Abandoned Clothing Factory with everything left behind (closed 1980)

[@DarkExploration]

Thank you guys for the outstanding love and support always. This was an amazing example of a location being frozen In time and basically a museum ! I'm glad the kittens were saved and brought to loving homes! Enjoy your day and thanks for watching!

[@stomper2888]

your so welcome

[@LibbyMia-rz8gk]

i love these places and i also love the people who document them, (i live in uk so its hard to see these places first hand) but thanks to awesome people like yourself not just documenting these places but also finding out history putting your life on the line and being awesome in general really makes it worth the watch. thanks for another amazing premire buddy.

[@JK-dp6ye]

What State was this Factory in, or at least the general region? Fascinating! Thanks for documentation of this!

[@rosemarylopez5738]

I am so glad that you guys were exploring at that amazing old children’s clothing factory. Just like a museum frozen in time. I just love your video very interesting. I think those 3 beautiful kittens were either abandon by their Mom or got killed by a car. Anyway those precious 3 kittens left a week longer would have died of starvation. But I am very grateful and happy your friends came back and saved those kittens life’s and also found good and loving homes for the 3 kittens. You and friends are amazing and kind hearted guys! God bless you and your friends.

[@firemanfireman7228]

I enjoyed watching this old building Fireman 🔥🔥🔥

[@ncisfan78]

Thank you for checking on the kittens and so glad to hear they have homes now. They are truly beautiful kitties. You have such a good heart

[@joshuapaulsen7414]

Perfectly said. You wrote what I was thinking.

[@ncisfan78]

@@joshuapaulsen7414 this reminded me of when me and my dad heard some kittens meowing and turns out 4 kittens were left alone. Collected em and took care of them. 2 of them are in my parents house right now and the other two were adopted by friends of mine at work

[@LegS-fo3fb]

My favorite part of this explore. ❤❤❤❤

[@scottiehall8695]

Those sewing and cutting machines really aren't outdated. Manufacturing clothes hasn't changed much over the years, it's just been sent to countries that do it much cheaper. Any of those sewing machines could be cleaned and oiled and put right back to work.

[@kristensorensen2219]

Slave like foreign labor is the problem! We have no idea where our consumer products come from except China now makes everything!

[@pamfay3834]

I love them!!

[@lindsey51]

Thank you so much for having such a good heart and taking the time to check on the kitties. So happy they all have a loving home now!!

[@susancross5192]

Thank you for rescuing those beautiful kittens! Their mom had to have been a great mom for them to have been so healthy. Hope she`s doing ok. Praying for her. I`m sure she`d be happy her babies are safe.

[@Grandmasterrett]

As a lifelong seamstress, I cannot believe the amount of collectable and valuable items left behind. I would kill for one of those old sewing machines! Very, very sad…yet interesting. Hope someone goes in and rescues some of that glorious sewing memorabilia.

[@TheBinsQueen]

thank you so much for saving the kittens! 😭😭😭 they were so precious. I am so happy someone went back to check on them and you guys found them homes.

[@lissanne9769]

Those machines you showed at the start are large irons. They could press out wrinkles in an entire garment just with a pull down of the arm. Working in these places was difficult. The pay was low for the skills needed to sew the garments. This was a wonderful experience to see. Thank you so much for the video.

[@billstill1794]

Bless you for caring for those kittens!

[@deborahkimball-billups6405]

Thanks for the update on the kittens....very nice of you . Thank you

[@ceceliacorigliano1784]

Hang Ten wore that brand in high school late 70's. The office with posters the guy wearing the jacket with the mustache is Tom Selleck. Great explore!!

[@SunLightFawn]

Rick Springfield is the other poster guy! ;-)

[@rosemarylopez5738]

Cecelia Corigliano: I knew that was Tom Selleck when I first saw his old poster

[@rosemarylopez5738]

@@SunLightFawn I already knew that!

[@stanedgie5910]

@@rosemarylopez5738 well i am sure there are other folks who didnt know.

[@stanedgie5910]

@@rosemarylopez5738 good for you.

[@emily76m]

Cats AND abandoned 80’s time capsule!? ❤ guess I’m done looking at KZbin for today you win! Thank you!

[@jenniferherrington]

Those spools pf old thread are beautiful. The old sewing machines are an amazing find!

[@BloodRaven1969]

The explore was good, since I grew up with a seamstress mom, but the care and concern for the kittens was just great. As was the news they have homes now. Take care, be safe, and keep being the good people you are!

