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Nicotti
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 Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: Re: houses |
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The old stone structure shown here is an old Route 66 roadside lookout.
Old path leading from parking lot to lookout:
Lookout:
Green Plaque:
"Jensen Point"
Named in honor of Lars Peter Jensen First president of
The Henry Shaw Gardenway Association
Constructed by
CO. (#,1,4)770 Civilian Conservation Corps
Under the supervision of
The National Park Service
co-operating with
The Missouri State Highway Department
Site donated by V.R. Smith May 30 1939
Red Plaque:
Lars Peter Jansen
For Eighteen Years Manager
of the
Missouri Botanical Gardens
Arboretum
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Denmark 1867
Gray's Summit, MO 1941
IN MEMORIAM
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The Henry Shaw Gardenway
Association
June 1, 1941
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: houses |
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I am not sure what this structure is. It was 3-4 stories tall. Bing shows the tops open, but there were no other openings in it except for 3 small chutes per cell on the railroad side. The whole thing was made from rebar reinforced concrete. They appear to be hoppers of some sort because one cell had a broke open hole in it's wall large enough to crawl into, that was spilling out pea gravel. Inside that cell there was old metal ladders going up the side to the top, but the rungs were rusted away, leaving only the pegs and old rusted panels bolted shut between the cells. Also someone had tied a garden hose off as a make-shift rope to the top.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: houses |
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| Nicotti wrote: | The old stone structure shown here is an old Route 66 roadside lookout.
Old path leading from parking lot to lookout: |
Where did you park? |
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Nicotti
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: houses |
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Briefly in the "Do not park here" area to the east of it.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:28 pm Post subject: RE: houses |
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| Nice work. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:10 pm Post subject: RE: houses |
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| Awesome stuff. The old route 66 look out looks like it'd be a fun spot to visit. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:21 am Post subject: Re: houses |
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Very nice pics!
I wonder what this was, right along the river bank? |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: houses |
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that and the building in the trees there are on my list of "to go to next"
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:29 pm Post subject: Re: houses |
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a small shed? in the woods.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:50 am Post subject: Re: houses |
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Here's a house by me that they had been working on 2-3 years ago but then suddenly stopped like they ran out of money: http://tinyurl.com/6v8svr7
Have yet to explore it.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:21 pm Post subject: Re: houses |
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| Cerealkiller wrote: | Here's a house by me that they had been working on 2-3 years ago but then suddenly stopped like they ran out of money: http://tinyurl.com/6v8svr7
Have yet to explore it. |
Nice!! It's going on the list.... Thank you! |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:17 pm Post subject: Re: houses |
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Welcome.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:41 pm Post subject: Re: houses |
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I am finding zilch as to the history of the Pacific Palisades area prior to it's DNR ownership.
I did stumble onto this Youtube video --> Click Here
Who was it that was looking for car parts?  |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:20 pm Post subject: RE: houses |
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Me of course!
These are obviously a little to far gone 
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:56 pm Post subject: RE: houses |
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I went to this house today. It was a real bitch to get to. I didn't go the obvious easy way off Lookaway Dr. because it involved walking down someone's driveway and onto their property in the ghetto. I parked on Dundee Ct. and walked through a supposed "park". Ended up slipping and sliding up and down two gigantic muddy ass hills so steep you had to grab trees and shit so you didn't slide right back down, crossed two creeks, and finally got to the damn thing. Not as cool as it looked from 270...
The way we went in was so bad we said fuck it and walked through these people's yard to get out, scared as hell that someone was going to shoot us for being there. There were no trespassing signs EVERYWHERE! Luckily, no one saw us, but I had a story ready about how we visited the park that the map said was there and we got lost, just in case. Honestly, I wouldn't suggest anyone else try and go to this house, because it wasn't worth it. It may have been a little bit easier if the ground was dry though...
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