As a teacher, this sort of things just drives me crazy. Surely somewhere in that school district a teacher is dying for a couple computers, new chairs, musical instrument cases, etc. but can't get them because there's no money... but then this stuff sits here unused. It wouldn't cost the district anything to have an internal district garage sale here for other schools to take what they can use!
I worked for a school district doing IT work for a while. There was a crazy amount of red tape involved to transfer equipment between schools, I was told due to funding sources and other budgeting matters. We had a middle school close, and we cleared out their labs, full of decent computers, which all went to the warehouse and sat. Meanwhile my days were spent trying to keep other computers functioning that should have been replaced years ago. Towards the end of my time there, I smuggled a bunch of nice unused monitors out of one school, and brought them to another that had pretty crummy ones. The teachers were thrilled! I left before I could hear the fallout about "unauthorized equipment transfers".
Dude this school is massive holy sh*t. How can they just abandon such a nice school?? A basement, a pool, a really nice theater, and so much more that's crazy.
I went to this school and graduated in 2014. There were never any music classes the entire time I went there, so those violin cases have to be a joke. The pool was never used until the end of my senior year for a pool party. The fallout shelter!!! My history teacher told us about it! Always told us, it’s under the pool with a 2 year supply of food. Interesting to actually see it! I once explored the basement and if you continued down there were the locker rooms are, you’ll find dance studios! Like the mirror wall ones that you see in movies! Very cool. The 4th room has the access to the greenhouse. It’s where the science labs are too. Also there’s a dark room but I have no idea what it looks like because it was always locked. The culinary rooms were never used either while I was there. We had no electives, no clubs, barely any sports except football, basketball, and stuff like that. Where that mosaic wall is, those are the art rooms. That was the door to the ceramics room. ROTC, the picture is of Principal Simmons and I recognize my fellow classmates from 2014. A wonderful little update: this school is temporary being used to house a local school while the actual school is being rebuilt. The reason for this school being closed down was the lack of funding, crime rates, and absolute joy of walking through metal detectors every morning. The rats and roaches were a joy too. It’s a joy a to relive walking through these hallways. Btw, there’s cameras in each corner of each floor. Principal pulled up footage as evidence a few times during assemblies.
It gets you wondering what's its story with the students and how half them felt that the memory's they made are lost and forgotten in time this reminds me of my highschool year's
As a violinist, I'm just saying someone could make thousands of dollars off of those violin cases if they spent probably two minutes cleaning off each one.
@@solared Same. Still, I'm sure they could (or could have) taken that and given it to somebody who builds violins or sold it. A good fingerboard can be sold for about $40 without strings attached to it.
@@natalierobinson6138 that's what I was thinking. I just glanced at it during the video so I'm not sure if that was a cello or viola fingerboard but I can't be bothered to look again. After all, could've gotten good money for that.
Regressed... Won't be nice to see. Hardly any natural decay takes place in one year, but a lot of vandalism and trashing things for no reason certainly can be expected. So sad.
I graduated from here in 2012, this is northwestern high school located in Baltimore, MD. I miss this school, we had one of the best high school buildings in all of Baltimore and they shut the school down because of low enrollment. We fought so hard to keep this school open being that it was only one of the very few in northwest Baltimore. I had 4 good years here, I spent a lot of my time at the pool because I was a swimmer. Even when I went there the whole school wasn’t being used, the building is massive. Forever a northwestern wildcat !
In the UK we have schools that still use the 200+ year old building they were originally established in. Such buildings are protected and difficult to bring up to modern standards in most cases, but in villages where building a new school would either mess with the village aesthetic or if there's simply no space to build one, we make do with what we have.
@@HarmonicaMustang when the school was built the surrounding area was probably mostly upper middle class people, but eventually the area got poorer and more "urban" . at that point it's only a matter of time before the school closes due to funding issues based on low standardized test scores and high dropout rate
@@orenthalsimpson wow, so they close schools because the students don't do well? I would have thought the government would give more money to underperforming schools to give the students more support? So when a poor school closes, where do the students go then?
I'd totally buy it for 1 dollar and turn it into something profitable or just a private home with a pool and home cinema etc. WTH is wrong with these people?! When was this abandoned...yesterday?!
@@HarmonicaMustang Here in Sweden we still use a building which was built in the 16th century (and the wear on the stairs show it haha). Mind you the school is much older than that, having been established in 1085, but the idea of new buildings like the ones seen in the video standing empty feels so strange.
@@ryanrussell4721 Charles F Brush High in Ohio had 1550-1700+ students going there at its all time peak (during my years there) officially, though I swear the count was much closer to 2000....
@@FishingWithPiette if you’re buying a thrift store piano for $200 it’s probably in poor condition and i bet that grand that was thrown off the stage was worth more before it got destroyed
It always creeps me out to think a portion of a school is abandoned while still being used. I dunno why, just creepy that those kids were walking around knowing a whole half of the school wasn’t being used
This. Literally only HALF the school was used. That hallway with the music rooms were never used the entire time I went there. The 2nd floor that side was office for home school kids. 3rd floor was the culinary rooms that were never used either. 4th floor (and greenhouse) was locked closed my senior year. We NEVER used the courtyard except 1 time my freshman year for a nice cookout. But there was a goose that laid eggs there EVERY year there. There’s even dance studios in the basement. Abandoned for decades. The pool was literally cleared out and fixed during my senior year.
my grandfather worked for a school district. not a teacher though. One school he helped at had a closed off second floor. Once he caught some kids having sex up there
You probably wouldn’t have liked my high school them. There was an entire floor that was for all intents and purposes, abandoned. Only time kids went up there was at the beginning and end of the school year to get books.
21:00 - that brought back an odd recollection - those barrels were ubiquitous in school growing up - we mostly stored gym equipment in them - I never read them & always just figured it was a barrel - as a kid, I had no idea
But just anything else in life you will quickly adjust. I went to a very large high school and i thought when i entered my freshman year i would be lost for a long time but i quickly learned the school and thats been over 20yrs ago (1997) and i still know the layout of that school like it was yesterday
It was just a square. 😂 easy. There’s stairwells at every corner. And the classrooms were numbered by the floor and how close to the center it was. The school is a giant cube basically. I got locked in the stairwell with the giant “do not enter” sign. Very fun.
my schools shaped like an E and the room numbers like to skip around, was interesting watching the freshmen get lost during the first two weeks of school
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17.
this is my old school i swear it is. i graduated in 98. after the school closed they temporarily put another high school in there while their new building was being built.
@@xxsupremoz2187 a lot of cirty schools where combined for some reason this isn’t the only school. but i also know that’s the community wanted the school gone because it was an urban school. and the area was in the suburbs. but i got confirmation that was definitely my high school.
I might be looking at it from a saccharine, sentimental perspective, but I can't help but think of schools as being - albeit in an abstract sense - altars to the formative memories of thousands upon thousands of people. First loves, romantic relationships, friendships, events, stresses, torment, triumphs ... all eventually condensed into a potent nostalgia. Thus it is sad for me see any school abandoned.
What really ticks me off is when school boards tear perfectly good schools down just to rebuild them. New facilities are nice, but why destroy history like that?
@@davidmorris9871 they do that because they have to find ways to blow taxpayers money. I would love to know how much money is being wasted to just keep the power on in this school. A school with an indoor pool?? But that's not good enough so they close it?? School boards waste more money than anyone knows. This video proves it.
I love the slight fear of the cameras still running and the fact that someone could be there. This is most definitely one of the best explorations because of that and of how much to that school there was.
Seeing all those computers really hurts my heart they’re all windows seven grade which is still fairly relevant and useable despite no longer being supported and the fact that everything is left behind and the power is still on it’s just the cherry on top
In my experience being around Lenovo computers when they get to be 5 or 6 years old they are extremely prone to breaking down every computer lab in my school has at least four or five broken down think stations
Those are either M91p or M92p, still relevant and they do run Windows 10. A memory upgrade and an SSD makes them very quick machines. My experience is different in that the extended life failure rate of those is very low. Less than 5% in fact at 7 years of age.
@@brockbreacher Unless 4th gen and up, they're practically useless even with Linux. Granted you will have pc resalers AKA people who watch Linus tech tips and hold no certs buy older 2-3rd gen intel chips to resale for a premium price to idiots. Idiots selling stuff to bigger idiots.
@@brockbreacher tbh tho, just overwrite the disk and boot Ubuntu server. Setup ssh and leave it mining crypto currency for as long as they run. I'd say you can make at least $10 a day from the tax payers.
@brock breacher : May be the PC's aren't the first top bench performers, but the routers, screens etc. are quite okay e.g for just read the newspapers and search library catalogues! I mean my first PC was Taiwan clone 8086, you could see every point of the black and white graphic (hercules or CGA) be painted when doing Mandelbrot.......very slowly 😁 but programming the routines on Borland Pascal doesn't differ !
It's possible they might not be allowed to remove it or it's basically built inside the building so it would be difficult to remove it without destroying it.
@@brianhaflin9799 the building is abandoned. They could cut walls/doorways to get it out, no issue. This is bureaucratic red tape wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars of desperately needed equipment in a horribly underfunded education system.