[@ms.michele6864]

The part with showing the kitten love was heartwarming and definitely giving this a thumbs up! Great video!!😻

[@Shramorama123]

Most of these places make me think “wow, what a waste” but this one hits so much harder… the machines and threads would be 100% usable today if they hadn’t decayed. Potential to make so much clothing… Even squatters could’ve made their own clothes in this building. It’s sad seeing food, homes and toys, lost, feels worse seeing timeless resources go unused.

[@eily_b]

The threads wouldn't be usable after 40 years. They get brittle over time and would rip. They should have sold/auctioned it off/given all the the threads and fabric away when it closed down.

[@edwinalasal9114]

I had a job interview scheduled in VA in 1986. The day before interview I was told the were closing. Sad day when textiles left the south

[@JohnShinn1960]

😆 12:42 Thanks for the tour Devin! A good one! 👍👍👍👍

[@LisaNelsonSnugglebunny]

Glad the kittens found homes + the tour was great, what a big ass building!!!

[@Petertronic]

Thank you for the explore and for caring for those cute kitties

[@johnnyjoey]

I find your explores are amongst the most interesting on the internet! You seem to find places that capture past moments in time. Almost like travelling back in time! A lot of sites focus on decay which doesn’t show you as much as mostly preserved locations like this!

[@Artemisa_Art_Conservation]

What stunning places do you found. This is really woooaaaa! Thank you for your detail and polite explorations.

[@LexSkunk96]

Bless you for helping the kittens. Actually teared up and warms my heart so much they’ve gone to loving homes. Awesome video too I love these so much, they bring such a weird mix of eeriness, nostalgia in some parts and tranquility.

[@heatherl.7909]

The mother cat is probably feral and wouldn't be seen much. A live trap would help catch her. She seemed to have been taking care of the kittens. Maybe an animal rescue could be notified about her.? Thanks for an amazing video and for caring about the kittens. You film very well with no fast movement of the camera or changing scenes. I enjoy all your videos!

[@kookytoots6755]

Been binge watching your videos ever since I found your channel. So respectful and fantastically shot, keep up the great work

[@TheNester.]

Those long flat machines were pressers/irons. The hoses connected to them carried water to make steam to steam iron the clothing. The second machine was a button hole maker and those vintage "Union Special" power sewing machines are worth some money. Up to $4-5 thousand each! The stuff you kept calling "twine" is just thread. And the kittens were in a buggy full of rolls/spools of elastic band.

[@jeffclark3924]

Thanks for opening that present. My curiosity was getting the best of me.

[@samorayee420]

Don't know how to say thank you and don't how to say so much great full of you . When I see the kitten suddenly my heart start betting so fast . All the kittens are very very much healthy and very much lovely . I wish anyone who rescue feed them take care of them like their own kids . Dark exploration we respect very much . Special greeting from Iceland

[@Mizz.Person]

I loved all the colourful spools of thread. What a neat explore!

[@alliehearst4862]

Super talented . Watching you and your channel grow simultaneously is a pleasure , keep going

[@neta565]

The kittens are so cute!😍

[@derbydriver]

I really appreciate that you and the other urbex KZbinrs are capturing these pieces of history before they’re permanently erased. This building clearly doesn’t have much time left, and it couldn’t just ended up another pile of debris with most people having no idea what it once was.. but with videos like this, everyone gets to learn and appreciate another piece of nearly forgotten manufacturing history of the US. Also, it’s possible that someone who worked here may stumble across this video someday, having not seen the inside of this building in 40 years.

[@dennisud]

What a find and so old at least where there wasn't much in the way of vandals! Great to see those 3 kittens get home and please continue this documentation with your videos will be all that is left at the end.

[@aftermidnight8513]

Very kind of you all to rescue the kittens, much love from Australia. Love your work. 🙏 Thankyou

[@bstirling6892]

Great explore guys, an amazing building such a shame its been abandoned 30/40 years! The sweet little kittens that you saved and got rehomed that's so sweet.

[@moonwalker091000]

Another great explore. So happy the kittens all got a good home. Thanks for taking care of them. :o)

[@jamesluke6603]

Thanks for updating us about the 3 kittens and there are rescued and in a loving home.

[@mht5875]

Fascinating on a personal level - in 1986 I got my first job working in retail for a fabric store whose headquarters were based in Pennsylvania - in 1993 they closed a bunch of stores located on the east coast of the nation. Hard to believe that garment factories still existed in the USA back then. Seeing all those industrial-sized spools of thread made just for those sewing machines brings back memories. I am surprised the factory equipment was not auctioned off? Some of those sewing machines command high prices today. Thanks for the memories!

