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[[Abandoned Warehouse]], [[Abandoned Hospital]], [[Haunted House]], and [[Ghost City]] are popular subjects for this trope. See also [[Abandoned Area]], [[Ragnarok Proofing]], [[In Working Order]], and [[The Constant]].
[[Abandoned Warehouse]], [[Abandoned Hospital]], [[Haunted House]], and [[Ghost City]] are popular subjects for this trope. See also [[Abandoned Area]], [[Ragnarok Proofing]], [[In Working Order]], and [[The Constant]].
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== Comic Books ==
== Comic Books ==
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* In Mexico, when a drug dealer is arrested, all property in his name is "secured" until it can be proven it wasn't made with dirty money. Such is the case of one discotheque named "frankie oh", property of Benjamín Arellano Felix, which has been abandoned for years; at one point the entrances were blocked to stop people from going inside. In the later years publicity has been hung outside the please to prettify it a bit. More details (in Spanish) [http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/articulos/ArticuloGeneral.asp?IdCat=6097&idart=10415598 here.]
* In Mexico, when a drug dealer is arrested, all property in his name is "secured" until it can be proven it wasn't made with dirty money. Such is the case of one discotheque named "frankie oh", property of Benjamín Arellano Felix, which has been abandoned for years; at one point the entrances were blocked to stop people from going inside. In the later years publicity has been hung outside the please to prettify it a bit. More details (in Spanish) [http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/articulos/ArticuloGeneral.asp?IdCat=6097&idart=10415598 here.]
* In Evansville Indiana a couple discovered that an office building that they sought to buy had an entire second story that had been sealed off for over 70 years. Even with much of the furnishings removed it still contained several fireplace mantels, a stack of old canceled checks dated between June and December 1930 and and other tidbits related to the hardware company that made use of the offices in the second story.
* In Evansville Indiana a couple discovered that an office building that they sought to buy had an entire second story that had been sealed off for over 70 years. Even with much of the furnishings removed it still contained several fireplace mantels, a stack of old canceled checks dated between June and December 1930 and and other tidbits related to the hardware company that made use of the offices in the second story.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunland_Hospital Sunnyland], an abandoned hospital in Tallahassee, Florida. It wasn't recycled for decades due to the expense of demolishing a building filled with asbestos.
* [[wikipedia:Sunland Hospital|Sunnyland]], an abandoned hospital in Tallahassee, Florida. It wasn't recycled for decades due to the expense of demolishing a building filled with asbestos.


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[[Category:Acceptable Breaks From Reality]]
[[Category:Acceptable Breaks From Reality]]
[[Category:Truth in Television]]
[[Category:Truth in Television]]
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[[Category:Never Recycle a Building]]