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Uhm, The infra looks super depressing... https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Kitsault,+BC+V0J+3T0,+Canad...
Yeah, that operating room is straight out of a horror movie
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Its more that why does the panhandle exist at all, it should all be BC.
Why should Canada exist, it should all be the US.
BC in the 80s, 90s seemed like completely different worlds compared to today. Vancouver especially seemed to have peaked early 2000s before the housing bubble took off. Rainforest Cafe, Playdium, Indy 500, Vancouver Grizzlies, Canucks. It had so much going for it. What was once a fun, soulful city is now something completely different.
BC was altered considerably by a series of economic crisis in the 90s; notably the softwood lumber dispute, the opening of raw log exports, the salmon fishery dispute, and the asian economic crisis. All told, they had the cumulative effect of shifting BC's economy away from lumber and fisheries and toward tourism and real estate.
It's neat to see one of my personal holy grails of urban exploring being posted here and then see people talking about gentrifying an entire preserved town from the 80s to build some kind of weird techbro commune. Never change HN.
I get the disdain for gentrification when it displaces existing communities. I have a harder time seeing the harm in finding a productive use for a city that currently doesn’t have a productive use. It’s cool that this place exists, and is a bit of a time capsule. But it’s not that noteworthy or valuable beyond being a mild curiosity, and certainly not worth preserving if it can be used for actual benefit instead. I…
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Yeah, that operating room is straight out of a horror movie
I think it's an x-ray room. The wall with the window for the radiologist to look through and the arm above the table.
Strange to have chairs in the room. Minor correction, it would usually be a radiographer not a radiologist who took x-rays. However if this was a screening room (a room that does imaging with a fluoroscopic unit), it would usually be a radiologist who did it.
It's neat to see one of my personal holy grails of urban exploring being posted here and then see people talking about gentrifying an entire preserved town from the 80s to build some kind of weird techbro commune. Never change HN.