[@christinabeasley]

You are amazing your videos are great and you are so loving and compassionate !! Forever a fan!❤

[@mancima]

Awesome explore. What a time capsule! The office with the Tom Selleck and Rick Springfield posters (yes they had Rick Springfield posters) dates it to the mid eighties. I can almost hear the gravelly voiced secretary tapping away at her IBM selectric and cutting it up with the other gals. Super cool.

[@combatgirl38]

I never ever use this term, but what an absolute Treat it was to be taken a long for this excellent explore! Of course I was dying over all of the industrial stools and all of the machine era work gear still being utilized from open to close without need to replace anything. I worked on the dock at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and that location that opened in 1983 when the original 1900 building was sold to developers. The desk that the Load Leads used to keep paperwork on was obviously new to the plant when it opened. Totally 80's style and dinged to shit with the entire flimsy side panel missing, likely from a loaded cart full of newspaper bundles hitting it just once. All those old tanker desks made out of steel were in fine working order in the footage you showed, just dusty and paint chipped. The Tribune kept all of the long tables and other various carts in the news production room, and I spent my first month hunting down as much history as I could find because it was surreal working at a plant that was already dead on its feet. We printed the St.Paul Pioneer Press, FFS!! That would be like the Bears practicing in Lambeau Field. Anyway, with how the yuppies have eaten up the whole industrial chic BS, you'd think that places like this would have been wiped out by now. Gross places like Restoration Hardware charge $400 for the backed stools you could see all over that awesome factory. It's apparent that woman ran the offices in that place, because I can't see too many men putting up Teen Beat posters of Rick Springfield (of Jesse's Girl songwriting fame) and Tom Selleck during his Magnum PI prime!! Flipping Awesome! Hang Ten was a Massive brand in the 80's. I'm surprised to see they had a small division there. We really Do need to bring back industry to this country. Not only are we supporting child and slave wage labor, we're openly ignoring the fact while doing so. It would be one thing if we all used AliExpress and bought directly from the slave drivers, but no-we don't trust the quality of foreigners like that so instead we idiotically pay Jeff Besos at Amazon and pay middleman for the exact same product from the same factories, but the slaves working at the warehouses are Americans. We take the "As long as it's not me." attitude about that. Americans like to work with their hands and have a tangible sense of accomplishment after a day's work and computer jobs don't give that to anyone but the CEO's taking in the lion's share of the profits. This was hands down the best, most satisfying video I've seen on KZbin in over a year. Thank you for providing such great content. It's your appreciation for the best aspects of each explore that lines up so well with what I look for that keeps me coming back. Even if you Do keep calling thread 'fabrics'. 🤣 And thank you for being logical about those kittens! I was hoping you'd leave them for their mother because they were obviously healthy but something could have happened to her and I'm so glad there was follow up and the necessary rescue in the end. An all around *perfect* video!

[@pamfay3834]

Omg! Me too! I’m like stalking the video over the sewing stuff! I sew and I sew by hand pretty much every day I was excited over the box of hooks and eyes lol and don’t get me going on the belt buckles!!!!❤

[@sharonjones7207]

I worked in a Sewing Factory right out of High School in the 70s. This brought back memories🧵

[@kedikadin-wr9sb]

thank you devin for saving the kitten😭😭 i really appreciate it💗 god bless you

[@carrieann1640]

Thank you for the cat update - they were stunning little guys. Also stunning were the colors of those cones of thread, as you pointed out. As to the Christmas present, no kid would want it, but that much tape would be a delight to anyone doing a lot of sewing. It could be used for ties, reinforcing seams, or maybe decoration. And I appreciated your closing remarks.

[@bobbobbers7486]

thank you for saving the kittens!!

[@malinikamalinika4654]

Hello from Russia ! 🤗🇷🇺 Like 560 from me.👍 Thank you for the video and thank you for saving little lives.🙏😺 You are great fellows ! 💪✊🤝👏😊😉😘

[@pikaluv43]

im glad the lovely little kitties were rescued ty for doing that GOD BLESS YOU

[@DecorByDaviana]

My favorite field trip growing up was the Lowell Mills- this reminds me of the mills and makes me so grateful they’re taken care of to this day 😊 anyone from MA whose seen the mills can agree they’re pretty spectacular

[@catb-w5212]

Oh you guys are so sweet the kittens 🐈🐈🐈were so cute so happy you found them ❤️🐈‍⬛ Melbourne Australia

[@BilisNegra]

So, for most of my life all that stuff has sat inert without moving an inch. Most of what I've been through has taken place while nothing happened there except for the slow decay. And I'm not even young. What a crazy thought.

