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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:13 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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iowegian wrote: |
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While perusing the headstones in the rest of the cemetery, it dawned on me that many of the names were the same as a lot of the local streets..... |
Like Robert Main or John First or Cynthia Central ?? |
More like Cole DeSak & Bo Levard. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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oprn Samba Member
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Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 9:22 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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We just found this house in the next town west of us. It looks like sandstone and is currently in use for some sort of disability support service. Nice to see it in such good shape.
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
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Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 8:17 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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From the “VW fun challenge” thread almost four years ago...
This flag has drawn the ire of the local government...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/3770626002 _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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Pruneman99 Samba Member
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 7:25 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Thats ridiculous. Too much patriotism lands you fines or in the clink.
Maybe they should fly it upside down. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12816 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 3:39 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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While wandering the back roads of rural NC yesterday, I found this old mill.
And it’s storehouse.
Then, near Seven Paths NC (I think that there was one path in, one path out & the other five just lead back into another.)
Around Justice NC, I barely caught a glimpse of this old barn through the dense woods
Which led me to this late 1700s/early 1800s house.
And the family cemetery.
With yet another fallen Confederate soldier.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
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Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 10:37 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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This morning I decided to explore out 401n & I found this 1,700s house just south of Louisburg.
And then this one just north of Louisburg.
And another..
Then this old school house turned community center.
Shortly after that, I found this historic marker.
I was unsuccessful in finding it & as it turns out, her grave was moved to Virginia after vandals destroyed it in 1994.
She apparently died of tuberculosis (after being displaced from the family home due to the war.) while they were at a local vacation spot mentioned here...
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
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Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 1:07 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Just outside of Warrenton NC, I found the gorgeous old plantation home, now a bed & breakfast & special events site called “Magnolia Manor”. (It’s for sale by the way.)
The sweet, citrusy scent of the Magnolias was absolutely intoxicating.
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 8:38 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Never having been to Warrenton, I was amazed how many early to mid 1800's houses there were, the town was a little time capsule of early architecture in varying conditions.
Yet another old school turned community center.
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 12:11 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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I found this one in Kilmarnock VA yesterday.
And this one, Christ Church, completed in 1735, also just outside Kilmarnock.
This one is between Kilmarnock & White Stone VA.
In White Stone, there was this neat old house.
And next to it, was this display with old gas pumps.
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12816 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 8:54 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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I'll just paste this whole thing here.
How do you take what is supposed to be a seven and a half hour trip each way an turn it into a twelve to fourteen hour trip each way and enjoy (Almost) every minute of it?
You take one old Volkswagen...
Add to that lots of additional back roads, most of which were probably old original trading routes, drive through bypassed towns, go out of your way to check out sites that are interesting to you, and then, stop dozens of times and take pictures of, well, EVERYTHING.
Here's my trip. It started with a plea for help from a family member because almost all of their cars quit & I needed to get them back on the road.
So I started out at 5:00 am...
And then drove west on Interstate 40 until I got to Winston Salem & hopped on Rt 52.
I started the GoPro as Pilot Mountain came into view to share with y’all... (Turn your volume down, just raw video, lots of wind noise.)
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Once I saw the split for 74/77 or old highway 52, I took highway 52 (maybe because my cheap ass didn’t want to pay the tolls )
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As I approached the Virginia/North Carolina line, I was amazed by the hundreds of people that were selling stuff at roadside flea market stalls & yard sales, I’m guessing it was due to a collapsing economy due to the shift of traffic to the newer highway.
There were lots of once grand, beautiful old houses that were abandoned along the way. This one in Virginia.
Once into West Virginia, my first intended side trip was the well known in the supernatural watching circles, Lake Shawnee Amusement Park that was built in the 1950s (Which claimed the lives of several attendees.), which was previously a site where the Shawnee Indians massacred & scalped several children of a settler, who built his farm on an old indian burial site.
https://www.theconstantrambler.com/lake-shawnee-amusement-park-abandoned-haunted/
I requested permission to get some close ups of the Ghiapet on the property (with my $30 contribution.)
This swing was where a young girl was killed when the ride started as a delivery van had backed into the path of the swing's increasing radius.
After that, I traveled up route 19, or Beckley Rd & crossed over the New River Gorge Bridge, then I took video of the trail under the bridge & back over it. Unfortunately, the vegetation & the camera angle made it difficult to see the bridge.
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My next sidebar was the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston West Virginia...
http://literarytrebuchet.blogspot.com/2016/09/10-creepy-facts-and-stories-concerning.html?m=1
This once abandoned building complex has found new life as a, well, really big haunted house attraction.
And the curious begin to descend...
“Anyone that could do this to a Karmann Ghia should be committed.”
That apple tree to the left of the Ghiapet had some great, natural apples on it, I took several. Would you call them Asylum Apples? Fruit for the nuts? Crazy fruit?
While on the way back from the Trans Allegheney Lunatic Asylum, this bridge & tunnel caught my attention & I thought it might be a neat shot so I climbed in.
Here’s the view I was greeted with in the morning...
My return trip started by revisiting the covered bridge that I took pictures of a couple of years ago before it was destroyed a couple of years ago that lead me to start this thread...
