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20 years ago or so we would drive through the area and smell it. We went back there about 5 years ago and wandered around the graffiti highway with the family.
by quaffapint 6y ago
20 years ago or so we would drive through the area and smell it. We went back there about 5 years ago and wandered around the graffiti highway with the family. It was an interesting experience. You just pulled along basically an old road and wandered around some abandoned graffiti'd up roads and woods. It didn't really smell like before.
There were still homes on the edges, which I was surprised to see. Good to read the article to understand why they were still there. I imagine they're happy that the 'attraction' has been shut down.
- alamortsubite 6y agoIn the 80s and 90s many row homes in Centralia had ad hock supports keeping them standing upright- their next-door neighbors had already been evacuated and demolished due to subsidence from the fire depleting coal veins below. It was impressive. Besides the smoke and odor, on the outskirts of town you could sometimes see fire coming up out of the ground.