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Many "ghost" neighborhoods here where I live. They were bulldozed out and roads were laid but that is far as it ever got. Makes you realize how things come and go and nothing is constant.

Youngstown, Ohio

Doc said as soon as I got back to 1985 to destroy the time machine. Well, I don't think he's going to have to worry about that.

where are some of these ghost towns in La. or Tx.

that would be a good place to go with a metal detector.

Economic Ghost Towns

Sometimes, the more things change...


The more they really stay the same.

This stuff is just scary. To hear that some cities are shutting down police and fire protection is something I've known about and simply can't grasp "here in America".

I live in NW IL--we were once the place to be in the Midwest, right on the Rock River, we had Northwestern Steel and Wire, Lawrence Bros., National Mfg., Reliant Fastener, etc...

Yep we were booming, but now...every last one is gone. Sterling Steel has replaced NWS&W, but only employs a couple hundred people where there used to be 4,000+ jobs.

National Mfg. got taken over by Stanley, but the workers there got notice several months ago that in early 2011, their jobs will all be gone (150-200 people I believe). The only bright spots left are Wahl Clipper Corp. (headquartered in the town I live in) and there's a Wal-Mart Dist. Center.

It's not all bad, though, we have alot more Title and Payday loan stores around so that keeps a few people employed...

We have got to bring back jobs to this country. We can fix a lot of our county's problems if we get the jobs back. Remember when they told us that the future was in computers? Now those jobs have gone to India. The democrats have failed to pass any meaningful bill to return jobs back to this country. I'm constantly riding Ohio Senator Brown's butt about his broken promise of introducing a bill to repeal NAFTA and GAFTA.

Ghost Town? Try Ghost Country.