[@cathie6606]

thank you for saving the kittens! i subscribed and have been sharing your channel all over the internet

[@jessicabeaber3528]

Loved the ferns growing in the offices!!😍

[@iamnyhtshade]

Thank you for the kitten update. Spicy little mittens but I'm glad they are getting a good home and a future

[@lotusdolphin]

That was really interesting. I loved the color dye. Lots of the yarn. Must have made some great shots. Great job in covering the whole warehouse. Like the car factories, everything just closed up and died when people left because of the economy. Not surprising to see all the machinery still left. Thank you guys for being so compassionate as to look out for the kitties. Taking it to the next level. Much respect. 💜🤗🥳🇺🇸

[@dv7548]

Dude you found a real gem in the hay stack.

[@pamfay3834]

Omg I want to go there so bad

[@bungeycord5971]

Im old enough to remember places like that. The pay was usually very low, and very unconfortable environment in which to work. Nice save on those kittens.

[@tankerman135]

wow! that took me back to 1982, when I worked in a sewing factory, prior to my entry into the USAF-Sept 82. The factory was the same age, but was torn down in the 90's. I would be all of 20 in 1982.....

[@justuseloveineverything7184]

Great content as always I love this channel and creator ❤️

[@roniconn1976]

Those thread colors are awesome among all of the decay

[@user-randi1987]

Good explore, interesting place. Nice job with the kittens, glad they all found good homes. Thanks, Devin

[@devastatedbaby]

Splendid job as always

[@lorijones8573]

Looked up Hang Ten clothing is Clothing store in 1960 and still in business. Cool.

[@pamfay3834]

I always had hang 10 clothes! They were striped I had no idea still in business!!

[@joangravel2436]

Awesome video good timing of saving the cats 🐈

[@garyjones2582]

Hang 10 was a surfers label for clothing.. nice video, thx for bringing us along...

[@MJARTBYDAY]

Hwy Devon ... what a wonderful cool place and I bet it was very noisy and busy in its day. It's a shame to think that there were workers in there at one time and now its derelict and abandoned. Thank you so much for showing us round ... what a cute kitty and you guys were so good with it, but it didn't want to come out bless it. You have such a big kind heart as you said you felt bad if some kids didn't get toys. You were also concerned about the cat too ... wow I bet your parents are proud of you as I am .... xxx

[@ricj7517]

Great video guys and be careful out there during your explorations..Love the kitties ✌

[@user-iamRobinV68]

Very cool clothing factory! Love the typewriter! Great explore as always 🥰🥰🥰

[@nataliesmith303]

The colours of the cottons looked so pretty against the dust and dirt. I’m sure glad the kitties were rescued 😊

[@denisesmith2745]

I wouldn’t have been able to sleep if I didn’t know the kittens are fine! Thank you so much and to your friends! I named them Winkin., Blickin and Nod. Great explore as always but so much more!!

[@whoizcaitlin_375]

It just surprises me that nobody has actually stolen anything from these abandoneded places. Im glad that some people are actually genrious enough to leave things from where they were

[@clintonneuhaus1818]

Great video brother! Glad to hear that the kittens were adopted.

[@kikibean2024]

This factory was a good choice. I also love the factory you vloged a coupleyears ago with all of the China left intact. The packets of gifts, Pollyanna joke gifts maybe? You two do a great job. Love your vibe.

[@joeperson4792]

One hot day a mama cat left her babies in an electronics lab at our school since a window was left open the previous night. The mama had left and the electronics department head came over and took all the kittens away. That same night (since it was an evening class) I noticed one small, black gray kitten a student from another class was carrying in a small box on the street car ride home. Most of those kittens I hope found a home that day.

[@ProbablyNotMothman]

I imagine that many of the poor children of the 70s/80s would have been more than thrilled to receive rolls of fabric and such for gifts. modifying your own clothing/ making clothes f0r your toys was common back then, and wabrics were not exactly cheap to come by..

[@carguy2327]

Awesome video! Btw after doing some research I think the place has been abandoned since 1996.