Honestly. Going to an outdoor school without working AC living in the South sucks. I don't get how they couldn't repurpose any of the stuff let alone building, they had a pool for christs sake
I work in building automation, controlling boilers, air handlers, everything. I would love if you went into mechanical rooms more often. You'll find panels that have controllers in them that run all the building. Often there will be dates or names inside these panels. From these dates you can usually be able to find the year the building was built. at 17:22 I think I see a Johnson controls panel with a logo they stopped using circa 2008. I see paper data recorders so I know this panel was installed later than the school was built, probably an upgrade to the boilers.
From a guy who loves this era of tech, it breaks my heart to see so many computers and switches just left behind! We actually need a couple 24 port network switches for our home, and the ones left unused here would have been a perfect fit. The computers left behind are actually better spec than half the computers at my local school. It's shocking how these are just left behind, never to be used again. I really hope the pianos, computers, switches etc find a home sometime soon, as it won't be long before they can't be salvaged at all. Unfortunately, it's unlikely, but there's easily over $100,000 worth of equipment and instruments left to decay here. Loving the videos by the way, I can't belive what good videos you produced at the start (for the time) and how far you've come. Keep it up! Edit: I believe these PCs are 2nd/3rd gan I5's (or around that time and spec), and I wouldn't be suprised if those switches could handle at least 5gb/s, or 1gb/s at the absolute minimum
ChiefBeatzOfficial I wish it was like that.. unfortunately it’s not 😞 poorer areas get less money than the rich/highly populated schools. It’s crappy, I know, but unfortunately that’s the way it is
Let me rephrase that schools that are older and need some improvement. That school had a lot of chairs, lunch room tables, desk etc. It could be donated .
yea they are massive and crowded.... the halls get backed up like a traffic jam during all the switching periods. you gotta squeeze through everyone lol
that's what I always think when I see american schools here and in movies, they seem to have dozens of clubs for after school activities and different sports teams which compete against each other.
This seems to be the most common type of school but my school in California and most west coast schools are made up of multiple one story buildings, all halls are outdoors. My high school, with like 6 buildings most having 6 classes each not counting the theater/gym etc. buildings is dwarfed by this one!
School sizes vary depending on location and areas serviced (for example, I went to high school in a small town, but it was quite large because it served many communities in the region). Obviously, the U.S. is very diverse in population in geography. I imagine that U.S. schools are probably huge in general compared to some countries where land is more scarce (again, depends on the area - New York City vs. Fargo, North Dakota, for example). Also, we are indulgent. That all said, schools in urban areas with large populations are generally MASSIVE.
When they turned on those computers I pictured the IT guys back at the data center flipping out seeing ghost computers connect to their servers. I am also outraged that nothing here got repurposed and everything was still on, sucking power.
Based on video evidence, the school closed around 2017. Even then all of those computers were outdated and practically junk. I was more shocked to see the old CRT televisions. That is really outdated for 2017. I went to a small high school that struggles for cash and they upgraded their TVs back around 2005-2010 to LCD. And yes, the absolute waste of electricity is the biggest complaint. Easily hundreds (probably more) of dollars a month wasted.
@@bumdeskanzler doesn't have to. part of being creative is working with what you have, if anyone shot a movie here they probably wouldn't have access to the switches so they couldn't turn lights off but horror isn't always based around darkness. i can think of a few things that'd work for horror here even with all the light as long as it was done right
I don't know about the school, but my high school as two buildings, for different grades, 11-15 first part, 15-18 second part. And it's probably like that, you'll probably never see the other part of the buildings, cause you'll be late if you gotta walk a mile to another class.
It’s got a very distinct sent, yeah. Usually when stenches irritating enough you naturally tend to filter it out over time. This is why you can think your room smells fine when your mom thinks it smells like something died. Not with chlorine, though, the smell is basically impossible to adapt to, so you’ll never not smell chlorine in a pool. Also, fun side note, you don’t actually smell chlorine when you’re near a pool. What you’re really smelling is chlorine reacting with other chemicals in the water. What yields the strongest reaction? Urine. So, if you’re by a pool and it smells extra strong, that probably means there’s a lot of piss in the water.
Same as soon as I heard them say the pool is this way first thing i smell is chlorine it’s purely from memory and the familiarity of school it’s like psychological conditioning almost everyone has it
That chlorine smell was so strong in the school that you could smell as soon as you get to the first floor. Especially near the gym. Funny enough, that pool wasn’t even filled for the majority of the time that I went here. Until my senior year’s pool party to celebrate the pool being repaired. 😂
if they decide to recover, i would go volunteer to clean up this place. Dude, this place deservers more respect. But the question is: who pays the eletricity?
9:36 Switch is in PoE mode, so everything that is lit up is what is getting power over ethernet. Which is usually access points or security cameras. Fiber uplink on the far left goes somewhere, it may or may not be active. In the future if you see a switch like this, the button on the left indicates its mode. Poke it till its on PoE, the ports that light up are active. Either wireless APs or usually cameras. So you can just unplug those.
"Uuhhhuhghhgg we cant afford to run the school it costs too much!..." *leaves power on and heat... etc... and leaves thousands of dollars of equipment* How stupid is this area's school...
There are probably still people working inside of the building. Paperwork, cleaning up, removing stuff, etc. It actually can take several years to remove everything from an building this size.
Staffing costs the most in a school. Each building needs administrators, custodians, and secretaries. Close a school and you can reduce those staffing needs, and you won’t need to replace them at a new school. A building that size probably had four or five admins at about 100,000 a year each.
@@Alex-ow6hk what could you possibly want from there that you are willing to put in your home ? Those old ass crappy school computers ? 30 year old TVs? dirty chairs and tables?
Sad to see the Blodgett ovens smashed. Those are the exact same ones we've got at work. They're expensive as hell, from all I know. Tens of thousands of dollars.
If they ever recover equipment to sell or donate, I have a feeling the oven will be scrapped because of the broken doors. Even if you can buy replacement doors for it.
The price of the whole oven itself is around $10-$20k, depending on the model. They sell those windows in the door for about $400. I found the industrial kitchen catalogue at work (our steam table is broken) and they have replacement parts listed but it's probably best to get a certified technician to do it.
Old kitchen and medical equipment can still after 20+ years have thousands of dollars in value, it because of this I know of piece of medical equipment still in use that uses Windows 95, it not on any network, as it air gapped
You have to retain heat above freezing temps in properties, lest you allow water to freeze in pipes. In smaller structures one can drain all pipes and drains... though this is a large task, even in smaller homes. But in places like this, with boiler heat, plumbing (both feed and drain) all over the place, etc... you can't really expect to empty everything. So you either A: dedicate a small budget to retaining temps above freezing.. .. which comes into play with not just pipes, but all building materials... as expansion and contraction will destroy a structure. At least, the surface level structure. Tile, cement, wood, trim, plaster, drywall, etc.... Or you B: just allow all this to occur, knowing that the property will be demolished anyway.
it is not a 'large task' to drain the pipes in a home. You turn off the valve at the main and drain it from the lowest spigot on your property. Depending on how far the spigot is from the main it can take anywhere from 1-5 minutes. In a large building like this i dont see it being any different. You shut off the water at the source and drain it from the lowest point. Water isnt being trapped anywhere, thats not how piping is ran, the only place that would have standing water is P traps
@@Durnhold It gets a lot more in depth when you are ensuring that every trap is vacant of water too... as well as any belly in any copper or pex runs... Doing it and doing it right, so it still doesn't rupture anyway, are two very different things. And one takes a good bit more time and effort. Furthermore, to transition that into the scale of a commercial property like this, and it's clearly a no contest scenario. This would be an unfathomable amount of bellys, traps, and even various piping that may or may not have a direct connection, due to commercial plumbing practices differing greatly from residential. The fact that I alluded to residential for comparison's sake, when talking explicitly about commercial... then having you come in and talk your deal about how easy it truly is in a house setting... well this shows just how unrelated your response even is. I mean, that side of it wasn't even the subject matter... merely supporting information. And again, there's doing it and then there's doing it right. And if all one does is turn off the main and open the lowest valve, well first off they won't even drain it that way, as you'll still have to open the highest valve as well... all of them in the home preferably. To allow make up air into the system and even have it drain at all. But again, if you did this and only this, you'd come back after winter to find that all of your P, S, and J traps have frozen and ruptured. As well as if it's an older home and there is terracotta under the cement in the basement, and it has a belly trap in it (or just a belly), then congrats, you are now digging up your basement and replacing that as well. If you have PVC or ABS in your first level floors, of course then meaning that they are hanging from the ceiling in the basement, and if any of these have a low spot... congrats, you're replacing this now too... and you'll have to fix every issue, pressurize the system, find the next issue, let it down.... fix that... redo over and over until no more issues. And that's just on the feed side. Drains are WAY worse to track all of the cracks down in. I've gone through enough residential properties, recovering them after exactly this has occurred. After some new buyer gets them cheap, then realizes that it's not a small fix to remove every single wall, ceiling, etc... finding every compromised pipe that was allowed to freeze and burst. And when this is reality, and it is a commercial setting of which is still tethered to a utilized building no less... well of course they are simply going to opt to keep the utilities on to the extent to at least not allow the place to deteriorate at an alarmingly accelerated level. The simple act of keeping a bit of heat and some juice means that they don't have to employ contractors down the road, paying tens of thousands if not greatly more, to remedy the issues that shutting it off would create. It's definitely worth the bill small monthly bill to anyone in the decision making seat.
