Ambassador Apartment Ruins - Gary, Indiana

[onejazzy1]

omg..so sad..such a beautiful building left to rot..

[jeepers2655]

shoulda known it was owned by US STEEL.

[garyman219]

Thk God Rudy Gay faggot ass will be out of office.His bitch ass did the crib so dirty

[garyman219]

Thats the G.the most ghetto city in the great U.S.A.

[MartyCortez]

i wish i had a million dollars..........id fix this place

[crashland123]

@MartyCortez take more than a million

[mobiuscom]

@MartyCortez a million wouldnt go all that far. I have no idea what labour and material costs are in the US, but assuming its similar to Cadada, a million PER FLOOR would hardly do it. The building is sadly far beyond "fixing". Even the cheapest option (quasi restore) to complely demo the interior, and build a new structure tying into the exterior shell would cost tens of millions of dollars. The exterior facade (brickwork,windows, etc) couldn't be restored for anywhere near a million. very sad,

[jeepers2655]

@MartyCortez take more than that to fix this.

[JVONFURST]

would be nice to see some pix of it in its heyday..

[TheAnneelise]

Oh my goodness! What magic to see these photos, these ghosts of once-lovely places!

I just met a patient tonight, an elderly lady, who lived in the Ambassador Apartments. She said, "they were beautiful, they had cedar-lined closets!"

I am amazed at the potential of our human ability to create beauty and to destroy and create chaos and darkness.

Thank you for posting this video.

[slworking2]

Awesome slideshow. Me and some friends explored this, the City Methodist Church, and the hospital (right next to the police station) last week. First time in Gary and definitely won't be my last. While some people here comment on it being a sh!thole, I find beauty in old decaying buildings like this. Spoke with a few of the locals and they were quite friendly.

[slowmanEF]

I hate going through Gary on the way to Chicago. It's a sh!thole.

[jadedheart30]

what happened here

[BoyScout1960]

@jadedheart30

A combination of neglect and the almost unbelievable weather conditions due to the so-called "Lake effect." Gary has as many as 35-40 freeze/thaw cycles a DAY in the winter, and that, coupled with the high humidity in summer, causes abandoned buildings to crumble. There are now plants actually growing in the piles of bricks on the floor of the church. The entire building is close to complete collapse.

[jadedheart30]

what happened here

[roadlesswandering]

You can see how beautiful the inside was. This is not a reflection of Gary, but of landowners. Some people buy things and then abandon them.

[MiracleMile90]

@roadlesswandering: The same thing can also be said of Detroit, Youngstown, and several other Rust Belt cities that have fallen into disrepair..........

[LocustsOfSteel]

beautiful ornate wood work by the fireplace, they don't make em like that anymore. and yet again great music selection, i don't suppose you could recommend a few artists from your videos to me?

[Booze129]

That's america for you they let shit rot for 40 + years or  and just put barb wires all over it.

Same shit in Detroit,Chicago,Philly,Baltimo­re,NJ

N.Y.

[stonerumble]

blast the hole freaking thing..

[peckerwood70]

looks like that whole town is going down hill.

[arlichar11]

its scary place to be

[mixshopdan]

use to live next door that building in the mid 80"s

[boazrg]

What was it like at that time? What condition was the building in?

[mixshopdan]

no i think poeple were still living there at the time

[are92fan2]

im literally in tears all that beatiful architectual detail gone to waste makes me teary eyed

[joeyeggy]

What a beautiful old building...hope it is restored to it's former glory one day soon..

[Booze129]

U.S. guvernment lets all old building, houses, hospitals, work factory's go down to shit and rot away. It's sad and this has been the reality for many decades.

[tndrRoni]

why was this gorgeous building abandoned??

[manly427]

Gary was built in1906 but the U.S. Steel Co. that should give you an idea as to why it is abandoned

[MWilsonVideos]

didn't you know? The government shuts down a building when it doesn't get enough money or gets too old and is likely to collapse.

[LuigiGodzillaGirl]

It's still a beautiful place even in its dilapidated condition. Are there any plans to save it?

[threestarpr]

I wrote a letter to Obama ( you know the website where you can give your view of what America should do about economy) so I told them to make Gary a youth corp for farming town. Teach farming and seasonally young people can go to earn money on organic farms like Kabutz in Israel. Im sure gary was a beautiful place at one point. Those buildings were classic American. Imagine the town revitalized with youth and farming, music venues, restaurants serving fresh foods, hemp products etc...

[3089280288]

@threestarpr Detroit could actually that becuase at least there is still and industry. Some residents are urning lots into community gardens.

[jgbaren]

You can still tell just how beautiful it used to be inside, especially that room with the wood panels and the fireplace. Very sad :(

[jb37usa]

This is Liberia or somewhere in the 3rd world right? What happened?

[WNxShisno]

Gary, a town in northern Indiana. Used to have a bit of industry, now it's a shit hole. Sadly, most people only know it as "the town Michael Jackson is from".

[7fire7ice7]

lol no it was a booming steel mill city but when the mills shut down people moved and there weren't many jobs and then the government was slacking. this is where michael jackson was born and lived as a child.

[northvilletunnels]

Nice collection of pictures. It was a cool building. Always sad to see stuff left to rot.

[Jumpman5000]

I actually was across the street from this building at Jefferson Elementary School for a meeting and commented how beautiful it used to be when I was a child. I always wondered what it looked like inside.

[gfdsta1]

Great videos of the wonderful architecture from the City of Gary. Its sad what has become of this once great city. Did you go to the penthouse apartment on the top floor?

[AthensAnna]

Seeing these gems is so cool. I love it that you took photos of them to encourage people to restore them. May it work!

[mgflorida]

Wow! I used to walk past this building 50 years ago on my way to Holy Angels School. It was built to last for several hundred years. It's tragic to waste such resources when cheezier modern construction is so expensive.

[boazrg]

What was the area like 50 years ago?

[mgflorida]

The West Side was a decent working class area until the late 60's. It was safe for children. We walked to school and played in the parks. People maintained their homes reasonably well. I rented my first apartment as a young adult for $60 a month in 1968. It was a nice place to grow up. I never heard of a burglary. By 1970, however, the area began to change. My folks moved out of the West Side in 1975. Neighbors had already had burglaries, and my dad caught a guy breaking in.