When a friend sends a random link to an abandoned building that’s under an hour away with some pretty cool photos and an invite to go the next day, one goes along.  This morning a few of us rolled into the former coal cracking town of Lansford, PA, which in it’s day was probably something a tad nicer.  Life isn’t easy in former coal towns and this one has seen better days.  Lansford is the home to Kiddie Kloes, a clothing factory that made Cinderella brand clothing, amongst others.  Sadly, it closed in 1988 and has been neglected and to die by the side of the road, ironically in the center of the city, only a few dozen yards from the local football stadium. The Nitty Gritty Getting into this place sucks.  I’ll leave it at that.  25 years of broken windows, has let thousands of birds in, based off the poop on the work floors.  Rain water has seeped in making some of the floors buckle from swelling and shrinking, while holes are in other sections of the place.  The natural light pours in factory glass, what’s left of it.  There are still dozens of machines left, spools of […]

A few years ago I found Forgotten PA, a blog that focuses on abandoned and forgotten about industrial parts of what made Pennsylvania great.  There’s one spot that I’ve been meaning to go explore since discovering the site, but still haven’t.  This morning I found myself with little actual work to do and no commitments, but didn’t feel like driving two hours north to the spot I’ve been contemplating going.  So I looked around on the blog for something closer, and found Linfield Industrial Park, at roughly an hour drive I packed my bag on an amazing day and drove down.  The blog was written in 2007, it does not mention anywhere to actually get into the park, nor does anywhere else that I tried to Google.  To confuse matters even more, it’s also referred to as the Kinsey Distillery, but no address.  Going off a rough guess, I set the GPS in my iPhone and headed out. My purpose in going was three-fold.  I’ve [always] been really impressed with friend and fellow photographer Andipantz‘s ability to go on day-trips and photograph amazing places.  I need to do this more often -said myself.  I rarely shoot for myself anymore, when […]