From a former DCPS high school teacher, this is maddening. The amount of things left in that school that could've been used elsewhere boggles me. Lots of unbroken science equipment, TWO baby grand pianos, all of the weightlifting equipment. The amount of waste is sad indeed. Nobody cared enough to take the championship banners down and put them in storage? How many high schools can claim not one but two NBA Hall of Famers? It's like the building is locked in time. Sad.
I finished high school in 2002. Half of the items in that school i've never seen before. All our classes were sit down and follow from a book. We never dissected anything or even looked through a microscope. Because of that I don't remember anything. That and I don't use anything that was taught.
for a school built in the 50s and closed due to financial reasons that school had insane facilities.....a cosmotology class? a JROTC class? a shooting range? a green house? a full theatre? my high school didnt even have a cafeteria and it was built in the mid 80s...
Back then all you needed was a high school diploma. A college degree was rare. Nowadays, it's up to your local government who chooses where the education funding goes and sometimes they're corrupt. It was never about the kids or else our funding would be increasing not declining 🤪
leajahlove that must be so sad to see the place you went to high school and made so many memories in look like this, I’m sure it’s also pretty amazing to see all this though.
Man, all that equipment left to rot? Knowing how many other schools are lacking it ought to be mandatory for a school system to donate all working equipment out of schools they shut down.
I agree completely. While some people in the US can’t even get books in their classrooms, the government wastes millions. This is what happens when everything is about the bottom line. When I look at this school, I think of the tax payer money wasted.
Yeah I thought it was really weird that a student left their notes on the desk and just didn't come back for them as if they didn't know the school was shutting down. It seems like one day all of a sudden it was abandoned and no one could go back for their things. The pianos and those microscopes are really expensive too.
@@Electragirl5 I live in the neighborhood where this school is. I moved in at the same year this school closed.. Yea, it actually just closed suddenly and very little warning. This was when the area was in the early stages of gentrification. It is now nearly fully gentrified and no sign in reopening this school. When this happened it pretty much was sudden.
I went to this school class of 94'. I breaks my heart to see what has happened. This school offered everything from home ec, print shop, wood shop, architecture, night school & even a day care for teen moms. School spirit was everything. DC dropped the ball, especially since so many others have been rebuilt
I'm sorry that this happened to your old school. I can imagine how it feels to see it in such disarray. It really looks like an amazing school with so much opportunity.
@Emmanuel Goldstein Yet the school close. I wonder if its due to government negligence especially since the school’s population was 100% African American.
They did a video a year or two ago of the hospital I was born in and visited several times before it was closed and subsequently torn down. That was a weird feeling. You get that "I've walked right where they're walking" vibe. Probably exactly the same for all their videos of high schools that former students see.
I am 65 and am hooked on these vBlogs. Stuff that is "way old" is still "new" in my mind. They are really a reality check about how fast are lives are and things that are new get old fast. (Including us) Thanks
Like, before it would take decades for technology to advance. But, I mean, at least we won’t have to wait as long for new advancements so life’s more exciting.
I agree. I'll be 58 this year and young people will say something is so old, and I'll think, it's not old, it was popular when I was in my 30's. It seemed like yesterday! My mother always said the older you get the faster time goes. Now that I'm pushing 60, I totally get that.
Ikr? Everything in it looks so old. I've never even seen science lab tables that look like that. And they still had chalk boards. My school switched to dry erase marker boards in the 90's.
I live in the DC metro politan area, and whoever lives around here knows that many of the schools are beyond outdated. Ive visited elementary and Middle schools that look like prisons from in and out. They may have some great things like an auditorium, green house, workout room, etc. but besides that, the whole building and soo many of the supplies used are from the early 80s i believe. This school is in Northeast DC, if you cross the river to South east... you’ll see schools that look like prison from the in and out.
That's an interesting idea, kennedy, but doesn't work in this situation. Man/woman (not pronouns) here is used to convey the idea of being an adult and can't be replaced by they/them.
Those pianos....it makes me sad to see them rotting away, out of tune and broken instruments are like nails on a chalkboard to me ... so many things in that school could have been auctioned/sold or given to charity, it seems wasteful ... (added) I know it's not easy when places close, but, in my home town several schools shut down...but, instead of letting them rot, everything was sold (what didnt went to shelters/charity) and the building was turned into low income apartments. My elementary school was turned into a community center that (the gym) could be rented out for parties. Options exist, it's sad when people give up.
I used to work for a school district part time, we would auction off a gymfull of old stuff the schools or teachers didn't want any more pretty much every summer. The money made didn't even come close to covering the hourly wages for the month it took to gather, organize, and bid the items. You could buy a stack of chairs, electronics, books, or pretty much anything a modern american school has for dollars. Even pianos occasionally, and not for much. Nobody wanted to deal with coming to pick them up and haul them away.
It's a shame, but people just don't want pianos any longer. You can find pianos offered for free on craigslist and other sights, and some even with offers to help move them out of the homes, but still no takers. Many people think that schools will take them if offered, but the schools don't want the added expense of upkeep for the instruments, and cost of disposal when they have out lived their usefulness! :(
The care you put in to each video really shines through on every one. Schools are one of my favorite locations you do, they always seem to be the ones that are the most frozen in time.
Imagine graduating from this school in 2013 and going back to it today. 7 years isn't even a long time and the state of decay of the building is insane.
16:02 This breaks my heart. The US education system is in dire need of repair and here you have the diligent chemistry notes of a student, left to disintegrate. I wonder where that student is now......why their notes were just left. I wonder if they succeeded in life.
You know everyone has those subjects that just doesn’t mean anything to the individual. Mine was English. Although I could read and spell very well, my writing was atrocious and I had to take a basic skills class upon entering college.
They did that because of gentrification and to make up lies of low enrollment. Low enrollment was due to their fault for sending kids out of their jurisdiction.
Jonah Hartley That’s not what he’s trying to say. The items that were left there leave the impression that all students left abruptly in the middle of a school day. It’s quite odd as to why this would happen and why no one would return to clean everything up.
@Paul Miller they're not if you have a license. Trump also loosened some of the requirements for it. I do feel a bit safer knowing that legal guns can get into more hands in this city. because the violence in certain parts of DC is insane.
It’s sad because if they cleaned up the high school it would be a really nice school today and not be left sitting there to rot. Also you guys should do a Q&A sometime.
Well you simply cant do that. Material decays and losses strenght so they would have to completely demolish it because repairing it would last long. Thats why it was abandoned in the first place lol
No it wouldn’t. A lot of schools in Dc got renovated and it’s still bad. The students is what make it bad not the school. A lot of Dc schools is in a low income neighborhood
I totally agree, and the way they go from exploring and then they transition into picture mode with some awesome gloomy music, is just really really good. Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every single time.
That's only because most other urbex channels are SOOOOO bad. Like the one with that little gay dude who won't shut up through his entire video and everything in the world he sees is for the first time? By comparison, this is the best one EVAR.
This was probably a state of the art school when it was first built. It has a lot of things you would see in scifi movies of the time it was built. Shame to see it fall so far.
It opened in 1952 as a segregated school for African American students, it was supposed to be new and modern, but I’m not sure “state of the art” could be applied to a segregated school in the 1950’s.
