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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Dec 17, 2022 12:24:35 GMT -5
Xydexx Unicorn (Xydexx Squeakypony) is a gay lavender inflatable unicorn character created on December 13, 1993 by Karl Xydexx Jorgensen. Xydexx is a personal furry, and believes Furry fandom is what you make of it and that the type of fandom we get depends on who and what we support. Xydexx is most well-known for his life philosophy of "Be good, have fun, fill your world with awesome." and "Surround yourself with good furries, and be one yourself." Since 2007, Xydexx has made it a matter of policy to surround himself with good furries, because life's too short to drink poison. You can tell a lot about someone by how they react to Xydexx.
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Oct 20, 2015 21:15:52 GMT -5
Hello. I am the squeakiest pony.
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Feb 12, 2010 19:52:37 GMT -5
Glad you found the information useful! I grew up in Hawthorne, just a few miles away from Eastview. I've long been fascinated with the history of Westchester County, especially places which don't exist anymore. I'm hoping to add more information on Eastview once I track it down. The Tarrytown Historical Society has a good amount of information available; it's where I found the newspaper articles about Eastview. Best of luck in your research!
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Jan 20, 2010 10:13:39 GMT -5
Just a quick announcement, Anthrofurry Infocenter has made the long-overdue name change to Furry Fandom Infocenter.
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Jan 20, 2010 1:38:55 GMT -5
Just a quick note that I've finished creating a webpage about the history of Eastview, New York. The village of Eastview was bought up by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in the 1930s and pretty much wiped off the map. There's nothing left of it. I've added a map showing where the buildings used to be, and some newspaper articles with interviews from the people who had to move.
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Jan 7, 2010 12:18:59 GMT -5
I've found myself with some Copious Free Time and have been updating XYDEXX.COM and its associated websites. The newest additions are: - XYDEXX.INFO — I'm not entirely sure what to do with it. Perhaps a catchall for the Important Research being conducted by Lambert Lambert. Right now it mostly just has my cranana bread recipe on it.
- XYDEXX.NET — Home of the Holey Bubble, because someone once said I should start my own religion. It's based on all the happybouncysilly things I've posted. Long live the cause of Offensive Cuteness and Unnecessary Smiling!
- XYDEXX.ORG — I'm not sure what to do with this one either, but right now it has a ginormous transcription of The TV Show, a chaotic animated music video.
I'll probably figure out where things should go eventually.
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Jan 7, 2010 12:02:18 GMT -5
Finding abandoned places to explore can take effort and research, by using Google Maps or Bing Maps, or it can be a spur-of-the-moment decision to check out an abandoned building you passed while driving. I find most of my abandoned sites by browsing around Google/Bing Maps, but I also check out the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress and study old maps to find where the old roads and railroads used to go. What are some of your favorite websites or sources of information?
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Dec 20, 2009 21:09:05 GMT -5
I recently updated my pictures of the ruins of an abandoned house near where I live in Leesburg, VA. I thought the property was going to be developed, but it turns out the construction there was for the new Dominion Power lines they're putting in. Pictures are at: www.xydexx.com/modernruins/sycolin.htm
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Feb 10, 2009 11:37:57 GMT -5
Theback room has always thrown me off as there are several large diameter pipes that enter into the back wall (building is built into the hill) They are probably 24-30" in diameter and terminate just inside of the building. I had wondered if it was a pumping station or switchover but there are no remains of pumps or any type of equipment, not even conduit. I had also wondered of it was a greenhouse at one point. I've suspect that Mohansic Golf Course used to be the site of the New York State Training School For Boys. From what I've been reading it was south of Mohansic Lake. There were several stone buildings which existed on the property. The building may be the school's power house or sewage plant, which was under construction at the time and ordered to be converted into a farm building. The property was acquired for Mohansic Golf Course in 1922. Also of note: The Mohansic Golf Course's driveway used to be a road which went all the way through to Mohansic Avenue. Before the school was built, it was farmland owned (mostly) by the Purdy family.
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Feb 9, 2009 21:09:50 GMT -5
TI also never came in contact with any rail spurs... I am going to contact the yorktown historical group and try to inquire. The abandoned railroad grade is located approximately 400 feet north of Baldwin Road where the Con Ed lines cross. From there it extended west across a trestle over Crom Pond and continued into Mohansic State Park. Curiously, there is also what appears to be another spur of the railroad grade which parallels just north of Baldwin Road and crosses the Taconic Parkway and ends at the south end of Mohansic Golf Course.
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Feb 9, 2009 20:59:12 GMT -5
hey....that area behind mohansic was going to be an insane asylum way back. the put railroad built a spur to mohansic with a bridge. one of the workers working on the asylum assaulted or killed somebody back there, and the locals freaked.....so no asylum, and a rail spur to nowhere. Gonna have to debunk this one as urban legend. The proposal to build Mohansic State Hospital was abandoned after citizens cited concerns about pollution to the Croton Reservoir watershed. See related: Pure Drinking Water Assured Forever - New York Times, May 11, 1918 (.PDF) Edit: My bad... it turns out there actually was a murder at Mohansic State Hospital, of a 19 year old hospital attendant in 1913. Details to follow soon.
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Jan 11, 2009 19:45:07 GMT -5
I have always wondered what this building was. You can access it from Hunterbrook Rd. There are many trails/open roadways that will lead you to an abandoned building behind the mohansic golf course, also less than 1/4 mile off of the taconic pkwy. Hi Andrew- I found the building you were talking about via Bird's Eye View on maps.live.com/ , but I have no idea what it might be. It's too far away from the aqueduct to be part of that. It appears to be part of the Mohansic State Park property according to topographic maps from 1941 and 1991-ish (it is not on the 1892 map). I haven't been there myself, but I'm guessing it may have been a maintenance shed of some sort. -Xydexx
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on May 20, 2008 14:14:00 GMT -5
One of my favorite places to explore is the Hudson Highlands in New York. It's loaded with old crumbling mansions and old iron-ore mines from the 1800s. Fortunately, some books have been written which can help to find them. Here are a few of the ones in my collection: - Iron Mine Trails by Edward J. Lenik - A history and hiker's guide to the historic iron mines of the New Jersey and New York Highlands. Most of the New York mines listed are in Harriman State Park in Rockland County, including Hogencamp Mine, Surebridge, Mine, and Pine Swamp Mine. The book includes maps and histories of the various sites.
- Hiking the Road to Ruins by David A. Steinberg - Day Trips and Camping Adventures to Iron Mines, Old Miltary Sites, and Things Abandoned in the New York City Area and Beyond. Most of the sites are day trips from New York City, but there are a few (C&O Canal and Boston Harbor Islands) which are further away. This book has a lot of information on sites I never knew about, such as the Burnett-Timken Estate along the Palisades.
- Fifty Hikes in the Hudson Valley - by Barbara McMartin and Peter Kick. From the Catskills to the Taconics, and from the Ramapos to the Heiderbergs. Includes Storm King and Breakneck Mountain, and many hikes further up the Hudson, exploring sites of old mountain houses in the Catskills, some of which still exist today. Detailed topographic maps and history.
What are some of your recommended books on modern ruins and abandoned places?
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Post by Xydexx Unicorn on Nov 23, 2007 18:04:40 GMT -5
I'm in the process of updating my Modern Ruins page, and I've just finished tidying up the message archive from our old message board. I think the archived messages will be useful to anyone who is interested in modern ruins and urban exploration, or local history research. I'm eventually going to add abstracts that will list the more common subjects in each archive. You can view the message archives at: www.xydexx.com/modernruins/archive_00.htm
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