Thursday, October 3, 2013

Forbidden Places: Exploring Our Abandoned Heritage Volume 2



Ever since  was a young boy I loved exploring old houses, abandoned buildings and other assorted dilapidated and derelict vehicles and structures. 

There’s something thrilling (and a little sad) about walking through buildings that once housed businesses and families.  You see such structures all about: long forgotten and decaying buildings such as hotels, gas stations, merchandise stores, homes, railroad stations, auditoriums, malls, churches, amusement parks, buses, aircraft and so forth.

The new book from JonGlez: Forbidden Places: Exploring Our Abandoned Heritage from Sylvain Margaine (with text by David Margaine) takes a visual tour of abandoned building and vehicles from all over the world.  Hotels, auditoriums, places of worship, sanitariums, palaces, etc. are all explored.  Many have been left to rot while others are in the process of rejuvenation. 

It’s a little spooky looking at hotel rooms left just as they were when the residents left.  Clothing, bed sheets, personal items, etc. are left just as they were-some decades old.  Food and drink left to rot in old restaurants, furniture left to crumble and room interiors falling into ruin are just a few of the images included.

It’s a haunting book, filled with moody and shadow drenched buildings makes for a thought-provoking read that I won’t soon forget.