I had a buddy who went to that school back in 2008, I had went there for his graduation party it looked like a good school but it's sad to see look that bad 12 years later
It's crazy to think how much stuff was just left behind. I mean, you'd think other schools in district could use it, like some of the beakers and flasks in the science rooms... it's mind-boggling!
Like yeah! My school has to bend over backwards to buy glassware for its students and it is usually very serious when something gets broken . Meanwhile this perfectly good stuff is just wasting away
It also surprises me, Is this an American thing to just leave everything behind??. I mean those few abandoned places we have in Denmark, Are always stripped of everything.
@@thomasjensen2024 I think it happens all over the world but sometimes people/companies don't care anymore about all the stuff. Nobody works for free so they just don't have people who care about the place anymore.
It is MIND-BOGGLING and even more so how these guys or any of the others who so call "explore" abandon locations for a profit. Like hello, where are all the crazy people since every damn asylem is shut down? Yikes.
Mixed emotions. 30 years ago my old high school played against their football team. My dad and his twin brother, both deceased also graduated from Spingarn in 1964. Remember just a few years ago riding then to their 50yr class reunion.
A few family members of mine went to this high school. My great grandmother would talk about it whenever we drove by, it's kind of sad to see this is what ended up happening to it. But the DC school system is somewhat notorious for closing schools and letting them rot. It's really cool to have seen you guys in my area, though. I hope you guys come back. lol
Jack Johnson Regardless of that because they promised to open it in 2016 there is no excuse for it to sit there and rot and not for it to be useful. The way the city officials handled the situation and the way we were dismissed was totally unprofessional!!
@@MrBigsteve518 They don't "build" new public schools in DC. They just open new charter schools. Also there is no place to build a school in DC. Whats crazy is that space is at an all time premium in DC now and DC is FLUSH with cash but the mayor wont do anything for the public school system. This building is in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in DC and would probably be useful to the area if repurposed for something else. The city has the money to do whatever to this building but the mayor is to busy worrying about upper north west DC.
knowing that so many schools and places like this just are left frozen in time just rot away without people think that they can be put to use makes me sad to think that that could happen to my middle school and our nearby high school. i’m hoping that if it does close it goes to a good use and they can sell or donate the items in it
@@davidb1089 I bet some newer schools are built with asbestos intentionally so they can come up with a cheap excuse to waste the entire building by throwing it all away in the future. Environmental responsibility is political BS.
I found this channel yesterday and proceeded to binge dozens of videos. I like how authentic the experience is. They’re not overhyping things or click-baiting.. it feels like you’re right there with them.
My old junior school was built in the 1930s. Even as a young child I still remember the building and being in love with the architecture. Then it was demolished and they rebuilt a modern one. I mean what's the point. You are never going to get the chance for that architecture again.
I'm a dc native and grew up on GA Avenue not far from Spingarn....its so sad with how they left this school abandon....I know so many people who went to this school..just sad
@@stevenkelly9731 what was the purpose of trolling my post from 5 days ago to come back to it 6 minutes ago to critique what I said...I'm not confused at all..ya'll TH-cam gangastas kill me......I said what I said...my mother and aunts went to Cardoza so I'm aware of the proximity......the purpose of the post was to note I'm familiar with the school and it's within arms reach...keep it moving baby...please....
There’s full on microscopes .. and yet the college I go to now in 2020 only has about 20 for the entire campus .. literally who’s idea was it to leave those
And the glassware. An old teacher gifted me a bunch of lab glassware and I researched the value out of curiosity. Those beakers and flasks are expensive!
You guys should explore Lowell, MA, there are a ton of underground tunnels and abandoned mill buildings. The American Industrial Revolution got its start in Lowell (nicknamed Mill City) but after the mill bosses realized that labor was much cheaper in the south, they packed up and all of the buildings were abandoned. Some of them have been repurposed for the National Park and others for the University but there’s a ton of creepy old mills to explore. The locals sometimes compare it to Venice because most of the urban part of the city is built on canals that powered the mills.
I know y'all got burned out...it happens but damn I miss your videos when you're gone for too long. Y'all are my favorite exploration crew and beat out the rest by miles. Best narrations, the best videography, the most knowledgeable on the explores. With you we get a good solid 25 minute video. The rest of the pretenders claim 25 minutes with 10 minutes wasted driving to and entering a sight, maybe 10 minutes of site exploration, and 5 minutes of bullshit congratulating each other on what an excellent explore it was...crappy quality video and lighting and all. Hope you both do manage to continue on threw the burnout. Don't leave us to the piss poor excuses that are claiming awesome vids that are put up for nothing more than to pay for their world travel vacations.
@@JordanLedbetter When they did the video entitled "Exploring an Abandoned Movie Theater - Incredible Ornate Design!" They said that despite feeling burnt out at times with the nature of what they did, locations like that made the work (and travel, I have to assume) worthwhile. I'm glad that despite how draining this can be sometimes, they still strive to put out quality content for us when they can.
@@juancho420 Yep nothin but good quality here. Shiey was recommended to me by TH-cam recently, the dude just cusses and moans the entire time like its inconvenient to him.
agreed, there should a national loophole that if something is left abandoned then it's not theirs, because that's just the government being a bunch of absent squatters in the seat of power. and if they put Abandoned property in a do nothing but let it sit mode. then they pay through the nose to waste not just the time of students who need education but who waste the time of Waste management who would have a feild day here along with professional salvagers one day it may not be in this century, for when the worlds run out of mines, salvaging will be the only mining left, and these investments of material will be in decay and society will scramble to save and use these resources.
@@brianleeper5737 When one of my kids schools had an addition and new officers built, the contractor was going to rip out and bust up the book shelves in the bookroom and some cabinets from classrooms being renovated into the new part. It was cheaper to put in new ones in vs moving the ones already there is perfect condition. With permission from the School Principal and contractors we were able to go in during the weekend and take some home. Perfect adjustable garage cabinets and shelving.
Wtf I used to go to this school the last year it was open also on the last day. I used to explore when it closed but someone ran their mount n they welded the doors shut howd you guys find a way in? Oh and that shooting range was never used, the rifles we had had cement in the barrels, that room was captain shanks class. the other one was Sargent Tillman that's the class I was in. There used to be a boxing ring down in that weight room but I guess that was the only thing worth taking. but the class with the single desk that was the art class I forgot that teachers name but, she was thick af lol. I have funny memories from that school alot went down it was super lit. I remember A girl put her boobs on my face when I was leaning back n a chair I almost fell lol good times
no way lol, but all the papers and shit r still on the desk? why was it just abandoned one day without packing up? i heard cus of decline in student #'s but that doesnt seem right for the way it was left
@@jerbear938 Probably seems like it was a sudden decision. Maybe they expected to go back for the 2013-2014 year, but some higher ups said no over the summer.
