Wow...it is strange when they just sorta leave one day and close the
door.... Well, at least the homeless can get an overcoat!
On a film I worked (a horrible chase film that never came out) one of our
locations was an abandoned textile mill near Ramseur, NC. It was like these
photos, crumbling and messy, with huge factory looms still threaded up! I
took
home some huge spools of brightly colored thread to use as brickerbrack. They
were beautiful.
I also costumed an awful HBO film called "Florida Straits" where we filmed
in the abandoned nuclear power plant in Gaffney, SC. (where the giant peach is
on I-95) They too just stopped working on it one day and left. It was an
amazing place. Large expanses of concrete that (watch out!) would just drop
off
15 feet into some man made concrete gorge. Nature was encroaching and there
would be pools of water, silt, dirt and plants growing in the corners of these
drop-offs. Some had saplings and small trees in them with birds nesting.
Then you'd come upon a forest of rusting steel conduit rising 10 feet out of
the
concrete and going on for yards and yards. There was a huge....and I mean
huge.... cooling tank that could be filled with water. They filmed "The Abyss"
there.
My favorite thing that I wanted to steal as a memento was a sign bolted
(alas) to the concrete wall (I couldn't get it down) that said:
ANYONE CAUGHT URINATING IN THIS FACILITY WILL BE SUBJECT TO DISIPLINARY
ACTION
Ahhhh....the good ol' days when I did films!
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