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=687031&highlight=preserving+history
TDCTDI wrote: |
A few months after taking pictures of a neat old covered bridge in Philipi, West Virginia, it was destroyed by arson.
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After that, I headed into downtown Philippi West Virginia & got some pics with an abandoned old hospital.
And then with the not-so-abandoned municipal building, it’s amazing how the cops just let you do whatever when you have an old car & a camera (even if it is just a cell phone.). At least three or four drove past while my car was parked on the sidewalk.
So I then headed out 250 to Bellington & then to Elkins where I got onto Route 33 to go through the Monongahela Forest to Seneca Rocks...
(Video to be added)
I eventually started heading south on Highway 220 where I found this neat cut-away...
A historical marker across the street mentioned something about a confederate saltpeter mine & gun powder factory nearby that was destroyed by Union forces on multiple occasions, this might be it?
And then onto Highway 250 through the George Washington National Forest..
(Video to be added.)
On my way to my next muse...
The abandoned DeJarnette Sanitarium in Staunton Virginia.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/abandoned-dejarnette-sanitarium
Much to the surprise of my other fellow trespassers, I just drove up the embankment in the front.
Once done there, I made the quick two mile jaunt down the road to what was once the Western State Lunatic Asylum. Now dubbed "The Villages at Staunton", It is/has being/been transformed into a resort hotel/condominium complex.
https://architecturalafterlife.com/2019/02/23/abandoned-virginia-asylum-restored/
They did a wonderful job of purtyin it up.
But the unaltered, unrestored outlying buildings should remind everyone of it's dark & sordid past.
Not to mention the extensive cemetery full of marked & unmarked headstones.
Just like "Hotel California", "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
Across the street, with access to the river & it's own train tracks for coal is the "Mechanical room" I'm guessing to supply heat & cooling for the complex (In it's original form.).
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Zundfolge1432 Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 9:51 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Fabulous and educational whoever said they couldn’t imagine living in North Carolina is misinformed it’s beautiful love those pics. |
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Pruneman99 Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 3:31 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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The Ghia-pet and this thread are some of my favorite things
Keep up the nice photo work! |
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wcfvw69 Samba Purist
Joined: June 10, 2004 Posts: 13385 Location: Arizona
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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I love this thread and appreciate the time you take to document it with the pictures while on your adventures. The history is very interesting as well.
I find it very interesting that there are so many abandoned homes, mansions and large facilities there. Here in Phoenix, we just don't see that. Obviously, Phoenix is relatively new vs. the east coast and south.
My mind also wondered where all the mentally ill are housed today? There were so many facilities countrywide decades ago and they all appear to have been shuttered. Hum.. Homeless maybe? Sad. _________________ Contact me at [email protected]
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Pruneman99 Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 8:20 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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wcfvw69 wrote: |
I love this thread and appreciate the time you take to document it with the pictures while on your adventures. The history is very interesting as well.
I find it very interesting that there are so many abandoned homes, mansions and large facilities there. Here in Phoenix, we just don't see that. Obviously, Phoenix is relatively new vs. the east coast and south.
My mind also wondered where all the mentally ill are housed today? There were so many facilities countrywide decades ago and they all appear to have been shuttered. Hum.. Homeless maybe? Sad. |
Does the Norton house still stand near the capitol building? It burned, and was scheduled for demolition when I lived there. The fire wasn't all that destructive, and a committee was formed to save one of the original Victorian homes built downtown. Unfortunately it resided in a depressed area. Some of the older homes were being restored, but others were being torn down. Being so close to the downtown area, I'd assume the land was more valuable than many of the homes. IDK what happened after that, I moved to Raleigh. That was 12+ year ago.
In reference to the the insane, I think most of them live in downtown LA now in tents. The "treatment" of these people was abhorrent in many of the facilities of the past, but it's probably just as bad now just leaving them drug addicted and forgotten sleeping on sidewalks. Just a sad situation all around. |
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supercub Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Great documentation of a fun looking trip. I also love old abandoned structures and used to spend a good deal of time poking around run-down farmsteads back when I lived in rural Kansas. That Ghia looks like a blast to bomb down some dirt roads in. I enjoyed rambling around on the old logging roads in my '66 Beetle when I lived up in New Hampshire. Keep up the good photos. |
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Zundfolge1432 Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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wcfvw69 wrote: |
My mind also wondered where all the mentally ill are housed today? There were so many facilities countrywide decades ago and they all appear to have been shuttered. Hum.. Homeless maybe? Sad. |
Some have migrated over to SambaVW just kidding |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
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Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 3:18 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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I found the remains of another old school, this one, built in 1923, is in Eldorado NC.
And then this neat old barn in Denton NC.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
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Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
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Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 3:36 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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TDCTDI wrote: |
Here’s another old home that I’ve watched languish for 25+ years, this one is off highway 64 near Siler City NC. The construction equipment nearby suggest that it will make way for highway widening.
And it’s barn.
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Update, this house & barn have been demolished. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:04 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Wow, the ghiapet seems to be keeping this thread alive.
Kudos to you TDCTDI. _________________ "Albatross"! |
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