@@adrianborinsky2989 Agreed I think its because they are familiar to most people. Industrial is my thing, but it is interesting to think how many peoples lives were shaped in these schools
I honestly love the music I love how you slowed the cameras down to show us the cafeteria and the closing of the drapes in the auditorium was fantastic... And the information during the video with that nice voice is also very nice
I honestly can't tell if that's a mannequin or if it's real, but given that the video hasn't had a rapid amount of dislikes/hasn't been taken down, it's probably a mannequin.
with proper funding this whole place could be renovated into something new, if not a new school, or like. a homeless shelter or something, but instead it'll probably just be left to rot :(
Meanwhile, the dc gov, city officials, and the mayor are allocating funds to install bike lanes, more speeding cameras primarily in parts of the city where a high number of african americans live, and building condos and other expensive housing to further gentrify my city.
Spectrophotometers are used to check the wave length relative to the intensity of light for organic compounds! They are REALLY expensive (well my colleges was) and we used it all the time in organic! Shame it’s just left there to rot when it could have been sold to make some money for the school back when it was open :(
It’s a shame these buildings can’t be restored and used for other things for them to just sit there and fall apart is a crying shame. Even if it was just a place for the homeless to stay in the cold weather would be better than just sitting there falling apart
it does really bug me that so many structures are just left to rot, you know that tax payers built so many of them and there our people out in the cold
JPD White me too I live in Georgetown and with the rent being so high here in DC. Why not turn them into micro studios that are like 300 ft.² and lower in rent. I have a lot of friends just out of college that cannot afford their own 500 square-foot studio.
WHHHHATTT Make a stance then. Start with the so called #properpeople adding funds from their profits exhibiting #abandonedschools or anywhere in America for that matter! xoxo
I know. My school was built like 25 years after this school and was a pretty middle class school with over 2000 students and we didn't have half the stuff this school has. All the equipment in those labs and stuff is crazy. I don't think our tables in the chemistry lab got used for any kind of experiments or demonstrations but once or twice a semester. Seems like they used to spare no expense for schools but now do it as cheaply as possible.
It's in surprisingly good shape, I hope it stays that way. I graduated in 2015, so it's a little weird to see a school that functioned up until my Sophomore year.
@Whitey Powers I thought the same. If they are large enough capacity, they would do the job. Make it comfortable anyway. A roof unit would be more efficient, though. I guess it doesn't matter now. :-)
Around the 4 mins mark we see one plugged in an outlet. I think they are 120V units so that would make them 12 000btu top. So 10 ton of cooling assuming they were all operating at peak performance. So I figure, 250$ per unit, another 250$ per outlet/circuit installed + 1500$ for a sub panel/breakers/main run. Then there's the labor for putting these in. I figure this install probably came out around 8000$. Considering you can get a 10 ton heat pump and it's air handler (which would still be undersized) for around 6500$, this install makes no sense to me! Let's not even talk about the efficiency of these window units...
This makes me really sad. This school looks like it had some amazing programs for students. I have never heard of a green house attached to a high school and I know very little that had such a wide range of class options we saw this school did (not many high schools have cosmetology). I have also never seen a school lunch room look that cool. Usually its just a bunch of tables crammed together with crappy stools attached. The fact that they such down what looked like a really good school for students sucks because there are so many others that don't have these things and offer students so much less.
I am stunned at the amount of things left behind in this school. I am also very much AMAZED at the amount of different things offered with the equipment all in one school. I WISH there were more schools like this for our babies. Wow this seems like a HUGE loss, so very sad.
This made me curious about my own high school. I left in 2007. It's still there lol. They got a Twitter account and a website now. Even the damn drama club has there own website! It's so weird looking at their twitter with photos of the different sports teams. It all looks so different... yet still the same. Memory lane.
Guys, have you ever received a message from someone who lived in an abandoned place that you visited? (and saw the video of you walking there, of course haha) I always think about that Amazing work as always!!
Omg, i forgot all about that. Yes, i would love to see that. Didn't the Redskins play there before they built FedEx field? Man, that feels like a lifetime ago.
I explored an abandoned school with my youth group because the youth leader knew the people who bought the property and honestly it was the coolest thing ever. Me and my best friend saw some red substance on the floor of the kitchen and the two other people we were with got scared because we got scared and we started running down the hallway and our youth leader jumped out of a doorway and scared the crap out of all of us. Good times.
My middle school's auditorium looked practically identical to theirs. Shows how dated my school must have been. There were stairs leading under the stage, we only ventured there once and found couches, a microwave, maybe students went there for costume changes and things of the sort in the past.
We use to have ropes in our gym but soon were taken down when the school got an upgrade. But that's was pretty creepy the talking, almost conversation, in the background while you guys where in the last science room before you headed into the basement. (16:38)
5:52 Wow I’ve never seen a greenhouse attached to a high school before either. That’s different. 9:47 I think you wouldn’t see ropes in high school gyms today because nobody can climb up it lol.
"Feels like a walk down memory lane", since I'm in europe, everything there looks just alien to me. If at all some stuff reminds me of movies or shows, but the schools I've been in looked totally different.
It amazes me how people can just lock the doors and walk away. I guess because not one person owns it, the govt. does so it's not like it belongs to anyone. Surely someone would've had the responsibility of dealing with what's left though. Very interesting and quite sad. Brilliant vid as always guys. Your soundtrack is spot on too. Love the eerie but also realistic and down to earth vibe you guys have in your vids. Bravo
if the government does this to the people's resources then it should be perfectly legal if not an obligation as a citizen to recycle these items. the amount of supplies here would save leagues of thousands on budgeting. left over notes should be conserved if not have the paper reused after photographic documentation. this school is a cultural heritage site for my fellow countrymen, instead of worrying about politics we depose of the current Corrupts and place a veteran of the field to administer the field. politician should be an extinct job. competition is unproductive enough when one thinks of only power and not service nor to solution also make unnatural destruction of abandoned property a crime since it's done for owned property too. make that come along with the pre-instilled obligation to salvage this gear left to rot if we won't revive the site and to never let a sacrifice be for nothing, the crappy crats don't give a Rat's Crapper what occurs here so they should stay out until the people call the government for assistance
More classic keyboards, that's cool! The black solid-surface epoxy resin tops in the labs came from my factory in North Carolina, Kewaunee Scientific Corporation. We're the only ones in the world that make shiny tops. The first ones you show, with the molded radius are from before about 2000. After that, we moved to beveled edges. The octogonal student tables are actually newer. The double-sided fume hood may have come from our metal casework plant, but it's hard to tell since it's been defaced. I'm not sure if the wood cabinets are ours. If they are, they are an older design. Nice find!
In my water plant lab we have all Kewaunee steel casework cabinets and a Supreme Air fume hood, and what seems like acres of black countertop, although ours is matte rather than shiny, unless it's rubbed down and buffed with mineral oil regularly. Good stuff though. In a harsh chlorine gas exposure environment there's barely any cabinet rusting. Stuff was installed when plant was built in 1999. Recently had to spray WD40 on some real tricky spots in the fume hood to lubricate the counterbalance pulleys all the way in the back. It was so stiff it took 2 people to pull the glass cover closed lol. Now it takes 2 fingers.
It's very likely you have mix and match. Our casework and our competitor's tops. It happens. We have shared some of the same sales groups. We have even sold each other's stuff directly. Right now we have a competitor who had a fire in their plant ans we are supplying some of their material to keep them in business. So we compete, but we are sometimes each other's customers. Anything to give the customers what they need and keep our investors happy.
