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[Fancy Dan]

These aren't my photos, I'm just linking to them on Flickr so you all can enjoy them. I would have loved to explore this place before it got demolished in 2005, just a few short years before my ventures into exploration. Most of these photos freak the hell out of me. If I found a half torched baby doll in the dark halls, I'd probably be quite startled.

I don't know much about it, but heres what wikipedia said:

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Cooper Upper Elementary School - Formerly Cooper Elementary School & Whittier Junior High School. The older school, located across from the present location, opened in 1966 & closed in 1991 due do the growing concern by the city of the school's location over a landfill. The older building was demolished in the Fall of 2005. The older building was also a Michigan Historical Landmark. The LPS District is looking into the vacant property, which is currently part of a redeveloping project with Westland, located south of Livonia.

Status: Demolished!

Trespassing Signs: Yes. Its a toxic waste dump, might want to stay out.
Patrolled: No
Personally Visited: Yes

Photos by jurrble:


Photos by jimnieken:


The artist of the above photos sent me this:

jimnieken said:

But from what I recall, the hallways and classrooms looked like a tornado had run through them. Probably the result of ransacking or reckless vandalism, it kind of looked like someone had taken an orderly elementary school, turned it upside down, shaken it a few times, and set it back. Little desks, books, computers, shelves, and paper were strewn everywhere. Very chaotic and dark.

Also, by that time the school had caught on fire several times, possibly due to accidents, but more likely due to arson and vandalism. So almost every horizontal surface was coated in a thick, greasy soot.

The gymnasium was particularly surreal. It seems the district was using the building for storage, and they had parked hundreds of cafeteria tables in there. It was dense, like a full parking lot, all propped up and in their ordered rows. Naturally I tried to take a picture of it, but it was not to be.

Photos by City of Westland (I have no idea why that lady is in all of them):




Photos from Unknown Sources:

Edited by Avenge The Fallen, 06 May 2008 - 06:30 PM.

[Tilas]

That doll really creeps me out. Very artistic photos!

[BobManPerson]

Mildly disturbing.

[Fancy Dan]

BobManPerson, on May 6 2008, 07:48 PM, said:

Mildly disturbing.

Mildly? Really?

I find them quite disturbing. Mostly the partially torched dolls, which I've determined were actually CPR dolls. I can't help but wonder if its limbs were torched off from the fire or by some vandals?

[Fancy Dan]

More photos (photos from forgottenmichigan.com):

[Savanna]

this place is beautiful! and its not surrounded by anything, which makes it so much easier.
the abandoned schools in philly, well of course phillys such a packed city, theres buildings ALL around it.
im jealous!

[Fancy Dan]

Savanna, on Nov 19 2008, 04:25 PM, said:

this place is beautiful! and its not surrounded by anything, which makes it so much easier.
the abandoned schools in philly, well of course phillys such a packed city, theres buildings ALL around it.
im jealous!

I know! I would have loved to see this place, but sadly it was demolished before I even got into UE.

[Lobotomy]

Avenge The Fallen, on Sep 10 2008, 04:12 PM, said:

This makes me one unhappy panda. >

[Fancy Dan]

Lobotomy, on Dec 19 2008, 03:54 PM, said:

This makes me one unhappy panda. >

Me too, but Cooper was where they put the broken computers after they retired them. That was probably broken long before someone smashed it.

[Chaindrive]

Why on earth do people need to destroy stuff? I just hate that.

[Savanna]

i hate going somewhere beautiful and seeing everything broken. the graffitti doesnt bother me so much, but when people go somewhere to just TRASH everything, i'd enjoy punching them in the face and pulling their arms out.
They cant demolish anything if they dont have arms!

the poe house in PA, everytime i go there its more and more trashed. they ripped the railings out from the stairs, and threw them around. tore a huge hole in the wall. broke the shelves. smashed the door to pieces. break anything thats glass in there. steal the crystal doorknobs.
its such a beautiful old house, its horrible to see that going on.
i would probably hurt someone if i found them doing it, im not kidding!

[Chaindrive]

I feel the same way. Abandonments are sacred to me, I keep my hands behind my back so as not to touch or break anything.

[Savanna]

i wont lie, i poke at stuff.. im like a cat, i explore the place, and everything in it
but i dont go all hulk and pick it up above my head and throw it across the room!

[Ron Donald]

Savanna, on Jan 16 2009, 11:15 PM, said:

i wont lie, i poke at stuff.. im like a cat, i explore the place, and everything in it
but i dont go all hulk and pick it up above my head and throw it across the room!

What you see in the pictures is history of the past so poking around is not a big deal as I see it. Others may not agree but to each his own LOL. This place looked cool from the pictures to bad I live to far away and it is already demolished.

[Savanna]

yeah like i dont see a problem with looking in something or looking around in things, im just being curious! i would never ruin anything.