Guinotte Building tunnel
Guinotte Building tunnel
Was doing some research on another topic and came across this: Linky
Anybody know anything about it?
Anybody know anything about it?
RE: Guinotte Building tunnel
Sounds cool... I'll have to see what I can find out!
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RE: Guinotte Building tunnel
I know that area and that building. It actually had a partial roof collapse back in the summer. Good thing about it is it took out one wall so there is a gaping hole in the side of the building to crawl through. Bad thing is the building is not very structurally safe (hence he roof collapse), you have to climb a fence right in the middle of the street to get in there, and there is a large population of homeless people in the area, so odds are you will have squatters, especially at night. This is all given there is still access to the tunnel. The building IS owned by someone locally but there isn't anything going on there that I know of. If you go, there is a parking lot on the east side of the building, near the bridge, that may or may not be ok to park in, check for signs. That's all I can think of for now.
BTW, Guinotte is a somewhat busy two lane for industrial traffic. Keep an eye out when jumping the fence.
BTW, Guinotte is a somewhat busy two lane for industrial traffic. Keep an eye out when jumping the fence.
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Have you been in the tunnel and if so where did it lead and can someone get some pictures?
RE: Guinotte Building tunnel
Is this the mid american storage building? if so, I've been through a lot of the building, but it's been a few years. I was moving some stuff into storage for one of the former owners. There were several cars on the main level, and the basement was partially flooded. I think there might be a way into the basement from the street. If it's a different building, then nevermind.
Re: Guinotte Building tunnel
I found the website for the newspaper but it looks like they don't have away to read past stories. Sound like the building might be under going some changes.
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Re: Guinotte Building tunnel
I drove by there one night and some cops where shinning their flashlights into the basement from the street. I was thinking about checking the place out untill I saw that. That roof collapse was pretty major though and they put up a wooden wall with no tresspassing signs.
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Yeah it's the Mid-America Storage building. I've never been in it, I only drove by it a lot for work.
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RE: Guinotte Building tunnel
Is this the location off of 3rd & Guinotte?
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Yep that building is in real bad shape I was down there the day the south wall fell into guinote st. for the gas to be cut off cause they werent sure if the building would hold up.
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RE: Guinotte Building tunnel
In a sad development for Kansas City explorers, this building has now been demolished. But there never was a tunnel. I think that the legend was based on narrow passages in the basement between different sections of the complex.
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Actually we did find a tunnel in the basement of Mid America Cold Storage. Another explorer and myself had begun excavating and trying to dig past the mounds of garbage and wood that had been placed there as a makeshift barricade. Then, mysteriously, the building went up in flames 2 days later leading to its collapse.peterbillionaire wrote:In a sad development for Kansas City explorers, this building has now been demolished. But there never was a tunnel. I think that the legend was based on narrow passages in the basement between different sections of the complex.
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RE: Guinotte Building tunnel
Was that at the eastern end of the basement? I think that was an opening to the basement of the building that used to be to the east of Mid-America.
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If my memory serves correctly, it was either eastern or northern. That was like 2 years ago, and I sometimes have trouble remember where the earlier portion of my day has gone.peterbillionaire wrote:Was that at the eastern end of the basement? I think that was an opening to the basement of the building that used to be to the east of Mid-America.
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Being around at the time, I can say it was the eastern edge, and you both are speaking of the same portion.
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