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I really love decaying industrial sites. The scale of this place is breathtaking.
Thanks for the love, Imgur! I posted a few more pics for those asking. http://imgur.com/a/HHFW5
0118999
Huh. I live like 15 minutes away. I should go check it out…
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jeips
i took a tour there last month. hauntingly beautiful.
TheRealRickOConnell
IT'S A ZANY ACTION, A CRAZY CONTRAPTION, THE FUN IS CATCHIN', IT'S MOUSETRAP!!
NonSequentialOrder
All I see is a raider stronghold in Fallout
Feralphobia
http://imgur.com/r/AbandonedPorn sfw
NotNotDeadpool
Abandoned you say? Interesting. How hard is it to get into?
AustiinAnaconda
4/10
BtownMountain
How dare you be in my hometown.
ifukinatodaso
Corvega assembly plant
wowiamgladthisnameisnttaken
That's the one near the casino right @op I haven't been to pa in a while.
punintendedconsequences
Yup. As many mentioned, it's now a big tourist site and performing arts center. Still super cool though.
AluminiumFalcon
All the jobs are in China now.
nasreal
And yet oddly, most of the Chinese seem to be in that casino....
Attaleros
I've seen a photo series of this place by an urbex photographer. Absolutely love it.
isoversharing
More?
punintendedconsequences
Here ya go: /a/HHFW5
DarthClitoris
Yay Lehigh!
egteddie
Thank you unions.
xenocyde1224
Not in this specific case, bethlehem failed to adopt new technologies which ended up killing them. The electric arc furnace to be specific
YourNewNicknameIsJelloShot
And now there's a casino right next to it
ZEROgravity54
I love an hour away from that
erictron
Pictures inside pls.
RealNormMacDonald
Guy that started it had a summer home in Newport, RI and built a separate house on a rock in he bay cuz his wife hated boats so much
Atomic2
I wouldn't call that abandoned, I mean theres a yuppy walkway right there... Its just decoration now.
gillyofphilly
Ageed! I was in a wedding at the Steel Stacks this spring.
Andenice
It's actually a concert venue now!
Andenice
http://www.steelstacks.org/events/concerts/
missbelled
That's.... fairly metal.
GuacaMan
Hey, I just saw this comment a few days ago, and tonight I took my mom to see a concert here for her birthday.
lucindaattheParkview
Yeah, I bartended for Musikfest just to the left, out of the picture. "Not used industrially " may be more accurate
JohnnyVarlow
Paintball!
Urgalicity
Why is there no American Steel... Exhibit A
theodoretesticle
I saw it in person at a car meet. it was pretty gnarly.
psuedomacabre
Oh the casino/downtown district, yeah can't afford to go to Southside anymore.
Gator629
Memories....many a public urination had I, on the Southside.
psuedomacabre
Ditto, getting sloshed at the Your Welcome with my now wife.
thegarthok
Isn't that a casino now?
biologyofmusic
They do a music festival near there - makes a great backdrop
Muttons1337
Is this the Steel Stacks I keep hearing about?
Andenice
That's the one! http://www.steelstacks.org/events/concerts/
Muttons1337
Haha, so not so abandoned then.
drinkyourjuiceshelby
Aren't Hot Tamales born in Bethlehem, PA?
AustiinAnaconda
So are Mike an Ike's
AustiinAnaconda
Peeps too
Mbhammerbro
I was there for Cars and Coffee Sunday. Super cool place.
punintendedconsequences
I saw like 7 DeLoreans parked there!
Mbhammerbro
11! I was so stunned I had to count. So many great looking cars.
rouverius
Well, we're living here in Allentown...
Abbeyroad000
Bethlehem here
ItsMeLyric
From Macungie/ Emmaus area!
TheresAGermanWordForThat
Allegedly he couldn't find a good rhyme for Bethlehem.
realmdweller
Mmmm - tssss - mmmm - cha
KungFuBarbeque
Hey I live in Lehighton and work near Allentown. There are dozens of us!
carlostrange
Hey, I'm in Easton... LV Imugrians, who knew.
JCSmoove
Clinton here, just a little east.
ShinzoMcfly
Alburtis, hello fellow lv friends
UracanTaino
I used to live in Btown and that area looks better with the casino next to it
coldslaw
Used to live right there in 5 points Bethlehem now im over by dorney park much better side of town
tattoogrrl28
Fleetwood here, Berks County. Hey there neighbor!
carlostrange
::waves enthusiastically::
Rugbyrucker
Stroudsburgian transplanted to Detroit, heyyyyo LV/Pocono's. o/
Kriff
Just moved from Fleetwood to Kenhorst! Cheers!
SecretlyHitlerandStalinsLoveChild
And they're closing all the factories down
rouverius
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
SecretlyHitlerandStalinsLoveChild
Filling out forms Standing in line
joesmamma
Isn't this a factory in fallout 4?
SpyrusCogwheel
General Atomics
javierjabanero1
Dude you're right, totally looks like the Corvega Plant!!!
jazzhead
It do!
Sephority
Except all the ball towers
wenturi
FF7 JEEEESUS!
primarydrive
It's the factory from the beginning of transformers 2
imguraptor
nope, its rust from call of duty
iAmLordBeer
The Forge?
ElBivo
My first thought as well.
commoncomment
Someone go hide a Bobble Head!
Talmorean
It's at the top of the catwalk on a wooden plank next to a radio that's playing Uranium Fever.
carltondance
That's literally the first thing I thought of too!
rockinsessions
It's a blast furnace. It's produces iron. I work in an old Bethlehem plant that still runs under a different company
rockinsessions
Also, I work on the blast furnace. The forged have it. They did a decent job recreating the furnace in fallout 4 actually