[@ScreaminEmu]

There's no way that plastic Playskool car is 40 years old, I had one just like it when I was a kiiiiiohhhhhmygod I'm pushing forty. 😮

[@rosemarycastronuovo6056]

Oh My Goodness!!! WHAT AN AMAZING FIND! Kinda made me Sad 😭 .... How American is such a throw away society!!! My children were just babies in the 80's... I was always checking for 2 and. Hand clothes.... Similar to the clothes in this factory.... What a great explore!😳😥❣️ Keep up the great work ❣️

[@orionfl79]

@18:52 - My goodness... A poster of Tom Selleck! I remember back in the 80's my dad's boss's secretary had one of him in a speedo on her wall. LOL

[@pamfay3834]

I would love this place I’m a seamstress and make belts and purses too Just looking around at the small stuff I would be having a field day!!! Like the hooks and eyes!!

[@brendakrieger7000]

Different, I like it. Glad to hear that the kittens are OK😻

[@tomartstone]

That is an Amazing explore thank you

[@johannahegarty3925]

I loved this explore and the cute kittens. Greetings from Co. Cork.

[@sherrytackett571]

New sub. here, love the explores. Thank you.

[@nicolepowell5470]

The spools of thread look beautiful. Love the poster of Tom Selleck in the office

[@pamfay3834]

Ohhhh I’m looking at Ricky. My crush! I probably had that poster!! He is so gorgeous!!!!

[@zacattack8795]

Love this video buddy and hope you are having a blessed day

[@sunlightangel87]

I'm so glad that you guys were able to help those kittens. I wonder if the mom left them behind and that's why you didn't see her.

[@CasperExplores]

Super nice! come to denmark my friend, we have alot of places here :)

[@carolkeable5018]

Lovely explore. Glad the kittens are out of there now.

[@DozaCraft]

20:12 I love this frame

[@braggelbak]

AMAZING!!!!

[@hunhun23]

@0:50 LOVE THE TOM SELLECK POSTER

[@pamfay3834]

Rick❤❤❤

[@LauraTuller]

Posters on the wall, Rick Springfield and Tom Selleck from early 80’s.

[@davestrang8585]

Amazing video and place

[@sueslkarr2771]

I grew up in a a small City at the time but there were a lot of shoe factories and they've all closed down and thank God they've taken those factories and turn them into apartments and condos. So at least the buildings aren't gone to waste. I can remember walking with my aunt to the shoe factory to help her carry home her boxes of stuff to do at the house. Then we walk them back so she could drop them off and pick up other pieces. Great memories of helping her put buckles together and whatnot at her kitchen table it taught me some good work ethics. Also my grandmother did piecemeal at another Factory highest paid there and was very proud. But I do agree with you that we need to bring things back stateside and start making our own stuff again. This is crazy that they sent everything to China years ago. And they wonder why so many people can't make it here in America. Just saying.

[@deniseboldea1624]

Those vines may look cool, but left unchecked they will help to expedite the building's destruction. The roots will find weak points in the mortar and burrow into it and expand. I remember seeing the Hang Ten Clothing line back in the day. I can't remember where though. What shut places like this down was simply Corperate Greed, China cares little about the health and safety of its own people, so yeah, they're willingness to keep the 19th century sweatshop ethic is what appealed to CEO'S. Those chickens have been coming home to roost for the past few years, and I have to admit that it brings a smile to my face watching those jerks trying to explain shortages to angry consumers. Kudos to your friends for rescuing the kitties, for future reference, feral cats become less dependent on thier mother's within 5 to six week's, most people who rescue feral cats prefer to get them around that age as it's still an easy time to socialize them and adopt them out. Chances are mom was probably already nearing another heat cycle and on the prowl for a mate.

[@hi.panorama]

So many people walk past this place every day - I wonder how many of them are aware that there are so many important remains within the walls of this dilapidated building, that the history of this building in general is so important and, in a way, ground-breaking, in terms of local industry and the consequences of its decline... or do they just pass by the building indifferently, unaware of anything.

[@thunderace3584]

Stop ---WAR--- Stop ---PUTIN---. This was so cool. So old... Nice find... Thank you. Greetings from Germany...

[@fatty3383]

Wow 😳 I'm surprised it's not been cleared out after all these years...that's amazing content 👍

[@dv7548]

Could that be an old union shop place. 1983. Just before companies made the mad dash out of the country and Americans lost their jobs. Walking thru American history.

[@fhwolthuis]

Great video and good job to rescue thosr cats ❤️👍🏻