It was announced today that the American rock band Foxy Shazam is disbanding for an unknown period. I am under the assumption that after performing more than 2,000 shows, the Cincinnati-based band just needs some time to breathe. One of my favorite music videos, “I Like It,” from the aptly named “The Church of Rock and Roll” album, was filmed in the abandoned First German Reformed Church, a building that has been deserted for more than twenty years, in the West End neighborhood of Cincinnati.
There is something to be said for hiking in before sunrise into the largest collection of abandonments in the United States: the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant.
Wean United was located in Youngstown, Ohio and manufactured equipment that was used to process and finish flat rolled steel.
When I attended the University of Kentucky, I traveled the back roads of my state – a lot. On one of my excursions, I came across the abandoned Buckeye School. Back then, its lot was filled with relics of the past, namely automobiles. Jaguar, Jeep, Land Rover and Volkswagen carcasses lay scattered around the several acre lot. But I never went inside the actual school, and despite my vows to find the owner of the property – I graduated from school and moved away.
Now, nearly six years after I left, I decided to try my luck again en route to a wedding.
A photographic essay of the former Frenchburg Presbyterian College in Frenchburg, Kentucky.