I attended this high school and graduated from here. I attended Joel Elias Spingarn Senior high school from 2003 to 2006. Wow. It looks terrifying being abandoned.
From a former DCPS high school teacher, this is maddening. The amount of things left in that school that could've been used elsewhere boggles me. Lots of unbroken science equipment, TWO baby grand pianos, all of the weightlifting equipment. The amount of waste is sad indeed. Nobody cared enough to take the championship banners down and put them in storage? How many high schools can claim not one but two NBA Hall of Famers? It's like the building is locked in time. Sad.
I finished high school in 2002. Half of the items in that school i've never seen before. All our classes were sit down and follow from a book. We never dissected anything or even looked through a microscope. Because of that I don't remember anything. That and I don't use anything that was taught.
Very Sad.
Daniel Walker true grad in 2016 and we never used hardly any of that
Storage?
@Ukulele Lars, Don't be racist
for a school built in the 50s and closed due to financial reasons that school had insane facilities.....a cosmotology class? a JROTC class? a shooting range? a green house? a full theatre? my high school didnt even have a cafeteria and it was built in the mid 80s...
Goes to show how underfunded our education system really is.
i don’t know how a building in Washington DC has financial problems.
Back then all you needed was a high school diploma. A college degree was rare. Nowadays, it's up to your local government who chooses where the education funding goes and sometimes they're corrupt. It was never about the kids or else our funding would be increasing not declining 🤪
What’s jrotc?
Ms. Kitty Cat “Junior Reserve Officer Training Core” I think
So much respect to them for not putting “body found” “got arrested” “haunted” in the title
The fact that it’s abandoned should attract enough people already.
this is probably the only urban exploration channel i can tolerate lol
DUST FOUND
Pretty much why this is the only exploration channel I can stand watching.
I don’t think it was a real body
I graduated from Spingarn in 1991...This breaks my heart. Spingarn at one point was one of the best public High School in D.C. Good memories
leajahlove that must be so sad to see the place you went to high school and made so many memories in look like this, I’m sure it’s also pretty amazing to see all this though.
@benjamin ramsey because michael stevenson seems pretty stupid!
hey that is pretty cool but devestating. I'm intrigued about this so if it's ok with you, mind telling me more about it
It was always the best public school but for blacks and that's why they got defunded
@@treasurcanada5953no it wasn’t lol it was one of the worst high schools. That school is like going to Anacostia and Ballou
The fact that this school was closed 7 years ago is sad. The pianos and exercise equipment could've been donated or something.
I wanna go pick up the piano and have refurbished.
Candis on god lol
What a shameful waste. Shame on whoever is responsible for that.
They thought that the school could be maybe reopened later so they didn't bother.
me, as a pianist, am heartbroken. specially since it was a Kawai
Man, all that equipment left to rot? Knowing how many other schools are lacking it ought to be mandatory for a school system to donate all working equipment out of schools they shut down.
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Well that would just be pragmatic.. and we are talking about the school system remember..
Don`t you understand there is no money to be made doing that, and money is all most people care about!!!!
the gov't leaves it there 'cause it's "cheaper" to get new #idiots
I agree completely. While some people in the US can’t even get books in their classrooms, the government wastes millions. This is what happens when everything is about the bottom line. When I look at this school, I think of the tax payer money wasted.
So weird its just like class got over one day and everyone up and left
Jordan Garza ???
@@Usycjsga17 really u think so just for the video..so much effort for just a video
Jordan Garza That’s some big conspiracy you got going there
Yeah I thought it was really weird that a student left their notes on the desk and just didn't come back for them as if they didn't know the school was shutting down. It seems like one day all of a sudden it was abandoned and no one could go back for their things. The pianos and those microscopes are really expensive too.
@@Electragirl5 I live in the neighborhood where this school is. I moved in at the same year this school closed.. Yea, it actually just closed suddenly and very little warning. This was when the area was in the early stages of gentrification. It is now nearly fully gentrified and no sign in reopening this school. When this happened it pretty much was sudden.
My schools broke af and can barely afford any new science equipment and here’s some brand new beakers sitting there. It is wasteful.
Totally agree. I'd go there just to grab those beakers and vials. That stuff can be expensive
DC is known for it's waste.
If they are good guys they will use this video proceeds for YOUR SCHOOL
Lmao why would they even give their proceeds ?!
Those are Flasks. Erlenmeyer Flasks. I guess you really don't have any in your school. I concur. It is a waste.
I went to this school class of 94'. I breaks my heart to see what has happened. This school offered everything from home ec, print shop, wood shop, architecture, night school & even a day care for teen moms. School spirit was everything. DC dropped the ball, especially since so many others have been rebuilt
You did, I am Dennis and I went there in '94 too.
Damn, seems nice.
It must be so weird seeing your old school like this. I can’t imagine
I'm sorry that this happened to your old school. I can imagine how it feels to see it in such disarray. It really looks like an amazing school with so much opportunity.
@Emmanuel Goldstein Yet the school close. I wonder if its due to government negligence especially since the school’s population was 100% African American.
Imagine the surreal feeling of someone who attended this school watching this video
Nox Eternis at least two (an alumni and a teacher) so far in my reading of the comments.
They did a video a year or two ago of the hospital I was born in and visited several times before it was closed and subsequently torn down. That was a weird feeling. You get that "I've walked right where they're walking" vibe. Probably exactly the same for all their videos of high schools that former students see.
My mom went to Spingarn in the 90s but left to another high school I showed her the video and she didnt even know the school went vacant
I graduated from Spingarn in 1990. Watching this vid brings back so many memories.
@@MarkMontue I'm from Benning Rd and went to Spingarn from 82-85 also attended Phelps, good memories champ✌🏽
My grandparents both went to this school. They both have since passed away so it was honestly heartwarming to watch this.
Kenya Dodson I’m sorry to hear that .
Kenya Dodson ❤️
I'm sorry to hear that but that must have been amazing to watch this video then
Same my Grandfather went here
My mom graduated from here in 1954
I am 65 and am hooked on these vBlogs. Stuff that is "way old" is still "new" in my mind. They are really a reality check about how fast are lives are and things that are new get old fast. (Including us) Thanks
It’s truly insane technology is advancing so fast
Like, before it would take decades for technology to advance. But, I mean, at least we won’t have to wait as long for new advancements so life’s more exciting.
love this comment! real, and deep thinking!
I agree. I'll be 58 this year and young people will say something is so old, and I'll think, it's not old, it was popular when I was in my 30's. It seemed like yesterday! My mother always said the older you get the faster time goes. Now that I'm pushing 60, I totally get that.
Very well said, I feel pretty much the same!
still shots of the cafeteria gives me chills. to think that at one point it was buzzing with energetic teens
Patricia Murphy it definitely was a terrible school with terrible kids !
@@dollfacemiyy how did you come to that conclusion?
slimeyy miy Dude wtf
@@dollfacemiyy the hell does this mean
Yeah buncha junkies like every school lmao
The school closed in 2013... Why does this look like its been abandoned since the 70s
Yeah it gives off Chernobyl vibes. Like everyone just stopped what they were doing and left.
