♪ >> IT IS CALLED URBAN EXPLORING, A TREND THAT GREW THE POPULARITY OF SOCIAL MEDIA.
AN INSIDE LOOK AT ABANDONED PLACES, BUT MUCH OF WHAT YOU SEE IS ILLEGAL ONLINE AND OFTEN DANGEROUS.
THAT IS WHERE JASON ALLARD COMES IN, ANY URBAN EXPLORER WITH A TWIST HE HAS TAKEN SKYHIGH.
>> I-5 MY DRONE, SO I PLAYED AROUND THESE ABANDONED LEASES.
IT GIVES YOU A WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE WITHOUT HAVING TO GO IN AND RISK A TRESPASSING CHARGE.
>> WE MET HIM ALONG THE RIVER IN PROVIDENCE WERE COMMUTERS TRAVELING 195 NOT HELP BUT MISS A VIEW OF AN EYE-POPPING DISPLAY OF URBAN DECAY.
IT’S JUST A SYMBOL OF WHAT USED TO BE, A TI OF TRANSPORTATION, AND THAT’S ALL GONE NOW.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FEE OF STUCK UP HISTORY, THE QUICK POINT BRIDGE NOW DEFUNCT SINCE ITS ABANDONMENT IN 1976 FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES HAS SAT IN THE POSTURE YOU SEE IT IN TODAY
RATHER THAN TAKE IT DOWN.
THEY FIGURED IT WAS CHEAPER TO JUST KIND OF GET IT STUCK UP IN THE OPPOSITION AND LEAVE IT AT THAT, A POSITION THAT WAS MEANT TO ALLOW FOR BOA TRAFFIC BUT HAS OPENED THE DOOR TO A CERTAIN
LEVEL INFAMOUS TENSION.
IT’S KIND OF A NOTORIOUS SPOT FOR TAGGERS.
YOU’LL SEE A LOT OF GRAFFITI ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT.
SOME DAREDEVILS WILL ACTUALLY CLAIM IT WITH CLIMBING GEAR, EVIDENCE THAT SWINGS FROM HIGH ABOVE, LARGELY NOW COVERED IN RUST, IN GRAFFITI.
IT IS ONE OF THE FEW ABANDONED PLACES THAT IS ON PUBLIC DISPLAY.
SO WHAT IS THE FASCINATION FOR THOSE THAT ARE NOT S EASILY ACCESSIBLE?
NO ONE’S GOING TO THESE PLACES ANYMORE.
YOU KNOW, THEY USED TO BE BUSTLING SOCIAL CENTERS, PLACES C1
>> TO KNOW ONE DAY PEOPLE UP AND LEFT AND NEVER WENT BACK.
>> BACK IN HIS STUDIO, WHERE HE HAS PRODUCED DOZENS OF SHORT FILMS OF WHAT HE CALLS TIME CAPSULES JUST WAITING TO BE EXPLORED, HE EXPLAINS WHY HE DOES IT.
>> I THINK THE STATE THEY ARE IN IS BEAUTIFUL.
I GET VERY EXCITED WHEN I SEE AN ABANDONED PLACE KNOWING THERE IS A STORY TO TELL THERE.
>> A STORY THAT BEGAN BY CHANCE.
>> I LOOKED IN THROUGH ONE OF THE WINDOWS AND SAW ALL OF THE DESKS WERE STILL SET UP ON THE LAST DAY -- AS THEY WERE ON THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL.
YOU CAN SEE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL, 2009, AND THIS WAS 2012 SO IT HAD BEEN CLOSED THREE YEARS.
AND GREW OUT OF A DOCUMENTARY.
>> ONCE WE WENT INTO THE BUILDING, THAT’S WHERE I KNEW -- I WA PASSIONATE -- WHERE I KNEW I WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS AND HAD TO FIND MORE PLACES.
SO HE DID.
FROM ABANDONED -- TO ADVENTURELAND SOME WOULD CALL ERIE.
HE HAS A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE.
>> I WOULD DESCRIBE IT AS PEACEFUL.
YOU ARE AT PEACE KNOWING NATURE IS RECLAIMING THIS PIECE AND NO ONE WILL GO THERE ANYMORE.
SO THERE IS JUST YOU AND WHAT ONCE WAS.
A BRIDGE FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE.
ALLARD SAID HE HOPES WHAT HE LEAVES BEHIND IS ONE AS A LESSON IN HISTORY.
>> TAKE ONLY PHOTOGRAPHS LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINTS, THAT IS SOMETHING I TRY TO REMEMBER.
YOU CAN FEEL THE PRESENCE OF OTHER PEOPLE, SO THAT IS WHY I DON’T WANT TO DISTURB ANYTHING.
SINCE THEY LEFT IT THIS WAY, WE WILL KEEP IT THIS WAY.
>> THE CROOK FREUND BRIDGE -- THE CROOK POINT BRIDGE MAY BE COMING DOWN OR NOT.
THERE WAS A PL TO DEMOLISH THE BRIDGE BY 2027 BUT THEN THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE THAT IN MY CONSIDER TAKING OWNERSHIP OF THE BRIDGE TO PRESERVE IT.
SOME PEOPLE WANT TO KEEP IT STUCK UP.
COMING UP, WHEN