What kills me is, we've had funding issues for decades now, with teachers feeling compelled to buy supplies for students out of their own pockets, but this school's district just left hundreds of perfectly good chairs, tons of furniture, and a giant hardwood gym floor to rot rather than selling them off. Bureaucracy at its finest.
@arizonaalchemy7572
Жыл бұрын
That is going on here in Arizona as well. I work for a major Office Supply Store chain. Our company tries to help out Teachers as much as we can. It is unreal that Teachers are buying supplies for their classrooms. So much of what I saw in there could have been re-allocated to other schools in the area. Just a shame.
@Twinjeremy
Жыл бұрын
And I bet you're still one of those that want the gov to run healthcare🙄. Gov fucks up everything
@LakeNipissing
Жыл бұрын
Chairs and furniture that were made in the USA !! All the new stuff they replace it with will come from China.
@TaylorMMontgomery
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure the district could probably be sued for this kind of stuff. Most cities and schools have in their charters or ordinances requirements to liquidate any end of life assets.
@Nomercy721
Жыл бұрын
if only schools would spend money on other things besides sports. at least from my experience, they spend more on new sports equipment and uniforms than on anything else
@sinformant
Жыл бұрын
So crazy how there are huge vacant buildings like this sitting around that could be utilized as youth centers, or housing for homeless veterans, etc
@radicalraccoon
Жыл бұрын
The issue with this is that resources would need to be allocated toward maintaining these properties, which would obviously be quite expensive. If not properly maintained, whomever owns the property would be liable for any accidents or exposure to harmful substances that may occur inside the property.
@sonata1618
Жыл бұрын
Morgan state university will purchase it and making it a satellite campus.
@aaron6431
Жыл бұрын
That's just not how it would ever work out.
@ksweeley
Жыл бұрын
Some more details regarding the future of this property: As Dan stated the building itself will be demolished because the city sold off the property to nearby Morgan State University who will demolish the building. MSU plans to build a satellite campus on the property. Some of the public art in this building is going to be saved by Morgan State University and from my understanding is going to be given back to the city. This school is huge, it had a large swimming pool as well that went into disrepair well before the school closure. It also had a large, beautiful auditorium, two gymnasiums and a state championship winning basketball team.
@zenithperigee7442
Жыл бұрын
@KunSun Sweeley, it's good to know that something good will be done with it! I hate that the video was cut short, it would've been great to see more of the school and I think Dan was right from the start. As soon as I saw the swaying lamp post, I thought it would've been perfect to explore at night, especially if the power was at least partially on & maybe that swaying lamp post was flickering.
@fuzzamajumula
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410
Жыл бұрын
Love the video, Dan. My mother & aunt were part of the first class to graduate from this school when the school first opened back in the 1970s.
@DanBellFilmIt
Жыл бұрын
Oh man. I LOVE your channel so much!!!
@volusian95
Жыл бұрын
The #1 channel for those seeking to be depressed and relaxed. Glad to see more exploration vids!
@dionysoscub
Жыл бұрын
This was a pleasant surprise, Dan. These exploration vids of yours are some of my favorites. Like a lot of folks in Baltimore I went to Saturday school here for a while back in the late 1980s.
@arizonaalchemy7572
Жыл бұрын
Agree, Dan does a great job with these. I Enjoy watching them. :)
@ksweeley
Жыл бұрын
Wow!!! This was the high school I went to. I was in the final graduating class of Lake Clifton/Eastern in 2003.
@gabriella-cosmicgirl7723
Жыл бұрын
Hello Dan. Great to see you doing explores again. I've been watching your videos since 2015,, I think. This reminds me of those early days 👍 You stood out from the rest 💙
@DanBellFilmIt
Жыл бұрын
Thanks babes!
@gabriella-cosmicgirl7723
Жыл бұрын
@@DanBellFilmIt ❤👍
@infowarriorone
Жыл бұрын
Nice. I needed a good dose of Dan Bell Urbex.
@Michator
Жыл бұрын
Perfect soothing voice! Miss this, but glad you're back with some more. Many thanks and look forward you your upcoming work 👍💪
@afbelardi
Жыл бұрын
You have no idea how excited I get when I see a new Dan Bell abandoned video or documentary was uploaded 🙌🏼
@mainstreet4252
Жыл бұрын
Me too😊
@heatherbates3790
Жыл бұрын
I unfortunately know nothing about cinematography or filmmaking but I appreciate seeing everything through this cameraman's eye. He has such a talent ❤
@CallMeMrX
Жыл бұрын
Man I missed these kind of explore videos, it's been the 'Sitting in car live chatting' for so long now.