They just said fuck it and left it , they should have emptied it first
Ikr? Everything in it looks so old. I've never even seen science lab tables that look like that. And they still had chalk boards. My school switched to dry erase marker boards in the 90's.
@@ville666sora And they left it all to be ransacked and stolen , what a waste of money
I live in the DC metro politan area, and whoever lives around here knows that many of the schools are beyond outdated. Ive visited elementary and Middle schools that look like prisons from in and out. They may have some great things like an auditorium, green house, workout room, etc. but besides that, the whole building and soo many of the supplies used are from the early 80s i believe. This school is in Northeast DC, if you cross the river to South east... you’ll see schools that look like prison from the in and out.
16:01 Shout out to the kid now man/woman who took these notes. Helped me past my test.
lets use they/them pronouns for our nonbinary pals hehe
That's an interesting idea, kennedy, but doesn't work in this situation. Man/woman (not pronouns) here is used to convey the idea of being an adult and can't be replaced by they/them.
@@userPrehistoricman adult
*pass my test.
I think a retest is in order.
@@userPrehistoricman they could've just said adult then if I am being honest but ye
My Father went to this High School in and graduated in 1961. He has been dead for a while and was I think the only white guy in his graduating class.
Ironic last name given the comment
Wats good bruh lls
What are the odds
Imagine being white and going to a 99% black school, it must of really sucked for your daddy.
And thus, no one took your race bait..
Those pianos....it makes me sad to see them rotting away, out of tune and broken instruments are like nails on a chalkboard to me ... so many things in that school could have been auctioned/sold or given to charity, it seems wasteful
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(added) I know it's not easy when places close, but, in my home town several schools shut down...but, instead of letting them rot, everything was sold (what didnt went to shelters/charity) and the building was turned into low income apartments. My elementary school was turned into a community center that (the gym) could be rented out for parties. Options exist, it's sad when people give up.
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@@thickgirlsneedlove2190 those smilies gave me cancer
I used to work for a school district part time, we would auction off a gymfull of old stuff the schools or teachers didn't want any more pretty much every summer. The money made didn't even come close to covering the hourly wages for the month it took to gather, organize, and bid the items. You could buy a stack of chairs, electronics, books, or pretty much anything a modern american school has for dollars. Even pianos occasionally, and not for much. Nobody wanted to deal with coming to pick them up and haul them away.
You should ask to speak with the manager. You've got the haircut for it.
It's a shame, but people just don't want pianos any longer. You can find pianos offered for free on craigslist and other sights, and some even with offers to help move them out of the homes, but still no takers. Many people think that schools will take them if offered, but the schools don't want the added expense of upkeep for the instruments, and cost of disposal when they have out lived their usefulness! :(
Whenever I watch these videos, I imagine the past, busy hallways, talking students it all comes in my mind
This made me sad. As an attendee of a different DC high school, I can't imagine how Spingarn alumni feel after seeing this.
What school?
Yes I can relate
@@claspedcolt9438 Coolidge
@@teajaydc4484 Wilson
That would be a trip if someone watching this recognized those notes as theirs.
My high school. This breaks my heart.
See ya in 10 years when this is in everyone’s recommended again
(Edit: damm, 1.2k likes)
Bold of you to assume that TH-cam will even exist at that point
What12311 i mean youtube has been going strong for 15 years already, another 10 doesn’t seem that unlikely.
Screw recommended. I came here through Proper People's channel because they're an amazing channel.
The beginning of the 2030s!
cody kamminga catch ya there
The care you put in to each video really shines through on every one. Schools are one of my favorite locations you do, they always seem to be the ones that are the most frozen in time.
Absolutely, I've seen TV documentaries that aren't to this standard.
I’m always amazed by how there’s never someone somehow living in these places, giving how many homeless people are there in the world.
Check out their New Orleans abandoned prison episode. They come across a couple homeless living in there. They are very respectful though, as always.
Imagine graduating from this school in 2013 and going back to it today. 7 years isn't even a long time and the state of decay of the building is insane.
16:02 This breaks my heart. The US education system is in dire need of repair and here you have the diligent chemistry notes of a student, left to disintegrate. I wonder where that student is now......why their notes were just left. I wonder if they succeeded in life.
Brian Streufert indeed! When these notes were made, I was only 7 years old... crazy if you think about it.
You know everyone has those subjects
that just doesn’t mean anything to the individual. Mine was English. Although I could read and spell very well, my writing was atrocious and I had to take a basic skills class upon entering college.
@veevyo it's me
It’s kinda sad to think about how who and where that person is it makes me wanna cry honestly😅
This school is 5 minutes from my house, in the 2013/2014 school year they sent a lot of Spingarn students to my high school (HD Woodson)
They did that because of gentrification and to make up lies of low enrollment. Low enrollment was due to their fault for sending kids out of their jurisdiction.
@@carolewest4807
Why did it close
how does something get abandoned like this? Why does it look like everyone left abruptly
No money to fund the schools and no students going so its a waste of money
Jonah Hartley
That’s not what he’s trying to say. The items that were left there leave the impression that all students left abruptly in the middle of a school day. It’s quite odd as to why this would happen and why no one would return to clean everything up.
Jonah Hartley also the notes on the desk ..
Woah it's pretty eerie
he just explained why in the beginning
I know people make jokes of how schools are shooting ranges but this school had a literal shooting range god dam
I doubt they used real guns. What they use for rotc classes nowadays is pellet rifles.
My high school had one for jrotc, I'm pretty sure it was just pellet guns but can't remember. That was back in like 2002 though, also it was Texas lol
Even my high school in Canada had a gun range. People just weren't as mentally ill back then I guess?
Many modern high schools still have shooting ranges for fake guns. My brothers were in JROTC and had to use the shooting ranges.
@Paul Miller they're not if you have a license. Trump also loosened some of the requirements for it. I do feel a bit safer knowing that legal guns can get into more hands in this city. because the violence in certain parts of DC is insane.
16:06 Hey im studying empirical and molecular formulas in Chemistry rn lol. thanks for the notes person from 10 years ago!
It’s sad because if they cleaned up the high school it would be a really nice school today and not be left sitting there to rot. Also you guys should do a Q&A sometime.
Well you simply cant do that. Material decays and losses strenght so they would have to completely demolish it because repairing it would last long. Thats why it was abandoned in the first place lol
@@aldairvanegas4470they can’t demolish the school bc it’s a historical site
No it wouldn’t. A lot of schools in Dc got renovated and it’s still bad. The students is what make it bad not the school. A lot of Dc schools is in a low income neighborhood
Hands down, the best urbex TH-cam channel in existence. I get all tingly when that theme song starts. Thanks, guys.
I totally agree, and the way they go from exploring and then they transition into picture mode with some awesome gloomy music, is just really really good.
Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every single time.
That's only because most other urbex channels are SOOOOO bad. Like the one with that little gay dude who won't shut up through his entire video and everything in the world he sees is for the first time? By comparison, this is the best one EVAR.
I would love to buy that full musical theme track if they have it like that but i never got a reply.
Totally agree no fake things, clickbait and drama.
@@Alturvexs I have seen multiple TPP video's where they actually linked to the music creator.