@@Dex99SS the reason i talked about homes is because you said "this is a large task, even in smaller homes." You dont have to drain traps individually, if the system is empty of water, any remaining water in the traps that freeze has room to expand and will not damage the pipe. You are correct that you have to also open a valve at the top of the system to get it to drain. A large scale system is still going to have the same physics as a small scale one. Water drains to the lowest point, any remaining small amounts of water in traps or bellies has room to expand and wont damage the pipe. I am a pipefitter by trade I install as well as winterize systems in industrial environments. Large scale systems. Prior to that I worked as a residential plumber for years. It is not difficult to drain or winterize a system. Also would like to say we could very well just have different definitions of "difficult" and that just because it isnt difficult doesn't mean it isnt expensive.
@@daniilivanov9601 Not being retarded helps... It keeps the typing time down.... Takes like 3 min or less when you are able to actually speak properly, articulate ones words, and type effectively at 90-100wpm+ ... The better question is, why is everyone else so pathetic and inept that words are now scary when in numbers? If it isn't 140 characters or less, it's TLDR ... which really limits what an idiot can potentially learn. Real catch 22 there... real revolving door.
@@BigNy32 it can also be assumed this school closed between 2016 and 2018 judging by the 2017 calender seen towards the beginning of the video (since it's possible they updated the calender just before closing the school, or didn't bother updating the calender when closing)
What makes me super sad about abandoned schools is that it used to be full of people,full of life, these walls have seen a lot of events and now they are just sitting there,rotting in complete silence:(
@@gekkomonster7837 You fail to realize that putting a bunch of street people indoors together results in assaults, injuries, rapes and deaths. They don't want to follow rules and want to use their drugs.
These buildings could’ve been turned into something useful again and yet so many are left to rot. They would spend less money renovating them and transforming them as compared to demolishing
I can't imagine coming back to my highschool 20 years later and seeing it abandoned, I would be so sad just walking through it. The school I go to is Crestview Highschool and it is an amazing place, but due to it's age and being built in 1969 I think it's years are numbered
my gosh! it made my heart broken into pieces when i saw the piano, those violin cases! and here i am tryin' to find some sponsors to buy 2nd hand violins and violas to my students in poverty living in the mountain area!
24:50 Those are Erlenmeyer flasks. 😉 Awesome explore again. And like in every high school you have been to, I can not believe how WELL equipped these schools are! They have everything! Theater, swimming pool, indoor racetracks, those computers, music instruments, well equipped labs (we were not allowed to work in labs, just sitting there and watching the teacher doing things) a school kitchen etc etc. When I went to school in Germany in the 90s we had literally nothing but a house with desks, chairs and blackboards in it. We went home at 1pm so no need for a school kitchen but everything else in US high schools is amazing! Our books were from the 60s when it still was a girls' school, we had some oooold typewriters from the 30s (those mechanical heavy black ones) and a smelly battered, old gym. Equipment probably from the late 70s. Our school was a beautiful mid century building but not maintained. One wall was a huge window instead of a wall and it had no floors, just arcades where the classrooms were and this hall was our auditorium. Beautiful open staircase. But it ended there. Just a beautiful old, worn down building. American high schools are amazing compared to this and from what I see it was a black high school. I don't get why blacks are constantly complaining about being treated bad in the US. This school would have been an inaccessable dream for us... 🤔 Even private schools would not have this amount of equipment.
This is Insane! All that equipment left that could be donated to other schools, local community groups etc. And the property itself is ENORMOUS!! It makes no sense to have abandoned this when it has facilities that far exceed those of any school I went to! I love how you knew the password for your school! In my day there was one computer for the entire class and the class lasted six weeks at an hour a week. You were lucky to even get to touch a keyboard 🤣
The old Baldwin Piano in the theater area is one that would have been made at the Baldwin Piano factory here in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I'm 53 years old and the Baldwin Piano factory has been here since I can remember. My uncle worked there for years as one of the Shellac finishers, so that piano you found just might have a Shellac finish that my uncle applied. Every time I see an old piano just left to rot, it makes me very sad.
@@ToxicFruitSnack No, Baldwin Pianos are sold worldwide. I see videos/movies/and TV shows where someone will be playing a piano and it will have the brand name "Baldwin" on it. It makes me proud to be from Fayetteville when I see that. They make some of the most beautiful and sweetest sounding pianos in the world. Their most beautiful and highest quality model Grand Piano is $60,000.00. So they make VERY high quality instruments. At the factory here in Fayetteville, they also make electronic keyboards and other ekectronic musical instruments. The factory is HUGE. Most people think Arkansas is full of nothing but hillbillies and moonshine stills, but some of the most high-tech equipment, computers, and electronics are designed and made here in Arkansas. Verizon Wireless is an Arkansas company. It was started here as All-Tel and developed into the largest wireless service/equipment provider in the world. But I digress. So just look at any piano that you encounter and if it has the name "Baldwin" on it, just remember that it was beautifully crafted in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've seen Baldwin pianos in movies made in Europe. So their pianos are considered to be prestigious and of utmost quality.
@@CivilEngineerWroxton My parents purchased a Baldwin upright so my sister could take piano lessons back in the 70's, and while not the top of the line by any means, it was very well made and had great sound (and it was justifiably expensive because of the quality). At some point her piano teacher confronted my parents declaring that my sister had to decide between learning piano or playing on the girls softball team. She chose softball and the piano was sold. I always loved that piano and wish I had been old enough to learn how to play at the time.
Al Scarbrough My Baldwin Acrosonic console piano was made in 1973 and in beautiful condition. Those Acrosonic pianos were made for many years and highly popular with the public.
from somebody who goes to a public campus this makes me so sad. so many schools could have used resources they left behind like their books, computers, tables, and other tech. i know some of it might be outdated but there are so many communities which would really benefit from using them because they can’t afford to buy it. i know delivering it would have been an issue, but why not at least offer to donate it to an institute/nonprofit that could use it? it’s a shame to see all of that stuff rot and ultimately rot when it could still be used :(
Legally often they can't. if items were donated or paid for by grants, They cannot be used at other schools or given to another school without permission. It sounds odd but you actually can get into some major legal trouble for doing that!
Y’all should visit Appalachia High school in Appalachia Virginia. Our schools consolidated so the school in Appalachia is now abandoned except for the gym that the town uses! Love your videos!
@@Max34557 Those computers are still worth about $50 to $100 each, they were worth more back when that school was closed. They could have easily sold them on an auction
This holds sooooo many of my families memories! 3 generations in my family graduated from here with multiple people in each generation. Northwestern used to be a school where you could graduate with certificate in a career or your choice. It once was a trade/zone school. We had a daycare center, criminal justice program, cosmology, JROTC, photography and so much more. Now we did have a lot of fights and street beefs boiling over into school, but it was still lit! Our sports teams were lit 🔥 I graduated in 2008 and I’m not gonna lie the leadership pretty much let the school fall apart after that. Even though they are using the building as a transitional space for other schools while they rehad the other schools…it’s way too large of a building to be waisted. We had the best times in that school.
This is so cool to hear. Like its crazy hearing stories from people who actually went here, even just given the odds of alumni even stumbling on this video in the first place. So cool
I think it's crazy, but also really cool when a school still has that kind of lighting control system in the auditorium. Those have been obsolete since the 1980s, and don't compare to the new systems at all, but I find them really interesting.
@Stephen Thompson Couldn’t agree more. Thank you for speaking the truth. It’s quite obvious that a certain Party condone rioting, looting, the destruction of monuments and property, and the eradication of history; while the other Party seeks to conserve, study, protect, and learn from our history. It cannot be more obviously portrayed than through the past few months in certain cities run by said former Party.
Was watching Track meet in late 70's when had Tornado Warning. They took us all into Schools Basement/Fall out Shelter. Didnt even know school had one until then...
@@ImSimplyAlwaysBored Seems kind of pointless to have a fallout shelter if the public doesn't know how to get to it. Even if those things could have saved you, you'd have to get to them very quickly.
That's how High School works in America. Techinically they can force you to be in school by law so you're not allowed to skip. I'm glad I don't live in America anymore
christopher békési tell that to my attendance lol I skipped 411 classes my senior year I never seen metal bars to lock kids into a specific area at my school of 1500 kids
It's insane that this school is as nice as it is considering how old that it is... my HS was built in '92 and it's a just one step above a literal shit hole.
Schools built in the 1950's were built to double as community fallout shelters, which is a poorly kept secret. They're built out of heavy duty concrete. They don't built shit like that anymore. It's all lightweight wood truss and drywall because it's cheaper.
@@hillbillyb4u "Wow, these canned peaches are a real treat. Just the right amount of natural sugar in that syrup and it doesn't taste artificial at all."
He would look at the date and would be slightly disappoited. To new. If it dind't made it at least through one world war, it is a bit to new. I remember him eatin somethinlg from the bor war.
No doubt, but it doesnt help that budgets are set up so that if every penny isnt spent every single year, (no saving allowed), they are literally penalized by having the upcoming years budget slashed significantly. Certainly no private business operates like that.
