Driving on highway 108, On the way back from a camping week end in the sierra, north of the Yosemite National Park we stopped at this location, that I had seen many times before. Friends recommended it. The building, on top of a hill next to the highway doesn't look that impressive from the outside. It's only when you get closer that you start to see something quiet unusual: the place is full of all the things that it contained when it was abandoned.
We visited for a couple of hours all the rooms of what probably use to be a bar or a restaurant and possibly a guest house. I found on an old bill that the name of the place was Little Sweden. The owners for an unexplained reason left the place as it was with absolutely everything you can imagine in.
Remains of a truck.
From dates on bills and magazines it seems that the place was last inhabited around 1995. Of course and unfortunately it had been vandalized since. I did some research on the net but couldn't find a piece of info about it. If you know anything about what happen there I'll be happy to include that here.
Old polaroids capture stories only for those who can remember them...
Short and Special + a nail in a freezer...
The main room.
The kitchen.
A bedroom.
An old video game.
Clothes still in the closet after more than 10 years.
coordinates : 38°08'04.54"N 120°05'43.13"W
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pictures sources : gregoire V. & Artificial Owl
text source : Artificial Owl
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These are the remains of a M3 Half-track vehicle (if I'm correct) which according to Wikipedia
was "an armoured vehicle used by the United States and its allies during World War II and the Cold War." The pictures were taken by Dayne T. while traveling on the tracks around the gorgeous area of Hole in the rock in Utah. Thanks for the great pictures Dayne.
All the valuable parts seemed to have been stripped apart over the years. This carcass strikingly reminds me of the dried out elephant skeleton that are found in the African desert. Anywhere else this sight would have been mundane, but in this remote desertic area, it gets a whole different meaning.
Illustration of a complete Half-track M3
The area of Hole in the rock, unknown to me, looks like a great destination.
coordinates : 37°22'31.71"N 110°32'21.06"W
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pictures sources : 1 2 3 & Dayne T.
text source : 1 & Dayne T.
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Few years ago driving around the city of Aix en provence, south of France I found this derelict combine harvester. It deeply captured my imagination, not sure why.
I can't help but think about the mythical elephant boneyard, where the old ones feeling the death coming would go to rest in peace.
coordinates : 43°30'59.27"N 5°32'29.34"E
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