The mall one for example.
That curtain draw transition was straight wild, my guys.
This was probably a state of the art school when it was first built. It has a lot of things you would see in scifi movies of the time it was built. Shame to see it fall so far.
It opened in 1952 as a segregated school for African American students, it was supposed to be new and modern, but I’m not sure “state of the art” could be applied to a segregated school in the 1950’s.
@@OwenBudd1 it has a lot of cool stuff though
I had a buddy who went to that school back in 2008, I had went there for his graduation party it looked like a good school but it's sad to see look that bad 12 years later
It's crazy to think how much stuff was just left behind. I mean, you'd think other schools in district could use it, like some of the beakers and flasks in the science rooms... it's mind-boggling!
Like yeah! My school has to bend over backwards to buy glassware for its students and it is usually very serious when something gets broken . Meanwhile this perfectly good stuff is just wasting away
It also surprises me, Is this an American thing to just leave everything behind??. I mean those few abandoned places we have in Denmark, Are always stripped of everything.
No.
Apparently it's 1 of 15 schools that were closed down in the same area so some things were bound to be overlooked.
@@thomasjensen2024 I think it happens all over the world but sometimes people/companies don't care anymore about all the stuff. Nobody works for free so they just don't have people who care about the place anymore.
It is MIND-BOGGLING and even more so how these guys or any of the others who so call "explore" abandon locations for a profit. Like hello, where are all the crazy people since every damn asylem is shut down? Yikes.
Mixed emotions. 30 years ago my old high school played against their football team. My dad and his twin brother, both deceased also graduated from Spingarn in 1964. Remember just a few years ago riding then to their 50yr class reunion.
Class of 1990!! Green waves for life. Brought back some good memories
A few family members of mine went to this high school. My great grandmother would talk about it whenever we drove by, it's kind of sad to see this is what ended up happening to it. But the DC school system is somewhat notorious for closing schools and letting them rot.
It's really cool to have seen you guys in my area, though. I hope you guys come back. lol
Imagine this being just your school and you go back and recall the memories...
Sad to see it in such a bad state.
My Alma Mater 😔
This makes me so sad... The memories I have of this place.
JohnnyBooze
Your user ID suggests you won’t remember much. Lol
The school could've easily renovated, kickbacks prevented that....
That was the promise and they lied.
It was closed because there was next to no enrollment
Jack Johnson Regardless of that because they promised to open it in 2016 there is no excuse for it to sit there and rot and not for it to be useful.
The way the city officials handled the situation and the way we were dismissed was totally unprofessional!!
@@MrBigsteve518 I guess you can thank the Devos family for that.
@@MrBigsteve518 They don't "build" new public schools in DC. They just open new charter schools. Also there is no place to build a school in DC. Whats crazy is that space is at an all time premium in DC now and DC is FLUSH with cash but the mayor wont do anything for the public school system. This building is in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in DC and would probably be useful to the area if repurposed for something else. The city has the money to do whatever to this building but the mayor is to busy worrying about upper north west DC.
“Looks pretty dated in here”. Looks exactly like my high schools auditorium
mikey_the_ great same
My high school didn’t even have a proper auditorium like that. That thing is huge. That whole school is going to waste.
knowing that so many schools and places like this just are left frozen in time just rot away without people think that they can be put to use makes me sad to think that that could happen to my middle school and our nearby high school. i’m hoping that if it does close it goes to a good use and they can sell or donate the items in it
Maybe an environmental issue like asbestos as someone else stated
@@davidb1089 I bet some newer schools are built with asbestos intentionally so they can come up with a cheap excuse to waste the entire building by throwing it all away in the future. Environmental responsibility is political BS.
I found this channel yesterday and proceeded to binge dozens of videos. I like how authentic the experience is. They’re not overhyping things or click-baiting.. it feels like you’re right there with them.
My old junior school was built in the 1930s. Even as a young child I still remember the building and being in love with the architecture. Then it was demolished and they rebuilt a modern one. I mean what's the point. You are never going to get the chance for that architecture again.
My high school was built in 1960. It's still kicking. They've updated it but it still has that cinder block bomb shelter asthetic.
I'm a dc native and grew up on GA Avenue not far from Spingarn....its so sad with how they left this school abandon....I know so many people who went to this school..just sad
Don't worry ...the damn millinal transplants will convert that to a damn $1,000,000 unaffordable 600 square ft condos. Look at Kennedy st NW...sad.
@@stevenkelly9731 DMV girl here. Sad but true.
My mother went there 21st and H st. Langston.
Wait😁😂...did you say you grew up on Georgia Ave NW and its not far from Spingarn??. Nope you confusing it with Cardozo or further uptown Coolidge.
@@stevenkelly9731 what was the purpose of trolling my post from 5 days ago to come back to it 6 minutes ago to critique what I said...I'm not confused at all..ya'll TH-cam gangastas kill me......I said what I said...my mother and aunts went to Cardoza so I'm aware of the proximity......the purpose of the post was to note I'm familiar with the school and it's within arms reach...keep it moving baby...please....
C/O of 1994
This is so heartbreaking. I have some of the best high school memories here!
There’s full on microscopes .. and yet the college I go to now in 2020 only has about 20 for the entire campus .. literally who’s idea was it to leave those
And the glassware. An old teacher gifted me a bunch of lab glassware and I researched the value out of curiosity. Those beakers and flasks are expensive!
You guys should explore Lowell, MA, there are a ton of underground tunnels and abandoned mill buildings. The American Industrial Revolution got its start in Lowell (nicknamed Mill City) but after the mill bosses realized that labor was much cheaper in the south, they packed up and all of the buildings were abandoned. Some of them have been repurposed for the National Park and others for the University but there’s a ton of creepy old mills to explore. The locals sometimes compare it to Venice because most of the urban part of the city is built on canals that powered the mills.
I would have been OUT OF THERE the second I saw the noose.
It scared the shit out of me
Time stamp?
End Zone Highlights
8:00 my dude.
@Paul Miller you'd probably lose that bet too
Doggo Luz u dot see it
I know y'all got burned out...it happens but damn I miss your videos when you're gone for too long. Y'all are my favorite exploration crew and beat out the rest by miles. Best narrations, the best videography, the most knowledgeable on the explores. With you we get a good solid 25 minute video. The rest of the pretenders claim 25 minutes with 10 minutes wasted driving to and entering a sight, maybe 10 minutes of site exploration, and 5 minutes of bullshit congratulating each other on what an excellent explore it was...crappy quality video and lighting and all. Hope you both do manage to continue on threw the burnout. Don't leave us to the piss poor excuses that are claiming awesome vids that are put up for nothing more than to pay for their world travel vacations.
Where did they say they got burned out?
@@JordanLedbetter When they did the video entitled "Exploring an Abandoned Movie Theater - Incredible Ornate Design!" They said that despite feeling burnt out at times with the nature of what they did, locations like that made the work (and travel, I have to assume) worthwhile. I'm glad that despite how draining this can be sometimes, they still strive to put out quality content for us when they can.
That’s why I’m a Patreon supporter. Just good urbex and no bs like so many others.
@@juancho420 Yep nothin but good quality here.