Awe that sever room was singing my song. Those things must be a beast from hell to still be spooling at some 8,000+ rpms all those years. During it with no load on them like that is more work than with load. If I seen that I be aching to shut it off before it burns itself out. Anyway this a great video.
24:49 Those specifically are Erlenmeyer Flasks. Easy way to remember: typically beakers have straight sides and no neck, while a flask will have slanted/round sides and a neck.
This brings back so many great memories. This building was huge. Hate to see it abandoned. I remember when all of these rooms were active. Music room, ROTC, Stage Crew, Plays, Sports. C/O 2007!!! Northwestern Wildcats!! 🖖🏾🤙🏾
all of my schools were super small maybe except college, that had 3 floors but it wasn't super big either, this "school" in the video is like a legit mansion/castle compared to those
As a teacher, this sort of things just drives me crazy. Surely somewhere in that school district a teacher is dying for a couple computers, new chairs, musical instrument cases, etc. but can't get them because there's no money... but then this stuff sits here unused. It wouldn't cost the district anything to have an internal district garage sale here for other schools to take what they can use!
It's just sad so many memories gone
I worked for a school district doing IT work for a while. There was a crazy amount of red tape involved to transfer equipment between schools, I was told due to funding sources and other budgeting matters. We had a middle school close, and we cleared out their labs, full of decent computers, which all went to the warehouse and sat. Meanwhile my days were spent trying to keep other computers functioning that should have been replaced years ago.
Towards the end of my time there, I smuggled a bunch of nice unused monitors out of one school, and brought them to another that had pretty crummy ones. The teachers were thrilled! I left before I could hear the fallout about "unauthorized equipment transfers".
Welcome to government waste. This is why you pay so much in taxes and get so little for every tax dollar.
@@compmanio36 Hey man government contracts don't come cheap /eyeroll
Somebody had those violins though, probably redistributed via ebay
Dude this school is massive holy sh*t. How can they just abandon such a nice school?? A basement, a pool, a really nice theater, and so much more that's crazy.
might as well BLJ on some stairs to explore further
this place is as big as a castle
probably got too expensive to maintain all of it... it always comes down to budget shortages...
@@smt4090 i appreciate the culture in your comment ~
@@albertovitsch453 Which is insane, you would think that investing more money into your schools is an obvious thing to do.
@@albertovitsch453 but the power is still on...money being spent either way, right?
I went to this school and graduated in 2014. There were never any music classes the entire time I went there, so those violin cases have to be a joke. The pool was never used until the end of my senior year for a pool party. The fallout shelter!!! My history teacher told us about it! Always told us, it’s under the pool with a 2 year supply of food. Interesting to actually see it! I once explored the basement and if you continued down there were the locker rooms are, you’ll find dance studios! Like the mirror wall ones that you see in movies! Very cool. The 4th room has the access to the greenhouse. It’s where the science labs are too. Also there’s a dark room but I have no idea what it looks like because it was always locked. The culinary rooms were never used either while I was there. We had no electives, no clubs, barely any sports except football, basketball, and stuff like that. Where that mosaic wall is, those are the art rooms. That was the door to the ceramics room. ROTC, the picture is of Principal Simmons and I recognize my fellow classmates from 2014. A wonderful little update: this school is temporary being used to house a local school while the actual school is being rebuilt. The reason for this school being closed down was the lack of funding, crime rates, and absolute joy of walking through metal detectors every morning. The rats and roaches were a joy too. It’s a joy a to relive walking through these hallways. Btw, there’s cameras in each corner of each floor. Principal pulled up footage as evidence a few times during assemblies.
I would love to go here one day
That's so cool!!
Did y’all have a marching band? I ask cuz I sophomore in marching band
What was the name of the school I ant to see more videos of it!!!!!
@@nomnom7078 northwestern hs in baltimore
Think of all the memories that happened in those hallways. Friendships and rivalries, brief or lasting to this day. Fights, breakups, all that.
And half those kids probably never thought their school would just be abandoned like this.
It gets you wondering what's its story with the students and how half them felt that the memory's they made are lost and forgotten in time this reminds me of my highschool year's
Probably a lot of fights...
@@sz5876 Why you say fight? why not friendships or love or laughs? why you think it had to be a "a lot of fights"
some guy throwing a milk cartin as far as he can, good memories were had in those halls for sure
Gotta love abandoned places with left over chairs that look in better condition than the one I'm sitting on!
LoL I was thinking the same thing.
Lol
Well that's because nobody is using them, so they obviously are in better condition.
I am from the UK and it is the same plus my tutor group use their masks to break their chairs
lmao😂😂
As a violinist, I'm just saying someone could make thousands of dollars off of those violin cases if they spent probably two minutes cleaning off each one.
I really was thinking they were going to find a full viola but it was just a fingerboard
@@solared Same. Still, I'm sure they could (or could have) taken that and given it to somebody who builds violins or sold it. A good fingerboard can be sold for about $40 without strings attached to it.
@@natalierobinson6138 that's what I was thinking. I just glanced at it during the video so I'm not sure if that was a cello or viola fingerboard but I can't be bothered to look again. After all, could've gotten good money for that.
the piano would have been where the money at if it wasn’t vandalized
@@catnoir7993 question is even if the piano was intact how the fuck would they bring it out of the school
I feel like you should come back in a year just to see how things progressed
It would be destroyed
Yooooo that would be cool but it would be sad if they teared it down or smth
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Regressed... Won't be nice to see. Hardly any natural decay takes place in one year, but a lot of vandalism and trashing things for no reason certainly can be expected. So sad.
Totally agree with you
I graduated from here in 2012, this is northwestern high school located in Baltimore, MD.
I miss this school, we had one of the best high school buildings in all of Baltimore and they shut the school down because of low enrollment. We fought so hard to keep this school open being that it was only one of the very few in northwest Baltimore. I had 4 good years here, I spent a lot of my time at the pool because I was a swimmer. Even when I went there the whole school wasn’t being used, the building is massive.
Forever a northwestern wildcat !
Its back open but is fostering cross country elementary middle while their school is getting built I go there as an 8th grader.
@@kay.7700 I know, I went there
My school was so old its hard to imagine such a great condition school being abandoned.
In the UK we have schools that still use the 200+ year old building they were originally established in. Such buildings are protected and difficult to bring up to modern standards in most cases, but in villages where building a new school would either mess with the village aesthetic or if there's simply no space to build one, we make do with what we have.
@@HarmonicaMustang when the school was built the surrounding area was probably mostly upper middle class people, but eventually the area got poorer and more "urban" . at that point it's only a matter of time before the school closes due to funding issues based on low standardized test scores and high dropout rate
@@orenthalsimpson wow, so they close schools because the students don't do well? I would have thought the government would give more money to underperforming schools to give the students more support? So when a poor school closes, where do the students go then?
I'd totally buy it for 1 dollar and turn it into something profitable or just a private home with a pool and home cinema etc. WTH is wrong with these people?! When was this abandoned...yesterday?!
@@HarmonicaMustang Here in Sweden we still use a building which was built in the 16th century (and the wear on the stairs show it haha). Mind you the school is much older than that, having been established in 1085, but the idea of new buildings like the ones seen in the video standing empty feels so strange.
"there's a bunch of musical..violins in here!" I hate it when I find those non-musical violins.
That Hobart mixer in the kitchen is worth more than my truck.
Ikr ugh. As a violin player non musical violins suck. Don’t recommend them for beginners
These guys do have a funny habit of stating g the obvious; "the trophy case lights are still on." "But they took the trophies." "Yeah..."
Lmao 😂 Captain obviousness’ but mean well but yep bloody hilarious!
He was about to say musical equipment but then saw it was a room full of violin ... cases.
Imagine having to go to a school like this and looking for your classes. High school lookin like a university campus
@WindowsLogic Productions I love those animations!
We have two campuses. Both on separate parts of the county, no not separate high schools, legit gotta have your crap split .
You think this is big?😂 I went to Pompano Beach High School and THAT was huge😂😂
@@ryanrussell4721 Gonna have to Google that.
@@ryanrussell4721 Charles F Brush High in Ohio had 1550-1700+ students going there at its all time peak (during my years there) officially, though I swear the count was much closer to 2000....
Whats crazy is how much insanely high value things were left behind. That Hobart mixer is a $20,000 piece of equipment
And that oven that someone trashed is worth over $30,000.
And the pianos
@@aerofish0 no you can go to thrift store and get them for free or like 200
@@FishingWithPiette if you’re buying a thrift store piano for $200 it’s probably in poor condition and i bet that grand that was thrown off the stage was worth more before it got destroyed
@@FishingWithPiette That's a Baldwin baby grand. Even damaged, that's worth thousands of dollars.
It always creeps me out to think a portion of a school is abandoned while still being used. I dunno why, just creepy that those kids were walking around knowing a whole half of the school wasn’t being used
probably had a few urban legends about the unused parts as well, if I had to take a guess
This. Literally only HALF the school was used. That hallway with the music rooms were never used the entire time I went there. The 2nd floor that side was office for home school kids. 3rd floor was the culinary rooms that were never used either. 4th floor (and greenhouse) was locked closed my senior year. We NEVER used the courtyard except 1 time my freshman year for a nice cookout. But there was a goose that laid eggs there EVERY year there. There’s even dance studios in the basement. Abandoned for decades. The pool was literally cleared out and fixed during my senior year.
my grandfather worked for a school district. not a teacher though. One school he helped at had a closed off second floor. Once he caught some kids having sex up there
You probably wouldn’t have liked my high school them. There was an entire floor that was for all intents and purposes, abandoned. Only time kids went up there was at the beginning and end of the school year to get books.
