It was announced today that the American rock band Foxy Shazam is disbanding for an unknown period. I assume 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.
Warwick State Training School, a former alcohol and drug treatment center, youth rehabilitation complex, and prison will now be host to a brewery and medical marijuana farm in upstate New York.
Nestled along a quiet side road in the heart of Appalachia, there lies a relic of times long past, a two-story house that whispers stories of the bygone era.
Several years ago, I was able to visit the former printing operation for the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, once the world’s largest magazine publishing house, in Springfield, Ohio.
At 2,500 feet in elevation, exploring the former Allegheny Tuberculosis Sanatorium was a delight. With heavy fog blanketing the campus in the early mornings, perpetual overcast days, and cooler temperatures even in the dead of summer, its location along the Allegheny Mountain front in Pennsylvania was ideal.