Shiey was recommended to me by TH-cam recently, the dude just cusses and moans the entire time like its inconvenient to him.
We agree!! These guys are the real deal and nobody does it better. They have always stayed true to their style of exploring!
The waste is sickening, from all the items left behind to the building itself.
It's DC, fraud waste and abuse are how things are done.
agreed, there should a national loophole that if something is left abandoned then it's not theirs, because that's just the government being a bunch of absent squatters in the seat of power. and if they put Abandoned property in a do nothing but let it sit mode. then they pay through the nose to waste not just the time of students who need education but who waste the time of Waste management who would have a feild day here along with professional salvagers
one day it may not be in this century, for when the worlds run out of mines, salvaging will be the only mining left, and these investments of material will be in decay and society will scramble to save and use these resources.
@@brianleeper5737 EXACTLY.
@@brianleeper5737 When one of my kids schools had an addition and new officers built, the contractor was going to rip out and bust up the book shelves in the bookroom and some cabinets from classrooms being renovated into the new part. It was cheaper to put in new ones in vs moving the ones already there is perfect condition. With permission from the School Principal and contractors we were able to go in during the weekend and take some home. Perfect adjustable garage cabinets and shelving.
@@MrWc867 I bet there was a local government office that could have used that stuff and would've taken it.
I wonder how the old students, teachers and other staff members feel about this amount of waste and vandalism.
Wtf I used to go to this school the last year it was open also on the last day. I used to explore when it closed but someone ran their mount n they welded the doors shut howd you guys find a way in?
Oh and that shooting range was never used, the rifles we had had cement in the barrels, that room was captain shanks class. the other one was Sargent Tillman that's the class I was in. There used to be a boxing ring down in that weight room but I guess that was the only thing worth taking. but the class with the single desk that was the art class I forgot that teachers name but, she was thick af lol. I have funny memories from that school alot went down it was super lit. I remember A girl put her boobs on my face when I was leaning back n a chair I almost fell lol good times
no way lol,
but all the papers and shit r still on the desk? why was it just abandoned one day without packing up? i heard cus of decline in student #'s but that doesnt seem right for the way it was left
@@jerbear938 Probably seems like it was a sudden decision. Maybe they expected to go back for the 2013-2014 year, but some higher ups said no over the summer.
😂🔥 crazy I went to Coolidge didn’t kno this happened to Spingarn
@Joe Biden BuildBack Da Kamerade
I like how you made sure to mention that the art teacher was thick af.
abandoned schools are some of my favourite explorations, excited as always :')
How is your comment 18 hours old?!?
Vortex patreon, we get to see videos a day early :>
Personally, it's my least favorites, I prefer hospitals, power plants, etc, I don't know why but abandoned high schools feel so boring to me
@@adrianborinsky2989 Agreed I think its because they are familiar to most people. Industrial is my thing, but it is interesting to think how many peoples lives were shaped in these schools
Maigistr nice
I honestly love the music I love how you slowed the cameras down to show us the cafeteria and the closing of the drapes in the auditorium was fantastic... And the information during the video with that nice voice is also very nice
9:11 I don’t recall clicking on a Logan Paul video
Just waited for someone to point that out...
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Bruuuh
I honestly can't tell if that's a mannequin or if it's real, but given that the video hasn't had a rapid amount of dislikes/hasn't been taken down, it's probably a mannequin.
And the fact that there's a lynched manikin in an all-black school....
with proper funding this whole place could be renovated into something new, if not a new school, or like. a homeless shelter or something, but instead it'll probably just be left to rot :(
Until the cost of land in DC goes up enough to make the renovation worth it #capitalism
Meanwhile, the dc gov, city officials, and the mayor are allocating funds to install bike lanes, more speeding cameras primarily in parts of the city where a high number of african americans live, and building condos and other expensive housing to further gentrify my city.
That's the LAST thing the DC dino politicians would do.
That’s what our schools are going to look like when we come back from quarantine :/
At least in Ohio, janitors/custodians are still at school, maintaining it for you.
Spectrophotometers are used to check the wave length relative to the intensity of light for organic compounds! They are REALLY expensive (well my colleges was) and we used it all the time in organic! Shame it’s just left there to rot when it could have been sold to make some money for the school back when it was open :(
It’s a shame these buildings can’t be restored and used for other things for them to just sit there and fall apart is a crying shame. Even if it was just a place for the homeless to stay in the cold weather would be better than just sitting there falling apart
it does really bug me that so many structures are just left to rot, you know that tax payers built so many of them and there our people out in the cold
Kinda reminds me of cities and buildings that were built with no intention of anyone living in or using them.
JPD White me too I live in Georgetown and with the rent being so high here in DC. Why not turn them into micro studios that are like 300 ft.² and lower in rent. I have a lot of friends just out of college that cannot afford their own 500 square-foot studio.
Liability reasons. Corporate property owners don't have any interest in the greater good, only selling and profit.
A- MAN Politics, money, greed, and stupidity
Belive me...the neighborhood is totally gentrified. This will be new condos soon.
damn. glad you guys are still posting. not to mention no clickbaity crap in the titles. stay safe during the quarantine
Breaks my heart to see that beautiful baby grand piano in the class abandonned.
A good chunk of this school looks like it's in better shape and more modern than the school I went to.
WHHHHATTT Make a stance then. Start with the so called #properpeople adding funds from their profits exhibiting #abandonedschools or anywhere in America for that matter! xoxo
Please stop naming locations. That's how they get destroyed and locked up.
I know. My school was built like 25 years after this school and was a pretty middle class school with over 2000 students and we didn't have half the stuff this school has. All the equipment in those labs and stuff is crazy. I don't think our tables in the chemistry lab got used for any kind of experiments or demonstrations but once or twice a semester. Seems like they used to spare no expense for schools but now do it as cheaply as possible.
Robyn Meadows Hodgson nobody knows where this guy goes to school, you're fine.
This school literally looks nicer than the school I go to right now
Bryan has mad reading while driving skills. Thanks for the Valentine’s Day gift of a new vid, boys!
what an absolute madlad
gotta give props for the nice quattro though
It's in surprisingly good shape, I hope it stays that way. I graduated in 2015, so it's a little weird to see a school that functioned up until my Sophomore year.
DUDE that intro music gets me every time. I just love IT
Crazy how someone thought installing TEN window AC units in this gym was a better idea than installing a roof unit.
good one😂
I Agree. Even the biggest window units could never cover that many sq feet
@Whitey Powers I thought the same. If they are large enough capacity, they would do the job. Make it comfortable anyway. A roof unit would be more efficient, though. I guess it doesn't matter now. :-)
I thought the same thing when I saw that. They seem to be in random rooms as well.
Around the 4 mins mark we see one plugged in an outlet. I think they are 120V units so that would make them 12 000btu top. So 10 ton of cooling assuming they were all operating at peak performance. So I figure, 250$ per unit, another 250$ per outlet/circuit installed + 1500$ for a sub panel/breakers/main run. Then there's the labor for putting these in. I figure this install probably came out around 8000$. Considering you can get a 10 ton heat pump and it's air handler (which would still be undersized) for around 6500$, this install makes no sense to me! Let's not even talk about the efficiency of these window units...
