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 Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:44 pm Post subject: Cass |
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| From this weeks RFT-" But, despite the demolition and piles of rubble that cover the site plenty of manholes are still visible and functioning. Allen says the entire underground infrastructure of the sight is still intact, meaning steam tunnels, sewers, electric wiring and all that stuff is still there"- Anyone checked this out? I've walked around in there but never really thought of going under, until now.......
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:49 pm Post subject: Re: Cass |
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| I agree, there are probably defunct tunnels under that area. Sewer tunnels may or may not be vacant. There are possibly intact utility tunnels still. I've been wanting to check it out for some time.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:10 am Post subject: RE: Cass |
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| I found an article at the Historical Society with a photo of a large vaulted brick sewer that was no longer in use as of the time of the article, IIRC. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure I remember it being in that area. I've meant to go back and double-check that ever since, I don't know why I didn't make a note of it at the time I came across it. Good story, eh?
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| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:53 pm Post subject: RE: Cass |
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I've been loosely following the Pruitt-Igoe redevelopment proposals for some months now, and I was mad that I missed Michael Allen's tour. I've always wanted to walk around the old lot there but without a guide I would just get bored of staring at trees.
Pruitt-Igoe has fascinated me for years. I really hope they do something nice with the land, and not just give it to a big-box retailer or leave it sitting around as a forest.
Here's the article, at any rate: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2012/07/pruitt-igoe_michael_allen_paul_mckee.php
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| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:32 pm Post subject: RE: Cass |
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| I am going there tomorrow to look around, that place is interesting even without going underground. I have to wonder if the guy who wrote that knows what hes talking about since manhole covers on the streets around there are stolen for scrap. I figure they must be secured or they'd be gone.....as for electrical wires...if there was any they won't be there for long after that article. The little Ameren building in the middle looks active,how they keep vandals away is a mystery to me. In Hubert Rother's book there is mention of a brewery cave near there .
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| Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:56 am Post subject: Re: RE: Cass |
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| t7 wrote: | | Pruitt-Igoe has fascinated me for years. |
Have you watched the documentary on it yet? It's on netflix. It's really interesting!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: Cass |
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Funny, people call me Cass, short for Casidy. I seriously thought for a second, that this post was me being called out. Hahaha Funny.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:28 am Post subject: Re: Cass |
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| LoZLady wrote: | | I seriously thought for a second, that this post was me being called out. |
Now it is!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:23 am Post subject: Re: Cass |
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| crazydrummerdude wrote: | | LoZLady wrote: | | I seriously thought for a second, that this post was me being called out. |
Now it is! |
Come at me, bro!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:22 pm Post subject: Re: Cass |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject: RE: Cass |
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I LOVE IT! hahaha
That is the best.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:36 pm Post subject: Re: Cass |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:45 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Cass |
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| Mandi Milenko wrote: |
Have you watched the documentary on it yet? It's on netflix. It's really interesting! |
I don't have Netflix, but I've been meaning to watch it for some time now. I should con one of my friends with Netflix to watch it with me, they'd probably fall asleep halfway through.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:27 pm Post subject: RE: Cass |
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| Poked around there Sunday and there are a couple of manhole covers missing,however i wasn't going down there alone and unarmed....saw a couple of occupied camps, that whole place is strange,like wierd feeling strange.....Saw that movie, sad really, but interesting. Trying to talk some folks into further investigation.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:43 am Post subject: Re: RE: Cass |
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| tacoto wrote: | | Poked around there Sunday and there are a couple of manhole covers missing,however i wasn't going down there alone and unarmed....saw a couple of occupied camps, that whole place is strange,like wierd feeling strange.....Saw that movie, sad really, but interesting. Trying to talk some folks into further investigation. |
I don't think I would go there alone. It is definitely the kind of place one might stumble upon a dead body. pm me next time you are planning on going. I can usually only do stuff on Sundays.
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