Exploring a Huge Abandoned DC High School

In today's episode we're in Washington DC to explore the

abandoned

Spingarn High School. The

school

opened in 1952 as a segregated

school

for African American students. It would soon be desegregated after the 1954 Supreme Court decision, but the student body remained almost 100 percent African. -American throughout the life of the school in 2013, the DC school district permanently closed Spingarn citing declining enrollment and excessive costs associated with modernizing the old building. Since then, the school has been

abandoned

at the mercy of vandals and thieves of nature now we Venture inside to see what remains. This video is sponsored by audible.

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This glassware could have been so easy to auction and sell, but they didn't do it now. Everything is just breaking down here. It's a waste, so what school of gut diagram? A spectrophotometer to check transmittance, absorbance. concentration of any sample I guess it's not a thing where you turn on the light at individual wavelengths, yes, I remember in science class it feels like a long time ago an overhead projector, it's like a walk down the path of the memories that you thought were not 3D. Sir. Bowman is just a diagram, this is a skinny man, wow this looks like a greenhouse over here, that's pretty unique.

I don't think I've ever seen a greenhouse attached to a

high

school before all the fines coming in are pretty cool during the summer. This would be like completely green, you know all this trash here was from students, yeah, sticking it in little holes and stuff, yeah, all the pens and pencils that fall into the cracks and never come back, it's a big school, ooh, what? what's in this room? the door is not a nasty job, it's not a fucking mechanical rubber dome, it could have been like some athletic therapy, yeah, because it said something as athletic as the door, yeah, this could be like, oh, this is a system Isokinetic rehab also called therapy, maybe you saw psi pressure Cybex or Tron. - strange, yes, this is definitely physiotherapy for school athletes.

Wow, there's an X right here. Oh, look at the gym. There's a boy with a rope right here. Jesus looks like Michael Jackson. He is dressed in a school uniform. That's more uniform or something. I feel like you wouldn't see something like that in a

high

school gym these days for liability reasons, so everyone happily sues. High's basketball program actually had a rich history and was known for producing talented NBA Hall of Fame players like Elgin Baylor and Dave Bing once played on this same court, okay, now you're moving somewhere else from school. I want to find a room with all the desks arranged.

I hope it's Oh vulture that's already leaving, yeah. such a strange panel to have in a classroom, yeah yeah, what the heck is this in a classroom for supply and distribution? mg said this thing probably played when it was at Westinghouse, the elevated speed vaults below are silly graffiti, it says last day for seniors and a bunch of farewell notes kawaii piano the one in the auditorium said better maybe just because of the reverb is quite destroyed up here there is a single desk in this room still writing on the blackboard that looks like it was from school not scouts this almost feels like a library but it's not very impressive for a library, no wonder if this out, let's look at the map library, yes, it's a lot, this is a small library for such a big school.

I'm sure this message was really inspiring for students, it's very government-like and the wording sounds very legal. Damn, they really didn't want the kids touching the thermostat. It looks like a medieval torture device around the things in this window. It's interesting. Well, the cow looks like a good laboratory. My desk is knocked over. whatever it is all of this is still in good shape the variable voltage distribution is now part of the classroom or is this infrastructure for the school is it part of the classroom they probably needed different types of electricity yes, I moved here to this specific classroom probably a live electricity or something some kind of physics lab looks pretty old although they stabilized a lot of things in it doctor stuff says the poison surprises aren't all smashed like here anything else yeah, somehow way this room wasn't destroyed some kids know it's 2010 they made some pretty good notes later in the year their handwriting gets messier.

I would stop eating lunch, this whole thing is full of chemicals, so now we have the upper floor to check out and then if you go back to the basement, this classroom looks great. Through the window there is already a back light here that can identify which cards is pretty beat up. This is another one of these electrical control panels here, yeah, and each type of desktop probe allows things like this to connect to those probes. That's for variable. voltage distribution US Bureau of Mining Materials Research Wilhite spilled liquid something bathing they have always divided stairs like this in old schools probably one to go up and down between classes everything is going well this place is old school old school yeah , it's okay to have to go to the basement this is the chair, if you see, oh yes, there are a lot of desks, but this right here just gives me a lot of life in this room, like I can imagine all the children here on their last day, everyone excited writing, this is another photo session. rank like in high school in Detroit, maybe it wasn't that rare in the old schools, I guess only partly because I know our high school never did, I was never in JROTC, yeah, at our school, I was only once. or twice, but I never liked that the room itself didn't have it, it could be somewhere else, I don't know, but yeah, I doubt it would be.

You could see where the targets would come from the wall. I wonder if they were used as air. powerful rifles and BBS or what they were wearing here is the cafeteria like a damn here administrative resources office or some uniforms here these jackets and a lot of shoes for these uniforms were JROTC and all the name tags, all the shoes are still shiny . a nice layer of powder but you can still see the shine, yes this was like a beauty school, a beauty class salon, because look at the next room, cosmetology, that was the word I was looking for, this is great Oh yeah, shit, you're still here. some space, their weight rooms bigger than their cafeteria, again, they probably could have sold all of this if they had done it right since they closed it's too late now, some planning for the football team, ​It seems that when Spingarn closed in 2013, it was thought that it could eventually reopen as a vocational school or perhaps it could revert to being a secondary school when the number of students in the district increased, unfortunately that becomes more unlikely every day as the building continues to deteriorate thanks to audible for sponsoring. this audible video has an unrivaled selection of audiobooks original audios shows news and much more as a member you can choose three titles each month one audiobook and two exclusive audible originals and even if you cancel you can keep your own audiobook library forever and you can listen to it again .

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