@@dragonflame8913 lmao did anyone not go and explore
the curiosity wouldve killed me and i wouldve probably got in hella trouble
I find it funny that the music room didn't have working lights. It just made me think of the whole "music program is never funded" thing
If you have a pet I want you to abandone it, can you do that for me? Just abandone it.
@@RequiemDream No I'm not gonna abandon any pet I have
@@MoodyMickey How many pats do you have? 😱
@@RequiemDream um, I have one. I had two at one point, but my Betta fish died
@@MoodyMickey Nooo not the fish 😭😢🐟 I like pet fish 😢
21:00 - that brought back an odd recollection - those barrels were ubiquitous in school growing up - we mostly stored gym equipment in them - I never read them & always just figured it was a barrel - as a kid, I had no idea
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Wow that school looked like an maze. Can you imagine being a new student trying to find your class, and not become lost or late for that class?
Yeah I can imagine because my school was huge like this. They could turn my high school into a hospital campus if it were ever abandoned.
But just anything else in life you will quickly adjust. I went to a very large high school and i thought when i entered my freshman year i would be lost for a long time but i quickly learned the school and thats been over 20yrs ago (1997) and i still know the layout of that school like it was yesterday
It was just a square. 😂 easy. There’s stairwells at every corner. And the classrooms were numbered by the floor and how close to the center it was. The school is a giant cube basically. I got locked in the stairwell with the giant “do not enter” sign. Very fun.
my schools shaped like an E and the room numbers like to skip around, was interesting watching the freshmen get lost during the first two weeks of school
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17.
Actual proof that Windows 7 will never die.
Indeed
Im pretty sure that was XP not 7, which makes it even better lmao
@@robyndoney7318 no, it is Windows 7 13:39
Interestingly, I think the first computer they hard-powered off actually had an active session on it still
Long live Windows 7!
Someone must be watching this video and saying "Hey, that's me in that yearbook"
came here to see if anyone who went to this school was here.
@@jenpen1107 Me too
this is my old school i swear it is. i graduated in 98. after the school closed they temporarily put another high school in there while their new building was being built.
@@matthewlightford5043 but why did it go abandoned?
@@xxsupremoz2187 a lot of cirty schools where combined for some reason this isn’t the only school. but i also know that’s the community wanted the school gone because it was an urban school. and the area was in the suburbs. but i got confirmation that was definitely my high school.
I might be looking at it from a saccharine, sentimental perspective, but I can't help but think of schools as being - albeit in an abstract sense - altars to the formative memories of thousands upon thousands of people. First loves, romantic relationships, friendships, events, stresses, torment, triumphs ... all eventually condensed into a potent nostalgia. Thus it is sad for me see any school abandoned.
This is beautiful
My thoughts exactly, man! I couldn’t of said it any better. All of those memories and emotions laid to rest.
Same, I was thinking this as well.
What really ticks me off is when school boards tear perfectly good schools down just to rebuild them. New facilities are nice, but why destroy history like that?
@@davidmorris9871 they do that because they have to find ways to blow taxpayers money. I would love to know how much money is being wasted to just keep the power on in this school. A school with an indoor pool?? But that's not good enough so they close it?? School boards waste more money than anyone knows. This video proves it.
I love the slight fear of the cameras still running and the fact that someone could be there. This is most definitely one of the best explorations because of that and of how much to that school there was.
True I wish they could of gotten in and went back and could see who all was there
I don’t get the fear of cameras. They are filming themselves aren’t they? Obviously no one will be monitoring even if they are still on.
Seeing all those computers really hurts my heart they’re all windows seven grade which is still fairly relevant and useable despite no longer being supported and the fact that everything is left behind and the power is still on it’s just the cherry on top
The ones they turned on were i-series too, throw windows 10 on them and they'd still be completely usable today
Certified Dumbass The one I feel the worst for is the one that was still on when they found it with its fan howling
In my experience being around Lenovo computers when they get to be 5 or 6 years old they are extremely prone to breaking down every computer lab in my school has at least four or five broken down think stations
Those are either M91p or M92p, still relevant and they do run Windows 10. A memory upgrade and an SSD makes them very quick machines.
My experience is different in that the extended life failure rate of those is very low. Less than 5% in fact at 7 years of age.
Techmaster276 Even though it’s just Lenovo junk I would too Because they still work... at least some still do
i die on the inside when i see abandoned computers that still work perfectly
I'm surprised they weren't stolen long ago tbh
@@brockbreacher Unless 4th gen and up, they're practically useless even with Linux. Granted you will have pc resalers AKA people who watch Linus tech tips and hold no certs buy older 2-3rd gen intel chips to resale for a premium price to idiots. Idiots selling stuff to bigger idiots.
@@brockbreacher tbh tho, just overwrite the disk and boot Ubuntu server. Setup ssh and leave it mining crypto currency for as long as they run. I'd say you can make at least $10 a day from the tax payers.
@brock breacher : May be the PC's aren't the first top bench performers, but the routers, screens etc. are quite okay e.g for just read the newspapers and search library catalogues! I mean my first PC was Taiwan clone 8086, you could see every point of the black and white graphic (hercules or CGA) be painted when doing Mandelbrot.......very slowly 😁 but programming the routines on Borland Pascal doesn't differ !
@@ngroy8636 While you're at it, do this with the server equipment that was left there.
This school is so badass. It's so big ... it could be a community / adult college.
I would have killed for a freaking auditorium like that in my school! We had nothing compared to that!
I don’t even HAVE an auditorium. All we have is the cafeteria/gymnasium for plays and stuff.
My elementary school auditorium was pretty nice. Mine now, on the other hand, looks like it used to be a cafeteria.
None of the schools I went to had an auditorium like that. At my high school we had a stage at our gym.
a concert grand piano just sitting there, around $40,000 for a new one...
It's possible they might not be allowed to remove it or it's basically built inside the building so it would be difficult to remove it without destroying it.
A new concert grand piano actually costs over $100,000 new, with top makes reaching prices of $160,000.
Sucks to see a couple of pianos in that condition.
@@brianhaflin9799 the building is abandoned. They could cut walls/doorways to get it out, no issue. This is bureaucratic red tape wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars of desperately needed equipment in a horribly underfunded education system.
@@samanthawright8830 Yeah, those pianos could have easily been moved before they were destroyed. Piano movers can get them out.
This school would be a massive upgrade to the one I went to even in it's current conditions.
Same
Honestly. Going to an outdoor school without working AC living in the South sucks. I don't get how they couldn't repurpose any of the stuff let alone building, they had a pool for christs sake
would not be too much of a step down...
That school looks hella good. It's been 20 years my schools been made (smaller, not in america, different looks) and its not good
It looks better than 90% of schools
I work in building automation, controlling boilers, air handlers, everything. I would love if you went into mechanical rooms more often. You'll find panels that have controllers in them that run all the building. Often there will be dates or names inside these panels. From these dates you can usually be able to find the year the building was built. at 17:22 I think I see a Johnson controls panel with a logo they stopped using circa 2008. I see paper data recorders so I know this panel was installed later than the school was built, probably an upgrade to the boilers.
That's interesting haha
From a guy who loves this era of tech, it breaks my heart to see so many computers and switches just left behind! We actually need a couple 24 port network switches for our home, and the ones left unused here would have been a perfect fit. The computers left behind are actually better spec than half the computers at my local school. It's shocking how these are just left behind, never to be used again. I really hope the pianos, computers, switches etc find a home sometime soon, as it won't be long before they can't be salvaged at all. Unfortunately, it's unlikely, but there's easily over $100,000 worth of equipment and instruments left to decay here. Loving the videos by the way, I can't belive what good videos you produced at the start (for the time) and how far you've come. Keep it up!
Edit: I believe these PCs are 2nd/3rd gan I5's (or around that time and spec), and I wouldn't be suprised if those switches could handle at least 5gb/s, or 1gb/s at the absolute minimum
So many things that could had been given to lower income schools. What a waste
I can't stop thinking about alllllll the stuff on there that ppl could use..
What do you mean by lower income schools? Doesn't all schools get the same funding? Just curious, I'm not American
ChiefBeatzOfficial I wish it was like that.. unfortunately it’s not 😞 poorer areas get less money than the rich/highly populated schools. It’s crappy, I know, but unfortunately that’s the way it is
Let me rephrase that schools that are older and need some improvement. That school had a lot of chairs, lunch room tables, desk etc. It could be donated .
Sandi Harbert Even the computers (which can get really expensive) were in very good condition. I agree, it’s a huge waste
is this an average size of an american high school? cause if so ..wow my secondary school was really tiny in comparison
yea they are massive and crowded.... the halls get backed up like a traffic jam during all the switching periods. you gotta squeeze through everyone lol
that's what I always think when I see american schools here and in movies, they seem to have dozens of clubs for after school activities and different sports teams which compete against each other.
All the elementary, middle, and high schools are huge. Larger population so it's very crowded.
