Originally published at: Abandoned McDonald's is an eerie time capsule | Boing Boing
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That “air-gas” system is worth some cheddar, as for the rest of it, total crappola.
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It felt like diving and exploring a sunken wreck.
I would rather have something like this as the “screensaver” on my AppleTV instead of aerial flyovers of landscapes.
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It’s a curiously fascinating thing. Were we raised on so much dystopian fiction that it’s somehow confirming, perhaps? (“Omega Man did it better than Planet of the Apes!”) There’s even a reddit for “abandoned porn” (“meh there’s a reddit for anything porn”)
In passing, if one at least tolerates reddit, this ‘map’ is an interesting way to find other reddit sites which might relate to one’s interests. Found some interesting math subredits that way [shrug]
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I’m a bit surprised at how much metal is still there. I would have expected it to get sold off as scrap if nothing else.
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McBarge
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Looks like a crew started to disassemble the place but stopped after the first half of the first day, then they just left. I’m surprised that corporate would allow this place to continue to exist. Doesn’t do much for the brand.
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In an ironic twist, the icecream machine works
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The best part of a late 80’s, early 90’s McDonald’s was the shake. Sure Dairy Queen had the Blizzard they would turn upside down for you, but those shakes… You were sucking on one of those until you were about to pass out and for all that work you got half a sip. I feel like they had to be non-dairy and just chocked full of stabilizers.
The second best part, swivel chairs. I’m not sure if they ever spun all the way around, but the 270° or so it would spin was marvelous. As an eight year old it delighted me to no end to spin back and forth. As a mid 40 year old with an 8 year old…it would probably grate on my last nerve if he sat there and spun back and forth endlessly. I believe they call that karma or the circle of life?
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I think ruins have always appealed to people; at least, it’s certainly been a romantic theme for a few centuries, like in Shelley’s Ozymandias, or Gandy’s drawings imagining the Bank of England as a ruin.
The normal way you encounter something like a McDonalds, it’s 50% perfornance, with all the lights and the cleaning and the regular redecoration and what not, so seeing it abandoned is like peeking outside the flow of normal reality. There’s obviously the melancholic side to something being abandoned, as well, but you get a similar effect with places that are brand new before they’re occupied.
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I have seen quite a few of those american urb-ex videos, especially of malls and restaurants, and something that always struck me is how the whole inventory, even sometimes some merachandise is still left there. That seems so wastefull to me. I mean the stuff in there still has value, even if it just a raw material value for recycling. When a store or a restaurant closes here in Germany, it is usually completely cleaned out within about a forthnight. Merchandise is sold off cheap or relocated to other locations, the inventory reused in other locations or recycled. There is nothing left.
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It was used as a shooting location for the terrible Blade 3 (the one that killed the franchise, although supposedly they are going to reboot it at some point)
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