@astralvirgin09
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Dan and Dillon! I absolutely love you 2! Keep up your amazing work!!
@l3umble.l3ee
Жыл бұрын
Love it, Dan! Quiet time is just what I need tonight
@DrewsAdventuresGo
Жыл бұрын
You 2 are so awesome and always give us the viewers the background story which is awesome too
@purpleplanet9000
Жыл бұрын
I remember hearing that in the past, there was a lake here at one point ;but it was removed. This school and the park nearby were built on top of the drained lake. I heard that over the years this building was sinking due to issues with moisture underneath. My mom went to this school for 2 years before transferring
@purpleplanet9000
Жыл бұрын
There are a few photos of the lake and people swimming in the 1920s
@billybarnett2846
Жыл бұрын
It wasn't removed, they filled it in. There's also a public golf course. One of the annual band competitions was held there when I was in high school in the 80s.
@carolinewaite7185
Жыл бұрын
I was missing you like mad and this came up on the top of my KZitem page. Thank you for this great mooch around the old school very interesting. Amazing it was the largest high school once. Alot of players produced there. X
@kranibal
Жыл бұрын
This is Christmas in April!!!! Greatest KZitem gift for 2023!!! Thanks Dan!
@ericdravenX00X
Жыл бұрын
Im glad u stood in the doorway at 1:24 long enough to catch a shot of those colored staind glass windows. I don't know why but for some reason, the Shot at 1:24 along with the Glare from the Stained Glass Windows...
@BrightSunFilms
Жыл бұрын
Love it!
@AbandonedExplorationUrbex1979
Жыл бұрын
I'm confused about something, So they have security day and night but they haven't sealed up the entry points of the building to prevent anyone from going in?
@DanBellFilmIt
Жыл бұрын
Right? I was wondering that too!
@Rebelnightwolfe
Жыл бұрын
YOOOOOOO!!!!!! I used to attend that school when it was two full high schools Heritage High School #425 the one I attended and Doris M. Johnson #426. As well as a small middle school called "REACH! Partnership School" actually reopened in 2004 with those schools, I believe and I attended it from 2008-2011. "Lake Clifton" as a school that used the entire building closed in 2003. AMA!
@Rebelnightwolfe
Жыл бұрын
The side of the school Dan explores in the video are in the middle of the building- closer to the Doris M. Johnson side where the main entrance is located. We as students didn't use it at all. We entered at the "wing" doors where the classrooms are located since it would take up to 5 minutes, depending on what floor and wing your class was in to get to. The main entrance is located near the gyms and auditorium. The library which was rebuild before my time attending there was rebuilt after a fire, is located on the other side of the hallway where the two lunchrooms are. Our schools lunchroom schedules were 3 hours apart so that students from each side never saw each other.
@Rebelnightwolfe
Жыл бұрын
Each school had four wings and three floors for classes. One floor is a basement level with smaller windows. Each wing was themed in different color motifs, Blue, Yellow, Green and Brown as this was the color used for the lockers in each wing on every floor. At the end of each wing there are staircases. One of which leads to the main entrance driveway where we would take MTA provided buses to get to and from school. Our school mascot was a Dolphin and Panther. I still have my school ID's! The bus lines were: Heritage Highschool - #19 to State Center, #22 to Mondawmin Doris M. Johnson - #8 to Hunt Valley, #22 to Bayview Doris M. Johnson Let out 50 minutes after our school. They also let in an hour later than us. I would walk up to Harford Rd as the buses tended to get crowded fast if you weren't fast out the door. Between each wing was a "common" area where we would all converge to transit to different wings of the school to get to classes. Each commons area had bathrooms in the middle and benches for students to rest on. The school wasn't bad. We only had one incident of a student from the Doris M. Johnson side who was brandishing a knife and we went on lockdown for an hour. The only teacher I remember from those days is Jacqueline McKenna who was my AP-Statistics teacher.
@kishonna78
Жыл бұрын
I am sooo happy that you were able to get to film my old high school
@technologic21
Жыл бұрын
Something sad about seeing a school this way, but your quiet time narration makes it reflective, calming. Amazing work S.T.A.L.K.E.R. !
@BluetheRaccoon
Жыл бұрын
I think I went to Saturday school here in 2002 so I could pass algebra II. Edited to add: 6:48 yep! That strange mural and red tiled wall are the part of the school we went to. Yep! I remember this. Wow, it's been twenty years.
@Rebelnightwolfe
Жыл бұрын
Fellow alum! I attended from 2008-2011!!
@Twinjeremy
Жыл бұрын
@@Rebelnightwolfe thought he said it closed in 2003?