This seems to be the most common type of school but my school in California and most west coast schools are made up of multiple one story buildings, all halls are outdoors. My high school, with like 6 buildings most having 6 classes each not counting the theater/gym etc. buildings is dwarfed by this one!
School sizes vary depending on location and areas serviced (for example, I went to high school in a small town, but it was quite large because it served many communities in the region). Obviously, the U.S. is very diverse in population in geography. I imagine that U.S. schools are probably huge in general compared to some countries where land is more scarce (again, depends on the area - New York City vs. Fargo, North Dakota, for example). Also, we are indulgent.
That all said, schools in urban areas with large populations are generally MASSIVE.
We've reached the point where the abandoned places are younger than I am.
Umm no, you have reached that point :)
I hear ya...
I agree 🤦🏼♀️ I was born in 92”
That school was built in the mid 60's
@@ogalief what school is it?
When they turned on those computers I pictured the IT guys back at the data center flipping out seeing ghost computers connect to their servers. I am also outraged that nothing here got repurposed and everything was still on, sucking power.
Me too
@@kiri2235 your smart
Based on video evidence, the school closed around 2017. Even then all of those computers were outdated and practically junk. I was more shocked to see the old CRT televisions. That is really outdated for 2017. I went to a small high school that struggles for cash and they upgraded their TVs back around 2005-2010 to LCD.
And yes, the absolute waste of electricity is the biggest complaint. Easily hundreds (probably more) of dollars a month wasted.
This could totally be used for a haunted high school movie
Like..The Gallows?
Not haunted. If you just spend money repairing some things and clean up the mess, you have a really good school fr
@@bumdeskanzler they didn't say it was haunted, said it would be a good location to shoot a movie.
@@giannicarandang yes but for a haunted high school movie and it doesnt look haunted tho
@@bumdeskanzler doesn't have to. part of being creative is working with what you have, if anyone shot a movie here they probably wouldn't have access to the switches so they couldn't turn lights off but horror isn't always based around darkness. i can think of a few things that'd work for horror here even with all the light as long as it was done right
This high school seems so big. I’d definitely get lost
I don't know about the school, but my high school as two buildings, for different grades, 11-15 first part, 15-18 second part.
And it's probably like that, you'll probably never see the other part of the buildings, cause you'll be late if you gotta walk a mile to another class.
How many fights happen there
Note to self: in the event of social, political, etc breakdown, find old schools for 1960's military rations.
id rather die in a conflict than live off crackers and water
Let's get this out onto a tray!
@@mcbeet1 Nice
Let's get steve to taste them!
The comments are just everyone roasting the shit out of the US government and education system.
As it should.
They should but not for this. Everything in that school is old and useless.
Factory schools are a failed experiment. Actually schools of indoctrination and, based on the lunch menu, probably crimes against humanity.
Why wasn't this turned into a community centre? A ridiculous waste.
That’s what they did to warren high in warren Michigan. It has been Successful
On gmaps it shows that the building is an elementry and middle school now so mabye it was repurposed
I know right-
Just think of how much money they could make off of this, or how many schools they could help with all this!
Maybe because theres no need for one in the area?
As soon as they walked into the pool room I smelled chlorine.
It’s got a very distinct sent, yeah. Usually when stenches irritating enough you naturally tend to filter it out over time. This is why you can think your room smells fine when your mom thinks it smells like something died. Not with chlorine, though, the smell is basically impossible to adapt to, so you’ll never not smell chlorine in a pool.
Also, fun side note, you don’t actually smell chlorine when you’re near a pool. What you’re really smelling is chlorine reacting with other chemicals in the water. What yields the strongest reaction? Urine. So, if you’re by a pool and it smells extra strong, that probably means there’s a lot of piss in the water.
@@justafellerwithnoprofilepi4546 took the words out my mouth
Romeo
Same as soon as I heard them say the pool is this way first thing i smell is chlorine it’s purely from memory and the familiarity of school it’s like psychological conditioning almost everyone has it
That chlorine smell was so strong in the school that you could smell as soon as you get to the first floor. Especially near the gym. Funny enough, that pool wasn’t even filled for the majority of the time that I went here. Until my senior year’s pool party to celebrate the pool being repaired. 😂
If you told me this school isn't abandoned, I would believe that. This is the best perfect conditioned abandoned school I've seen in awhile
Unfortunately in a few years it’ll probably look terrible like every other abandoned building:/
@@ScoobyDooIsDead its not its to foster schools who’s waiting to get their school rebuilt I go there.
if they decide to recover, i would go volunteer to clean up this place. Dude, this place deservers more respect.
But the question is: who pays the eletricity?
@@booyeah yeah, this school is a waste of tax payer money
Was closed for renovations. It's now back open....
The taxpayers do. Who do you think.
@@Tom-90210 not open, google reveals the school as permanently closed
@@Imshittingmypants what school is this and where
Man those black top tables from science class sure bring back memories
I miss drawing on them. Made some amazing artwork only to have it erased and then do it all over the next day.
My dad has one of the square ones with the wood legs in his workshop he got when they renovated a old school building.
@@physkogamer7139 drawing or carving? 😂
9:36 Switch is in PoE mode, so everything that is lit up is what is getting power over ethernet. Which is usually access points or security cameras. Fiber uplink on the far left goes somewhere, it may or may not be active. In the future if you see a switch like this, the button on the left indicates its mode. Poke it till its on PoE, the ports that light up are active. Either wireless APs or usually cameras. So you can just unplug those.
Send the survival supplies to Steve1989, they deserve a review.
YES!!! LOL!!!
100% lmao
Nice!
I was hoping they would open the containers and get those crackers out on a tray!
I need to see this *so badly*
it's eerie to think that at one point in time, a bunch of high school students roamed those halls..
Nothing but silent halls and buzzing sounds from the lights! Beautiful and eerie !
"Uuhhhuhghhgg we cant afford to run the school it costs too much!..." *leaves power on and heat... etc... and leaves thousands of dollars of equipment*
How stupid is this area's school...
There are probably still people working inside of the building. Paperwork, cleaning up, removing stuff, etc. It actually can take several years to remove everything from an building this size.
Depending on where the school is, they probably left the heat on to prevent pipes from freezing in the winter. Cheaper to leave it running.
Staffing costs the most in a school. Each building needs administrators, custodians, and secretaries. Close a school and you can reduce those staffing needs, and you won’t need to replace them at a new school. A building that size probably had four or five admins at about 100,000 a year each.
Surprisingly all major retailers amusement parks movies that own massive buildings that are abandoned usually leave the power on its cheaper to do so.
That's common core maff
Seeing those broken string instruments broke my heart a little.
i can't believe they just abandon places like this instead of re purposing it
That’s probably why the power and heat are still on. The district is keeping their options open... that’s what they do in my city
Well it wasn't "abandoned".
It is now a private prep academy , grades 9~12.
That cost MONEY
Government is wasting your money then claiming they need more.
@@stanleyhape8427 where is it
5:13 dark hallways in schools always give me the chills
Gosh I see a lot of stuff that could be donated to worthy causes. Huge school!
Or you know uuuh my house
@@Alex-ow6hk what could you possibly want from there that you are willing to put in your home ? Those old ass crappy school computers ? 30 year old TVs? dirty chairs and tables?
@@tezy0193 Those 30-year-old tvs are worth if you restore them or donate them to collectors.
@@mr.moonmn1436 How soon can you be here? I've got a 32" Toshiba for you.
@@peterbills4129 Free candy included?
Sad to see the Blodgett ovens smashed. Those are the exact same ones we've got at work. They're expensive as hell, from all I know. Tens of thousands of dollars.
@Yar Nunya of course, I think the disappointment lies in the lack of respect for stuff.
If they ever recover equipment to sell or donate, I have a feeling the oven will be scrapped because of the broken doors. Even if you can buy replacement doors for it.
The price of the whole oven itself is around $10-$20k, depending on the model. They sell those windows in the door for about $400. I found the industrial kitchen catalogue at work (our steam table is broken) and they have replacement parts listed but it's probably best to get a certified technician to do it.
same for the hobart mixer, even though it seems quite old those things are still worth thousands
Old kitchen and medical equipment can still after 20+ years have thousands of dollars in value, it because of this I know of piece of medical equipment still in use that uses Windows 95, it not on any network, as it air gapped
You have to retain heat above freezing temps in properties, lest you allow water to freeze in pipes. In smaller structures one can drain all pipes and drains... though this is a large task, even in smaller homes. But in places like this, with boiler heat, plumbing (both feed and drain) all over the place, etc... you can't really expect to empty everything. So you either A: dedicate a small budget to retaining temps above freezing.. .. which comes into play with not just pipes, but all building materials... as expansion and contraction will destroy a structure. At least, the surface level structure. Tile, cement, wood, trim, plaster, drywall, etc.... Or you B: just allow all this to occur, knowing that the property will be demolished anyway.
