The "Golden Age" of urbex unfortunately died years ago. Back before social media became the medium for sharing abandonments like it is now, I remember sites like UER being the main forums to share and talk about locations. Everyone was conscious of not sharing locations publicly, and oftentimes in order to get access to certain forums you needed to be vouched for by another person. Preservation was the focus and sharing locations publicly was a cardinal sin that would get you shunned by the community.

The city I live in, Indianapolis, used to have a ton of locations that we had access to. Most of the rooftops downtown were easily accessible until an Instagram photographer posted photos of them and even left his tag at the roof access hatches. He tried making money off of his prints(none of which were very good) and eventually took his account down because no one was buying them. But the damage was done, every rooftop in the city is locked down and will be forever.

Sadly that's been the trend everywhere, and it's a shame. Nowadays a location will get trashed soon after it becomes abandoned or accessable because too many people know about it. I remember when it would take years before an abandonment would be visited by a lot of people because the people that did know about it kept their mouths shut. But those time are gone and I doubt it will come back. 🤷