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 02/27/2007 01:11:07 PM · #26
Very cool pix, Brad. Thanks for sharing ... Just for the record, the spookiness does show through the images. They are almost post apocolyptic in attitude.

I really enjoyed this tour ... thanks ...
02/27/2007 01:17:06 PM · #27
"intelligence"

we already knew I'm dumb
 02/27/2007 01:31:59 PM · #28
I shot this heading East on I10 back in August:


It is being maintained, as the graffiti is being painted over.

And yes Sonya, Intelligence - you were smart enough NOT to go there.
Probably would have been the day the caretakers(?) had their trained attack Dogs and Pigeons at the ready.
:P
 02/27/2007 02:25:55 PM · #29
Mannnn, I always dream of finding somewhere like this! Best I've done so far is a little 1800's stone church :(
 02/27/2007 03:13:12 PM · #30
I am glad you revived this thread. I just went there this afternoon, but it seems a little more cared for and my photos are not as haunting as yours.

I could not drive through the ditch as it has been redug to a very deep level. I walked across the huge field (parking lot??).

Most are not so good, but I did manage to process 4 of them.

Barbara




Message edited by author 2007-02-27 15:25:36.
 02/27/2007 03:47:00 PM · #31
Yay - fresh pixels, hot off the press.

Did you get up close, especially around the back side by the freeway? Still weird echoes there, especially when the semis are slowing down? What's really cool, is when you are cautiously walking around it, then suddenly the birds all take off at once! - sheesh - I was NOT ready for that noise!

Guess all cleaned up is isn't quite as skeery looking anymore.

Oh - and the ditch? Just go really really fast - you'll make it - uh huh - right....
:P
 02/27/2007 03:53:47 PM · #32
Originally posted by Brad:

Did you get up close, especially around the back side by the freeway? Still weird echoes there, especially when the semis are slowing down? What's really cool, is when you are cautiously walking around it, then suddenly the birds all take off at once! - sheesh - I was NOT ready for that noise!



I got very close and walked all around it. It was very quiet, not a bird to be heard. Sort of spooky, I keep expecting a caretaker to show up and throw me off the property. It was not nearly as good of a photo adventure as you had, the grass is long dead, most of the graffiti is cleaned up.
 02/27/2007 03:55:05 PM · #33
Originally posted by BeeCee:
Mannnn, I always dream of finding somewhere like this! Best I've done so far is a little 1800's stone church :(


I would trade this trotter park for an 1800's stone church any day!
The older, the better, I always say.

Barbara
 02/27/2007 03:55:20 PM · #34
It's a shame they don't do something with it. It would make a great concert venue or something. I used to drive by that place everyday when I worked out in litchfield.

Message edited by author 2007-02-27 15:55:32.
 02/27/2007 04:05:01 PM · #35
Like most living in the Phoenix metro area I've driven by the park right beside I-10 on the way to or from California many times and thought of it as an interesting photo opportunity.

Sadly, I never photographed it.
 04/08/2007 10:15:24 AM · #36
I was on my way to CA from Phoenix in 1989 and saw this place and stopped and photographed it then, oddly it didnt look much different than it does now. I always wondered what it was, and thanks to this forum I now have my answer !

Thanks !
 03/15/2009 10:07:30 PM · #37
Phoenix Trotter Park is in the movie "No Code of Conduct" starring Charlie and Martin Sheen. Here's a link to the Trailer on YouTube. The end of the trailer features some exciting footage of the Trotter Park. Enjoy!
 06/23/2009 05:02:34 AM · #38
//www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=85886&id=507504850&saved#/album.php?aid=85886&id=507504850

just went with my brother...sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet time...creepy as a mofo
 01/08/2011 09:39:15 PM · #39
went again. same facebook.
 01/08/2011 10:35:42 PM · #40
what's with all the broken links in this thread?

01/08/2011 11:04:27 PM · #41
Originally posted by zeuszen:
what's with all the broken links in this thread?


Check the date...2005
 01/08/2011 11:12:23 PM · #42
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by zeuszen:
what's with all the broken links in this thread?


Check the date...2005


I didn't have senior moments then, did I?
 01/08/2011 11:16:32 PM · #43
You weren't senior then...

R.
01/08/2011 11:57:56 PM · #44
I used to drive past the place everyday, back in 1990, while I was working at Palo Verde. At the time the local (at the plant) legend was that it was a stillborn dog track. Story at the time was that it had been built with Mafia money, and that the state found out a few days before the grand opening, and yanked the liscence "forever". Interesting how failure stories can get twisted so quickly. Failed trotter track gets bought by dog track owner, turns into Mafia dog track banned forever.
 03/15/2011 01:54:03 PM · #45
Thank you for posting this! There is no other information on this really on the web! I drive by several times a year and always want to stop and take photos but never know how to get there. Anyone been their lately and can give me some advice? Thanks...
 03/15/2011 04:18:00 PM · #46
hmmmm...interesting place

i read the first post and thought,huh? we have an abandoned building challenge? then saw the date.
 03/15/2011 04:34:38 PM · #47
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
You weren't senior then...

LOL!
 06/16/2011 05:56:16 PM · #48
facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.497638349850.276644.507504850&l=c6bc929e22
facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.96374739850.85886.507504850&l=f10e6724d9

Try these two links.

These are pictures I have taken there.

AMAZING PLACE!
 06/16/2011 05:56:45 PM · #49
YOU HAVE TO ADD THE //www. IN FRONT. IT WOULDN'T LET ME POST THE LINK WITH IT. ODD.
 06/16/2011 06:08:12 PM · #50
Originally posted by semperhonorablus:
YOU HAVE TO ADD THE //www. IN FRONT. IT WOULDN'T LET ME POST THE LINK WITH IT. ODD.


You have to have posted a certain number of times to the forums before you can link; it cuts down on spammers.

R.
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