it is not a 'large task' to drain the pipes in a home. You turn off the valve at the main and drain it from the lowest spigot on your property. Depending on how far the spigot is from the main it can take anywhere from 1-5 minutes. In a large building like this i dont see it being any different. You shut off the water at the source and drain it from the lowest point. Water isnt being trapped anywhere, thats not how piping is ran, the only place that would have standing water is P traps
@@Durnhold It gets a lot more in depth when you are ensuring that every trap is vacant of water too... as well as any belly in any copper or pex runs... Doing it and doing it right, so it still doesn't rupture anyway, are two very different things. And one takes a good bit more time and effort. Furthermore, to transition that into the scale of a commercial property like this, and it's clearly a no contest scenario. This would be an unfathomable amount of bellys, traps, and even various piping that may or may not have a direct connection, due to commercial plumbing practices differing greatly from residential. The fact that I alluded to residential for comparison's sake, when talking explicitly about commercial... then having you come in and talk your deal about how easy it truly is in a house setting... well this shows just how unrelated your response even is. I mean, that side of it wasn't even the subject matter... merely supporting information. And again, there's doing it and then there's doing it right. And if all one does is turn off the main and open the lowest valve, well first off they won't even drain it that way, as you'll still have to open the highest valve as well... all of them in the home preferably. To allow make up air into the system and even have it drain at all. But again, if you did this and only this, you'd come back after winter to find that all of your P, S, and J traps have frozen and ruptured. As well as if it's an older home and there is terracotta under the cement in the basement, and it has a belly trap in it (or just a belly), then congrats, you are now digging up your basement and replacing that as well. If you have PVC or ABS in your first level floors, of course then meaning that they are hanging from the ceiling in the basement, and if any of these have a low spot... congrats, you're replacing this now too... and you'll have to fix every issue, pressurize the system, find the next issue, let it down.... fix that... redo over and over until no more issues. And that's just on the feed side. Drains are WAY worse to track all of the cracks down in. I've gone through enough residential properties, recovering them after exactly this has occurred. After some new buyer gets them cheap, then realizes that it's not a small fix to remove every single wall, ceiling, etc... finding every compromised pipe that was allowed to freeze and burst. And when this is reality, and it is a commercial setting of which is still tethered to a utilized building no less... well of course they are simply going to opt to keep the utilities on to the extent to at least not allow the place to deteriorate at an alarmingly accelerated level. The simple act of keeping a bit of heat and some juice means that they don't have to employ contractors down the road, paying tens of thousands if not greatly more, to remedy the issues that shutting it off would create. It's definitely worth the bill small monthly bill to anyone in the decision making seat.
@@Dex99SS the reason i talked about homes is because you said "this is a large task, even in smaller homes." You dont have to drain traps individually, if the system is empty of water, any remaining water in the traps that freeze has room to expand and will not damage the pipe. You are correct that you have to also open a valve at the top of the system to get it to drain. A large scale system is still going to have the same physics as a small scale one. Water drains to the lowest point, any remaining small amounts of water in traps or bellies has room to expand and wont damage the pipe. I am a pipefitter by trade I install as well as winterize systems in industrial environments. Large scale systems. Prior to that I worked as a residential plumber for years. It is not difficult to drain or winterize a system. Also would like to say we could very well just have different definitions of "difficult" and that just because it isnt difficult doesn't mean it isnt expensive.
@@Dex99SS never have I seen a TH-cam comment so long. Why do you have so much time to write this
@@daniilivanov9601 Not being retarded helps... It keeps the typing time down.... Takes like 3 min or less when you are able to actually speak properly, articulate ones words, and type effectively at 90-100wpm+ ... The better question is, why is everyone else so pathetic and inept that words are now scary when in numbers? If it isn't 140 characters or less, it's TLDR ... which really limits what an idiot can potentially learn. Real catch 22 there... real revolving door.
POV: You’re scrolling through the comments trying to see if anybody recognizes the school and maybe attended it when it was open.
It says 'Forest High' on one of the signs that they passed.
@@haileymacisaac5089 how many fights you think happened there
@@haileymacisaac5089 I already looked up Forest High no the school
The wall they passed sayed FPHS and I looked it up and this video popped up so I'm doing research
@@BigNy32 it can also be assumed this school closed between 2016 and 2018 judging by the 2017 calender seen towards the beginning of the video (since it's possible they updated the calender just before closing the school, or didn't bother updating the calender when closing)
Can we like take a moment to realise these dudes could so easily jumpscare us
Don’t give them ideas
Yeah, I really hope they never do though, I hate jumpscares 😭😭
they did do it once before but that was a LONGGG time ago lol
I leave my house to go to work.
The Proper People: we found an abandoned condo with power, water, air conditioning and a gaming computer.
What makes me super sad about abandoned schools is that it used to be full of people,full of life, these walls have seen a lot of events and now they are just sitting there,rotting in complete silence:(
It's depressing the waste in america so much could of been salvaged
Not to mention hundreds of thousands sleeping rough on the streets, this could be accommodation.
*could have been salvaged. WTF???
@@gekkomonster7837 You fail to realize that putting a bunch of street people indoors together results in assaults, injuries, rapes and deaths. They don't want to follow rules and want to use their drugs.
this is the benefit of creating money out of nothing and forcing the entire planet to use and pay for it...
These buildings could’ve been turned into something useful again and yet so many are left to rot. They would spend less money renovating them and transforming them as compared to demolishing
Those kids had such a crazy nice school....10x nicer than my school, which is older! Probably was a great school to graduate from.
That Grand Piano at the beginning that's really sad:( why do people have to destroy stuff!!
even sadder it wasn’t taken out when the school was shut down
@@leakesonasucs ??? weird behavior
I graduated from this high school back in ‘1999’ and to see it like this now!? Saddens me…
😢 I remember going to a town hall to stop the city from shutting it down.
New Shiey AND Proper People vids in one day?! GLORIOUS!
I’m not even four minutes in and I’m starting to feel really bad for this place
Shiey was in Liege! He was at the steel mill the Proper People explored :D
Thanks for that, I did not get a Shiey notification.
Ha! Exactly this!
I love watching abandoned schools and thinking back when the schools were working and the students were studying there, how wonderful it was.🥺🙍
I can't imagine coming back to my highschool 20 years later and seeing it abandoned, I would be so sad just walking through it. The school I go to is Crestview Highschool and it is an amazing place, but due to it's age and being built in 1969 I think it's years are numbered
1969 really isn’t old
The high school I went to was built in 1880 and is still going lol
My old high school was built in 1938 and its still going on
@@charlienorton2337 yeah, not for schools. most schools are from that era (you can tell by the architecture)
My high school opened in 1920 and it's still going.
my gosh! it made my heart broken into pieces when i saw the piano, those violin cases! and here i am tryin' to find some sponsors to buy 2nd hand violins and violas to my students in poverty living in the mountain area!
Wow, truly a bizarre place man. Especially the old computer lab. Really enjoyed this episode!
24:50 Those are Erlenmeyer flasks. 😉 Awesome explore again. And like in every high school you have been to, I can not believe how WELL equipped these schools are! They have everything! Theater, swimming pool, indoor racetracks, those computers, music instruments, well equipped labs (we were not allowed to work in labs, just sitting there and watching the teacher doing things) a school kitchen etc etc. When I went to school in Germany in the 90s we had literally nothing but a house with desks, chairs and blackboards in it. We went home at 1pm so no need for a school kitchen but everything else in US high schools is amazing!
Our books were from the 60s when it still was a girls' school, we had some oooold typewriters from the 30s (those mechanical heavy black ones) and a smelly battered, old gym. Equipment probably from the late 70s. Our school was a beautiful mid century building but not maintained. One wall was a huge window instead of a wall and it had no floors, just arcades where the classrooms were and this hall was our auditorium. Beautiful open staircase. But it ended there. Just a beautiful old, worn down building. American high schools are amazing compared to this and from what I see it was a black high school. I don't get why blacks are constantly complaining about being treated bad in the US. This school would have been an inaccessable dream for us... 🤔 Even private schools would not have this amount of equipment.
Very cool to know this from your point ofview! Thznks!
I'm in love with this, I envy you guys for being able to explore abandoned places like this.
Me too!!
This is Insane! All that equipment left that could be donated to other schools, local community groups etc. And the property itself is ENORMOUS!! It makes no sense to have abandoned this when it has facilities that far exceed those of any school I went to! I love how you knew the password for your school! In my day there was one computer for the entire class and the class lasted six weeks at an hour a week. You were lucky to even get to touch a keyboard 🤣
The old Baldwin Piano in the theater area is one that would have been made at the Baldwin Piano factory here in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I'm 53 years old and the Baldwin Piano factory has been here since I can remember. My uncle worked there for years as one of the Shellac finishers, so that piano you found just might have a Shellac finish that my uncle applied. Every time I see an old piano just left to rot, it makes me very sad.
Oh wow, this comment should be pinned. So this school must be in Arkansas?
@@ToxicFruitSnack No, Baldwin Pianos are sold worldwide. I see videos/movies/and TV shows where someone will be playing a piano and it will have the brand name "Baldwin" on it. It makes me proud to be from Fayetteville when I see that. They make some of the most beautiful and sweetest sounding pianos in the world. Their most beautiful and highest quality model Grand Piano is $60,000.00. So they make VERY high quality instruments. At the factory here in Fayetteville, they also make electronic keyboards and other ekectronic musical instruments. The factory is HUGE. Most people think Arkansas is full of nothing but hillbillies and moonshine stills, but some of the most high-tech equipment, computers, and electronics are designed and made here in Arkansas. Verizon Wireless is an Arkansas company. It was started here as All-Tel and developed into the largest wireless service/equipment provider in the world.
