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Wow man, I can't wait for the pictures!
I've always been fascinated with this sort of thing too. There's a number of abandoned farms around here, in rural Saskatchewan. We used to drive around looking at them. We never really went inside, but just sorta looked in the windows and everything.
My grandparents used to take my mom and aunt to go see these places when they were kids too. Some of these houses were still fully furnished. One of them even had a 1940s calendar, still hanging in the kitchen (this was in the late 1960s, early '70s).
My grandma used to drive out looking at abandoned farms too. She came across a victrola, and a big pile of 78s, and an old diary in one particular place. She read the diary cover to cover. She left it behind though.
A while ago, me and my friend were hired to clean up all the scrap metal off an abandoned farm. There were a bunch of buildings just FULL of stuff. You name it, it was in there.
The house was still full of stuff too. It was kinda eerie, how all the furnature and everything was still layed out as if they just went out for a pack of smokes or something.
The basement was totally flooded too. Down there, there was shelves full of all kinds of stuff, and furnature and everything, but all under water.
There was also a bunch of old cars in this swampy slewy area. Early '60s era GM's; 2 Pontiac Laurentians, a Pontiac Strato-Chief (Canadian models), a Chevy Bel-Air, and a GMC truck. All sunken right into the ground, with license plates that expired in the '70s and early '80s.
There was also an '80s era Pontiac Parisienne sitting by the house, which was obviously their daily driver, still sitting there, waiting to be driven again.
I did get a souvenier from that place; a ~1969 Road Runner 14" travel trailer, that was destined to be scrapped. But it was still in great shape, and would cost jack shit as scrap, so my friend said I could have it, and he'd help me get it home and everything, in exchange for a day of work.
I'm gonna start restoring it, and my friend's also very excited to see what I'm gonna do with it.
It's a cool little thing. I did have to totally scrub it all out with bleach though, due to the multitude of mouseshits lol
But yea, that's another thing. You gotta be careful at these places, because deer mice (the ones with the big round mickey mouse ears) spread the hantavirus, and that's fatal.
I think this summer I'm gonna go exploring in some abandoned farms, but i'm gonna bring a friend along with me just in case.
Just imagine stories that abandoned houses, cars, etc. can tell.
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