When TPP upload a new video instantly makes my day 100x better!
I don’t think I’ve ever skipped y’all’s intro. The music and the editing is just spot on. Nice job guys 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
why does this break my heart like this big, beautiful school had a lot of potential and now it’s abandoned :(
I can imagine this would have been a really nice school with all those facilities
I miss going to this school omg I can’t believe it’s been 9 long years I haven’t been in that building...
I remember hearing of its closure when I lived in DC between 2012-2016. Lots of great sites to explore there.
love the music in combination with the slow cameramovements. Good eye for the scenes!
This makes me really sad. This school looks like it had some amazing programs for students. I have never heard of a green house attached to a high school and I know very little that had such a wide range of class options we saw this school did (not many high schools have cosmetology). I have also never seen a school lunch room look that cool. Usually its just a bunch of tables crammed together with crappy stools attached. The fact that they such down what looked like a really good school for students sucks because there are so many others that don't have these things and offer students so much less.
Dude that piano playing sounded like something out of a scary movie (3:13)
Absolutely love the slider shots, they really capture the atmosphere of this place!
I would love a behind the scenes short on how they use their slider for these shots. I've been interested for quite a while watching this channel.
@@RobertMorgan Oh yeah, would also love to see that. Or just a behind the scenes in general would be quite interesting to see.
Fascinating, beautiful, scary, nostalgic and sad all at the same time.
I remember the days balling in that school gym court I use to hit threes from everywhere I got blood and sweat all on that gym floor😭😭
3s??😶
cartgamerYT carter 👍
Sure
I am stunned at the amount of things left behind in this school. I am also very much AMAZED at the amount of different things offered with the equipment all in one school. I WISH there were more schools like this for our babies. Wow this seems like a HUGE loss, so very sad.
This made me curious about my own high school. I left in 2007. It's still there lol. They got a Twitter account and a website now. Even the damn drama club has there own website! It's so weird looking at their twitter with photos of the different sports teams. It all looks so different... yet still the same. Memory lane.
Guys, have you ever received a message from someone who lived in an abandoned place that you visited? (and saw the video of you walking there, of course haha) I always think about that
Amazing work as always!!
If they gave a shit you'd seethe $ form their videos in YOUR home town
Same! I always wonder when I'll be that person seeing guys like this walk through my old home
You guys should explore RFK stadium before it gets demolished, it's down the street from Spingarn.
Omg, i forgot all about that. Yes, i would love to see that. Didn't the Redskins play there before they built FedEx field? Man, that feels like a lifetime ago.
😲No you didn't ask that question Ms. Gardner!!!
@@andreagardner6639 Yes they did.
@@andreagardner6639 Yes, they did.
@@a.grayson1183 They are supposed to play a high school football tripleheader there this year, but after that who knows?
I swear I get stoked when I see a new vid from you guys!! Love getting to explore via ya’lls camera lens. Thank you and keep up the fantastic work!
I explored an abandoned school with my youth group because the youth leader knew the people who bought the property and honestly it was the coolest thing ever. Me and my best friend saw some red substance on the floor of the kitchen and the two other people we were with got scared because we got scared and we started running down the hallway and our youth leader jumped out of a doorway and scared the crap out of all of us. Good times.
My middle school's auditorium looked practically identical to theirs. Shows how dated my school must have been. There were stairs leading under the stage, we only ventured there once and found couches, a microwave, maybe students went there for costume changes and things of the sort in the past.
Lani B my middle school had the exact same one as well. that school was falling apart and is still somehow in operation.
My high school auditorium doesn’t even look that nice 😂
We use to have ropes in our gym but soon were taken down when the school got an upgrade. But that's was pretty creepy the talking, almost conversation, in the background while you guys where in the last science room before you headed into the basement. (16:38)
imagine turning that whole school into a giant paintball arena or something
5:52 Wow I’ve never seen a greenhouse attached to a high school before either. That’s different.
9:47 I think you wouldn’t see ropes in high school gyms today because nobody can climb up it lol.
I guess it is common around here. I graduated from a little h.s I. Maryland and we had a greenhouse.
"Feels like a walk down memory lane", since I'm in europe, everything there looks just alien to me. If at all some stuff reminds me of movies or shows, but the schools I've been in looked totally different.
I didnt realize it was closed in 2013. I thought it was like 2005 or 2006, then Phineas and Ferb fan art showed up...
Taking my Valentines Day to another level by relaxing with The Proper People!
It amazes me how people can just lock the doors and walk away. I guess because not one person owns it, the govt. does so it's not like it belongs to anyone. Surely someone would've had the responsibility of dealing with what's left though. Very interesting and quite sad.
Brilliant vid as always guys. Your soundtrack is spot on too. Love the eerie but also realistic and down to earth vibe you guys have in your vids. Bravo
if the government does this to the people's resources then it should be perfectly legal if not an obligation as a citizen to recycle these items. the amount of supplies here would save leagues of thousands on budgeting. left over notes should be conserved if not have the paper reused after photographic documentation. this school is a cultural heritage site for my fellow countrymen, instead of worrying about politics we depose of the current Corrupts and place a veteran of the field to administer the field. politician should be an extinct job. competition is unproductive enough when one thinks of only power and not service nor to solution
also make unnatural destruction of abandoned property a crime since it's done for owned property too. make that come along with the pre-instilled obligation to salvage this gear left to rot if we won't revive the site and to never let a sacrifice be for nothing, the crappy crats don't give a Rat's Crapper what occurs here so they should stay out until the people call the government for assistance
More classic keyboards, that's cool!
The black solid-surface epoxy resin tops in the labs came from my factory in North Carolina, Kewaunee Scientific Corporation. We're the only ones in the world that make shiny tops. The first ones you show, with the molded radius are from before about 2000. After that, we moved to beveled edges. The octogonal student tables are actually newer. The double-sided fume hood may have come from our metal casework plant, but it's hard to tell since it's been defaced. I'm not sure if the wood cabinets are ours. If they are, they are an older design. Nice find!
In my water plant lab we have all Kewaunee steel casework cabinets and a Supreme Air fume hood, and what seems like acres of black countertop, although ours is matte rather than shiny, unless it's rubbed down and buffed with mineral oil regularly. Good stuff though. In a harsh chlorine gas exposure environment there's barely any cabinet rusting. Stuff was installed when plant was built in 1999.
Recently had to spray WD40 on some real tricky spots in the fume hood to lubricate the counterbalance pulleys all the way in the back. It was so stiff it took 2 people to pull the glass cover closed lol. Now it takes 2 fingers.
It's very likely you have mix and match. Our casework and our competitor's tops. It happens. We have shared some of the same sales groups. We have even sold each other's stuff directly. Right now we have a competitor who had a fire in their plant ans we are supplying some of their material to keep them in business. So we compete, but we are sometimes each other's customers. Anything to give the customers what they need and keep our investors happy.
Dude, seeing that ROTC room, alongside the curtain closing at the end, that legitmately made me cry..
I attended this high school and graduated from here. I attended Joel Elias Spingarn Senior high school from 2003 to 2006. Wow. It looks terrifying being abandoned.