But I digress. So just look at any piano that you encounter and if it has the name "Baldwin" on it, just remember that it was beautifully crafted in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've seen Baldwin pianos in movies made in Europe. So their pianos are considered to be prestigious and of utmost quality.
@@CivilEngineerWroxton My parents purchased a Baldwin upright so my sister could take piano lessons back in the 70's, and while not the top of the line by any means, it was very well made and had great sound (and it was justifiably expensive because of the quality). At some point her piano teacher confronted my parents declaring that my sister had to decide between learning piano or playing on the girls softball team. She chose softball and the piano was sold. I always loved that piano and wish I had been old enough to learn how to play at the time.
Al Scarbrough My Baldwin Acrosonic console piano was made in 1973 and in beautiful condition. Those Acrosonic pianos were made for many years and highly popular with the public.
Al Scarbrough especially a concert grand
from somebody who goes to a public campus this makes me so sad. so many schools could have used resources they left behind like their books, computers, tables, and other tech. i know some of it might be outdated but there are so many communities which would really benefit from using them because they can’t afford to buy it. i know delivering it would have been an issue, but why not at least offer to donate it to an institute/nonprofit that could use it? it’s a shame to see all of that stuff rot and ultimately rot when it could still be used :(
Legally often they can't. if items were donated or paid for by grants, They cannot be used at other schools or given to another school without permission. It sounds odd but you actually can get into some major legal trouble for doing that!
Y’all should visit Appalachia High school in Appalachia Virginia. Our schools consolidated so the school in Appalachia is now abandoned except for the gym that the town uses! Love your videos!
Makes me sad that that place had so many memories for people and they can’t even go back to it and see it still being used
No funding to keep the school open, but hey! leave the power on and all the PC's etc behind! -_-
Those PCs are worth nothing in comparison, all stuff left behind has basically no value.
@@Max34557 Those computers are still worth about $50 to $100 each, they were worth more back when that school was closed. They could have easily sold them on an auction
@@Pasi123 yup, and trust me people would by those things, hell bring them to another school
@@Max34557 They could have distributed them to other schools that needs equip.
Those PC's don't have really good value, but certainly could be given away to other schools who may be in need of some.
Interesting,, but such a colossal waste of money & resources.
A big waste, but I bet kids and vandals turned some of the stuff on.
Only in America
This school is now a private prep school.
Not a colossal waste of anything.
@@MustBe1980 Detroit Collegiate Prep Academy
@@stanleyhape8427 Thats not the same school
13:15 The IT guy checking the logs and watching new loggins a couple of years later
Probably thinking "dang, kids will do anything in attempt to get onto Instagram and Tik Tok from the school computer"
This holds sooooo many of my families memories! 3 generations in my family graduated from here with multiple people in each generation.
Northwestern used to be a school where you could graduate with certificate in a career or your choice. It once was a trade/zone school. We had a daycare center, criminal justice program, cosmology, JROTC, photography and so much more.
Now we did have a lot of fights and street beefs boiling over into school, but it was still lit!
Our sports teams were lit 🔥
I graduated in 2008 and I’m not gonna lie the leadership pretty much let the school fall apart after that. Even though they are using the building as a transitional space for other schools while they rehad the other schools…it’s way too large of a building to be waisted.
We had the best times in that school.
This is so cool to hear. Like its crazy hearing stories from people who actually went here, even just given the odds of alumni even stumbling on this video in the first place. So cool
I think it's crazy, but also really cool when a school still has that kind of lighting control system in the auditorium.
Those have been obsolete since the 1980s, and don't compare to the new systems at all, but I find them really interesting.
Every time you go into a theatre at a school I get all excited because im a techi so when you screw around with old lights and stuff its cool.
Me too! I was trying to freeze frame on the patch panel. I think it was a single pin patch panel, of which Is very old.
Shaun Speers I can only imagine the power distribution for that, and how any of that was verified to be safe
I was one of those nerds who operated our lighting Consol. After that, all things tech became my domain. Lol
George King that’s me right now except I go extremely deep into the world of production
Why would people push over the piano... So unnecessary.
One word that explains it all: Americans
Stephen Thompson you literally didn’t have to turn this political dipshit nothing about this was political
Someone probably wanted to try destroying something that’s expensive
@Stephen Thompson why tf did you have to be the one to make it political?¿ it’s not political.. stop.. please..
@Stephen Thompson Couldn’t agree more. Thank you for speaking the truth. It’s quite obvious that a certain Party condone rioting, looting, the destruction of monuments and property, and the eradication of history; while the other Party seeks to conserve, study, protect, and learn from our history. It cannot be more obviously portrayed than through the past few months in certain cities run by said former Party.
When proper people and shiey somehow post on the same day
And what a great day it was, I was thrilled to see Shiey back at it, and then I got the notification for this as I was watching his.
That makes it a good day.
I wish they would do a collaboration!
Shiey !!
Was watching Track meet in late 70's when had Tornado Warning. They took us all into Schools Basement/Fall out Shelter. Didnt even know school had one until then...
Even as a deserted and abandon school, it’s still much nicer than my old high school 😂
great vid prop peeps!!
Nicer then my middle school
seeing the pianos broke my heart more than it already was
As a network engineer, I'm impressed that you guys noticed details about the switches and active ports in the building :)
Man I'd have totally taken one of those empty civil defense barrels lol
That's what I was thinking the whole time lol
25 dollars plus shipping, I took a bunch and I'll sell you one.
I would have opened one and looked inside and do the same with the crackers
We never knew how to get to the fallout shelter. We just knew that it was under the pool but they kept the pool locked up all the time.
@@ImSimplyAlwaysBored Seems kind of pointless to have a fallout shelter if the public doesn't know how to get to it. Even if those things could have saved you, you'd have to get to them very quickly.
My high school. Class of 2003. Great memories and sad memories there.
WTF they lock you in the gym area so you can't skip class? That doesn't even sound legal! 😂
They probably lock it to stop people getting in or if the sports hall is in use for a game they probably close off the rest of the school.
That's how High School works in America. Techinically they can force you to be in school by law so you're not allowed to skip. I'm glad I don't live in America anymore
christopher békési tell that to my attendance lol I skipped 411 classes my senior year I never seen metal bars to lock kids into a specific area at my school of 1500 kids
@@grantsdad177 Doesn't make what I said any less true kid.
This has to be the Bronx?
It's insane that this school is as nice as it is considering how old that it is... my HS was built in '92 and it's a just one step above a literal shit hole.
Nice high schools were built all over, throughout the 20th century. It depends on the location.
Schools built in the 1950's were built to double as community fallout shelters, which is a poorly kept secret. They're built out of heavy duty concrete. They don't built shit like that anymore. It's all lightweight wood truss and drywall because it's cheaper.
Steve1989MRE would have a party in that basement!!
I thought the same thing the second I saw those!
Came looking to see if anyone mentioned Steve and him somehow getting a hold of one of those barrels or tins.
Let's get this out onto a tray.... Nice!
@@hillbillyb4u "Wow, these canned peaches are a real treat. Just the right amount of natural sugar in that syrup and it doesn't taste artificial at all."
He would look at the date and would be slightly disappoited.
To new.
If it dind't made it at least through one world war, it is a bit to new.
I remember him eatin somethinlg from the bor war.
This building has so much history in it. Crazy.
Every hobo on an 1000 mile radius
*Y'A GOT ELECTRICITY DOW' THERE*
Lmao 😂
What a waste. The government wastes so much of this nation's resources its just sick.
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No doubt, but it doesnt help that budgets are set up so that if every penny isnt spent every single year, (no saving allowed), they are literally penalized by having the upcoming years budget slashed significantly. Certainly no private business operates like that.
it'd be worse if he s still in office after 012121.
Ree
This is a local problem. And surprise, surprise: This is Baltimore. Land of corrupt leftists who mismanage and waste 24/7.
@@MrCarGuy You're saying that like it doesn't happen literally anywhere regardless of political parties lol
Thank you Proper People, Bryan & Michael you guys keep it coming. Love the work.
Aweee thank you for the channel 👍. Just made my day. 😁💯✔
That auditorium is way better than my high school auditorium
Awe that sever room was singing my song. Those things must be a beast from hell to still be spooling at some 8,000+ rpms all those years. During it with no load on them like that is more work than with load. If I seen that I be aching to shut it off before it burns itself out.
Anyway this a great video.
As a long term fan and subscriber, the hype and chills the theme song gives is unreal. Keep it up my dudes!
24:49 Those specifically are Erlenmeyer Flasks.
Easy way to remember: typically beakers have straight sides and no neck, while a flask will have slanted/round sides and a neck.
This brings back so many great memories. This building was huge. Hate to see it abandoned. I remember when all of these rooms were active. Music room, ROTC, Stage Crew, Plays, Sports. C/O 2007!!! Northwestern Wildcats!! 🖖🏾🤙🏾
You all have gotta go back here...there’s so much to explore!
The gym looks so similar to my high school gym.
Most school gyms look pretty similar.
Jttv indeed
all of my schools were super small maybe except college, that had 3 floors but it wasn't super big either, this "school" in the video is like a legit mansion/castle compared to those
Tsunero maybe there you lived idk tho
Mine too
They could have turned that school into a shelter or something but it just went to waste