.... 🤣
BIGFOOT THAT'S WHY!!!!
Elaborate on weird stuff
@@LanceVance305people spooking themselves out
Very interesting. Both you and Jay made Very interesting videos on this old cement plant.
So as you are walking around in that water,you don't know of its 1inch deep or 100 ft.
wow, what a blight that was left behind
Probably set up as underground fall out shelters . Pretty cool.
Those green industrial lights fetch a nice sum.
You and Jay going upstairs at the house---was sure you were going to crash though! be careful!!
Damn, I was never expecting you to visit my hometown!
Wow this place was such a mystery. Great video!!
in the abandoned house, you found a burroughs sensimatic industrial/architectural typewriter. a very prolific and expensive typewriter for doing blueprints and floor plans, back in its day. its truly a relic. burroughs adding machine was a cometitor to IBM in its time. also those 2x4 in the house, also look like they are actually 2x4 inches and very valueable
Very nice! Thank you for sharing, and greetings from Canada!
I can’t believe the holes at the bottom aren’t closed off. They know people are gonna go back there I’m sure
That's why they put up the fence. LOL
When I think of civil defense, I also think about underground bunkers. You know, like where they would mine cement? Hmmm...
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@@h.bsfaithfulservant4136 yeah I mean why would the gov contact people who dig holes in the earth for a living to talk about making nuclear bunker. Just some insane conspiracy!
The civil defense department used a lot of concrete...
Looked like an Eastern Black Racer snake.
Amazing find!
8:08 “What’s Up there?” Bigfoot👣
sensimatic alphabetic accounting machine, very interesting find.
Cool find! I love seeing historic places!
There is a small town in the middle of the forest between St louis and Farmington... Well a big church two houses and two barns. But was believed to be an old Mormon town from the mid 1800's. Ppl just left it. The church was interesting, it had been re-painted and the outside and inside fixed up. It also had chairs and old candles set up. The path sits outside the Farmington elementy school. (You can see the path on Google maps) Follow it till it ends then follow the old creek. It dose a u shape around the town. Might still be there.
Awesome Vid Love The Attack Drone Background Music 😎
Drums great effect on walking through 😊
8:51 Is that the "house" in the upper left corner? Looks like it would have been that admin offices for the plant.
Always enjoy your videos 🤗🙏
As always, your videos are awesome. 💯
Amazing stuff. This is definitely one of your best finds.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Love your adventures. Any in the state of Illinois or Indiana?
Thev old "cold cave" mines are pretty close to me. I never knew about that Google maps location though.
Looks like I'm going exploring!
taco bell shirt!! we used to have those places in Australia.
The boxes appear to have held film or magnetic tape. Probably stored old films there for a while, then they were all removed/destroyed or stolen when the property was abandoned. The attic cardboard boxes would have held the reels. The cardboard boxes would have been stored in the lockable boxes downstairs. Chances are there is probably also a decommissioned underground facility too nearby probably also used for storage in a repurposed mine. There is also the remote chance there was a civic defence supply cache stored here too, like the one they found in the rooms in the supports inside one of the bridges in new york(?? one of the cities anyway). Although that has likely long since been removed.
It's an accounting machine, very cool!!!
Excellent channel ❤
It either could have been used to provide cement for domestic military installations - as there were tons of random missile launch sites around the country (they're all abandoned but many still stand!) or perhaps the site itself was used for military activities. I think you should investigate the area more! heck, you'll probably find at least one more building...
Is the house not the one seen in the old photo of the intact works, over to the left (8:45)?
Civil Defense could have been using that house and the massive concrete structures near as a possible place for some form of government to evacuate to and its far enough away from anything it wouldn't be hit by any nuclear weapons and hopefully no radioactive fallout. Being in that low valley would have been a big reason the spot was chosen as well. The many secure file containers were probably once full of plans and information on what to do if the people that made it there were to be the highest ranking government officials after a massive nuclear war. Believe it or not Civil Defense still exists. I have been a member of my local Civil Defense for many years. Granted its nothing like it used to be but we still meet every month and still have plans on top of plans for multiple large-scale disasters!
Wow, very cool explore.
The house you found, isn't that the house we see at the top in the old picture of the plant at 08:50?
The fact that not even vandals can get to the top of the silo's is kinda refreshing. It's just a little time capsule, untouched for over 50 years. As all of it should be.
I used to work in Rosendale, and I had no clue that the cement plant was still standing.
This is an awesome find.
No roads. No trails... dude... if you knew how many people have tramped around those woods...
Oh I'm sure they know.
Awesome find with a lot of history.
Wow there's tree's growing on top of the silo's. That's cool
Amazing find. Looked like at very busy place a one time. I use to get under my school desk about one a month when the sirens would go off. I guess it was just something to do. 😂 Back then it would be a atomic attack. Nuclear came later.
I don't know what way you all came in from,(not true I do know which way you went in ) but there is a old drive/rd that is a little over grown leads right up to it. Did you check out the Widow Jane mine area yet??