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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The Medium Security Institution (AKA The Workhouse) was constructed in Saint Louis in the 1960's. It was operational for about 60 years before reports of inhumane conditions brought about its eventual replacement and closure. There now appears to be some questionable renovation work being done inside-reportedly at the cost of millions of taxpayer dollars.

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Despite the location already winding up on social media and various news stories, I had let this one sit for an unspecified amount of time before posting anything about it myself-as is tradition. Using discretion helps keep lazy assholes/vandals out, it avoids search engine results from making it back to whomever is in charge of security; it helps prevent random fools from finding out about it and trying their luck at getting inside and accidentally locking themselves in a cell, etc. By the time I got around to posting it here I still refrained from identifying it by name/location/exteriors because that's the logical thing to do when you don't want to blow the spot. Unfortunately, using discretion when posting about locations seems to be a lost art among our more attention-seeking constituents who have since put this location on blast by publicly identifying it. To anyone who does this sort of thing for any notable amount of time, a pretty reliable fact becomes increasingly hard to ignore: Publicly identifying locations like this is why we can't have nice things. Loose lips sink ships and all that.

Regarding the aforementioned news stories: There was a segment earlier this year wherein a local news reporter just walked up to, and went inside of, this building.. without obtaining permission.. entirely on camera. If the law applies to everyone equally, then what I learned from that news segment was that it is entirely acceptible to enter stuff like this without permission as long as you meet the definition of a "reporter". As luck would have it, I, too, am "a person who reports" on things I find interesting. And as an official reporter, it is my duty to report that I am henceforth immune to those annoying and inconvenient rules which govern ordinary civilians; I shall commence forthwith using these newly discovered powers to their fullest potential.

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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Rocket Factory was constructed in the 1950s and during the short decade in which it was operational, it contributed significantly to the course of world history. It was decommissioned shortly afterward, in the late 1960s. Of the remaining buildings, the steel frame structures were used for testing the fuel delivery systems and gathering data. The resultant data was sent back to a reinforced bunker through a short tunnel which connected the buildings. Inside the bunkers, the data was collected and analyzed. In the case of the main control bunker, there are two longer tunnels about 100 yards in length, which connect to two separate large test pads for the rockets. The tunnels themselves are featureless rectangular concrete tubes and one is a dead end, the other lets out at the base of one of the pads. Unfortunately, the control bunker has been completely gutted and drywall has replaced the wall of monitors and other electronics which once decorated the space properly. When you consider the fact that this site was decommissioned 50 years ago and that there's still any salvageable material left, we consider ourselves fortunate that we found anything left here at all.

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