Subtropolis

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There are all kinds of subterranean places all over the world. Some of the very old ones are just now being discovered with new technology, others are only know about by a very few people. In Galveston, Texas there were old underground munition storage facilities that were discovered in the late 60's, early 70's. One of them was refurbished & used as a night club. One of the other ones was a haven for rattle snakes & water moccasins. It was filled up & covered over, to keep the stupid people out of it.
 
dibbons, I spent 3 years working in Cheyenne as a civilian contractor to the United States government. The TV show Stargate SG1 used the main entrance in the series. I can tell you from personal experience that nothing else they tried to portray is even close to the truth.
 
I used to go caving in parts of OH, TN, and KY back in my 20's and 30's.

Some of the "wild' caves I was in were truly amazing.

One had a room that was as big as a football stadium with a rock the size of a garage in the middle.
Attached to the rock was a plastic tube with some sheets of notebook paper containing names of people that had been there.
I was #24.
 
i think there is an underground mall in kansas city. a guy named dale wilch has a swap/sell on commision shop there.
 
There's one in Louisville Ky. They decorate and you can drive through at Christmas time, they also have zip lines in there you can ride. There's a whole underworld here where I live, Mammoth Cave is only a few miles from me.
 
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On the way home from Canada we did this adventure.
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Then I spent 40 years moving rocks around :rofl:
The hard rock gold mine in the California gold fields I toured really demonstrated what hard rock mining could be like. I stuck to the open pit stuff :rofl:
 
Demonracer said:
dibbons, I spent 3 years working in Cheyenne as a civilian contractor to the United States government. The TV show Stargate SG1 used the main entrance in the series. I can tell you from personal experience that nothing else they tried to portray is even close to the truth.
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riiigght... :rolleyes:




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Mopar-Mitch said:
There's one in Louisville Ky. They decorate and you can drive through at Christmas time, they also have zip lines in there you can ride. There's a whole underworld here where I live, Mammoth Cave is only a few miles from me.
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Mega Caverns. I've been there. I went to huge party/dance there a few years back.
I've also been to Mammoth Cave.
I used to own some property in Brandenburg KY, there is a cave system near there as well. I think they had to seal the entrance up. Somebody managed to get stuck and died.
 
There are many caves in Kansas City, and in Missouri in general. One of our vendors operates out of the caves, and I remember visiting a major name diesel heavy equipment manufacturer in the caves, when I was in college years ago. We were 20+ stories below. They look like the first picture the op posted inside.

It's VERY easy to get lost in them.
 
One of my caving friends is a big history buff, and I am as well.

During one trip, the entire party used carbide lamps only.

We each had a mag lite as a backup but it was kind of fun to do it lake they did 100 years ago.
 
YY1 said:
One of my caving friends is a big history buff, and I am as well.

During one trip, the entire party used carbide lamps only.

We each had a mag lite as a backup but it was kind of fun to do it lake they did 100 years ago.
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I wanted a carbide lamp so bad when I was a kid. :D There was just something so cool about adding water to rocks and making fire and light :lol:.
 
Why does it not surprise me that those are both in OH?
 
dibbons said:
Cincinnati

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I've been on the subway tour with the Cincinnati Museum. You can still see the entrance tunnels off of I-75. The ones on the I-71 side are pretty much lost to development.
Construction stopped with the start of WWI. Funds for the project were reallocated and the subway abandoned. A massive water main runs thru the center of one of the train tunnels and the stations were used a fallout shelters during the cold war.
The homeless pretty much have run of the place now.
 
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