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Re: "Ruins" Abandoned Business/Railroad/Industrial Structures...........
Author: Jeff Moore
Date: 10-20-2013 - 08:09
KRK wrote:
"Very sad looking photos... Have a question though...
We all know that the NWP is basically destroyed, especially North of Cloverdale.. Are we also saying that large portions of Loleta, Eureka, etc are looking like DETROIT, including "Humboldt State University" ?? If so, that's NUTS !!"
It would be quite a stretch to say that "large portions" of Loleta, Eureka, and HSU are looking like "Detroit". Loleta might be closer than a couple others, simply because that old creamery was the only substantial industrial building in town...Eureka's downtown core, especially the stretches along Highway 101, has received a complete makeover and is by all external appearances thriving, to the point I hardly recognize it from what it was when I left the area 13 years ago. Even a lot of the old buildings down towards the waterfront have been rehabilitated or torn down in that time. Truth be told...you can find buildings or areas looking like those anywhere people live...you just have to learn to look and possibly stray outside your comfort zone to find them. It might just be easier to do so in the Humboldt region thanks to the near disappearance of the industrial base in that region and that the moist environment can make something abandoned for five years look like it has been idled for fifty.
As for the University Annex in the photographs...that building actually was Arcata's hospital until the new Mad River Community Hospital was built. Humboldt took over the building and converted it mostly to staff offices and classrooms, plus some storage...it was located several blocks away from the rest of the campus. I had a couple classes down there, it was almost impossible to make it from the main part of the campus down to the annex in the time allotted between classes. Since I left, the university has built several impressive new classroom buildings up on the main campus, replacing the annex...hence its abandonment.
Jeff Moore
Elko, NV
"Very sad looking photos... Have a question though...
We all know that the NWP is basically destroyed, especially North of Cloverdale.. Are we also saying that large portions of Loleta, Eureka, etc are looking like DETROIT, including "Humboldt State University" ?? If so, that's NUTS !!"
It would be quite a stretch to say that "large portions" of Loleta, Eureka, and HSU are looking like "Detroit". Loleta might be closer than a couple others, simply because that old creamery was the only substantial industrial building in town...Eureka's downtown core, especially the stretches along Highway 101, has received a complete makeover and is by all external appearances thriving, to the point I hardly recognize it from what it was when I left the area 13 years ago. Even a lot of the old buildings down towards the waterfront have been rehabilitated or torn down in that time. Truth be told...you can find buildings or areas looking like those anywhere people live...you just have to learn to look and possibly stray outside your comfort zone to find them. It might just be easier to do so in the Humboldt region thanks to the near disappearance of the industrial base in that region and that the moist environment can make something abandoned for five years look like it has been idled for fifty.
As for the University Annex in the photographs...that building actually was Arcata's hospital until the new Mad River Community Hospital was built. Humboldt took over the building and converted it mostly to staff offices and classrooms, plus some storage...it was located several blocks away from the rest of the campus. I had a couple classes down there, it was almost impossible to make it from the main part of the campus down to the annex in the time allotted between classes. Since I left, the university has built several impressive new classroom buildings up on the main campus, replacing the annex...hence its abandonment.
Jeff Moore
Elko, NV
