From the start of the thread:
Okay, I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations is up on this, so here it goes: I grew up like a quarter mile away from this thing. My friends would regularly sneak inside. It's a truly an incredible building and it's a crime what has happened to it. https://t.co/PhBQld0HOo
— 𝗡𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘆 (@mnolangray) May 26, 2021
The year is 2004. My friend and I are playing around on an extremely rudimentary Google Earth in middle school computer class. Funny enough, it wasn't the building that fascinated us: it was this black blob. We resolved to hop fences and see what it was. pic.twitter.com/oAgYC6waus
— 𝗡𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘆 (@mnolangray) May 26, 2021
The black blob was of course just a retention pond, but then, there it was: arising at boundary between cheap tract homes and an aristocratic, this utterly surreal structure. I still get goosebumps thinking about it. pic.twitter.com/fFYzeb9ZLT
— 𝗡𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘆 (@mnolangray) May 26, 2021
By high school, some friends and I would finally work up the nerve to sneak in. Obviously the windows and doors were all locked and there were ADT signs everywhere. But there was this strange little garbage hatch in the kitchen that we could easily open and crawl through.
— 𝗡𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘆 (@mnolangray) May 26, 2021
It's really hard to put into words how strange it all was, hopping a fence from a suburban tract street and wandering into what felt like Myst. It was this incredible maze of platforms, rooms, and stairwells. pic.twitter.com/GPIaLEJEu4
— 𝗡𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘆 (@mnolangray) May 26, 2021