@purpleplanet9000
Жыл бұрын
@Jeremy-gr1mr I believe the school reopened but they moved to a different building years later
@ohjoy6
Жыл бұрын
Happy to see you again, Dan. Miss your Saturday night jaunts. Especially driving through Leakin Park, those scare me like nothing else.
@evanmcroberts5427
Жыл бұрын
Just got back from exploring that building. I must say it was a treat. Most places I’ve explored around here in MD have been totally wrecked or just purely taken over by nature. Interestingly there are a few wings of the building that are virtually un touched, only levels of interaction are clearly contractors and or BCPS personnel clearing out rooms of trash and other items for future de construction… obvious scrappers have been all over the building. The structure has suffered from what appears to be two separate fires. Also PAY ATTENTION when near the auditorium, there is strong evidence of current squatter activity. Still plenty of stuff to see in there, I suppose it’ll slowly be gutted before demo but honestly I believe that building had tons of potential left in it. It is pretty amazing how some areas of the school are pretty far beaten up while others are virtually un touched ..access to the building is easy, of course do the right thing, don’t tear stuff up. And also as mentioned above beware of potential squatters Also there is a wing to the east of the building look on the map and it’s dead north of the old tennis courts BEWARE there is some kind of natural gas leak, strong Odor of gas on the 1st/2nd floors.
@amalsinkarina447
Жыл бұрын
Looking to go soon, when did you visit, was it hard to get in?
@Fragrantbeard
Жыл бұрын
Did you call in the gas leak? Please do. It's so dangerous.
@Dee12327
Жыл бұрын
Glad that your doing exploration videos again Dan, love your channel!
@DubsStop
Жыл бұрын
It's so baffling to me that cops waste resources on coming to a place like this when it's a dime a dozen in Baltimore. Or that there's security. Anyway, thanks for the video Dan!
@PrimateProductions
Жыл бұрын
Well yeah if they are going to demolish it anyways then what are they doing?
@VeganAtheistWeirdo
Жыл бұрын
They might be a paid "detail" for the building/campus. Did you ever wonder about how some big events have police already on site, just acting as security? It's because they can accept "assignments" like this. Not saying that was definitely the deal with these guys, just speculating.
@PrimateProductions
Жыл бұрын
@@VeganAtheistWeirdo right...like they offer up side jobs to the cops and they can choose to take it outside of their scheduled work hours, right?
@DubsStop
Жыл бұрын
@@VeganAtheistWeirdo That makes sense I guess considering they're in a "police" truck but said the property belongs to us.
@tzzz7
Жыл бұрын
Where I live, it's common to salvage building materials from wrecking ball destined buildings for resale. Gym and bowling alley floors are prized for the hard , durable wood. I hope this place is gutted before demolition. To not repurpose buildings is such a shame and waste.
@jodywoodruff6473
Жыл бұрын
Your videos are so relaxing. ☺️
@peytonweb
Жыл бұрын
Oh thank GOD, I was having serious DAN BELL withdrawals!!😅
@VirginiaWolf88
Жыл бұрын
Nice Dan!!! Wild how the imagery stirs up memories.
@uries_bleach4472
Жыл бұрын
oh wow, what a pleasant surprise ! me and my partner really wanted to check this place out in november, and drove hours to do so. sadly for us, every entrance was completely sealed and bolted up at the time. crazy the door was just wide open back there ! we had to have tried every door and window on the place lol. just the humbling, and unfortunate truth sometimes when it comes to having urbex as a hobby; sometimes places just aren’t accessible, and others, they are. still a bit sad about it, but i’m glad you got in !
@margheritaf561
Жыл бұрын
Urban explore with a quiet time tone to it = heaven.
@LordKoehler
Жыл бұрын
Great. I have missed your urban explorations.
@lanneren
Жыл бұрын
Im glad they let you be on your way and you didn't get in trouble, Dan, love the video!
@EricLDC
Жыл бұрын
Miss the creepy ghosts hunts and urbex you do. Thanks for this
@carolinewaite7185
Жыл бұрын
It's only Dan and Dillon, the cop is saying scratching his head!😂
@KilerReviews
Жыл бұрын
glad to see content like this back again! i was literally just in baltimore, crazy.
@darnellleake405
Жыл бұрын
This was my high school. Class of 2002. So sad.
@laurastrobel718
Жыл бұрын
That was quite a high school. Thanks for showing what you could.
@kristoferkoessel4354
Жыл бұрын
Wow man those shots of stained glass are really cool, you can actually see the light from the camera refract onto the walls and stuff.
@fratercontenduntocculta8161
Жыл бұрын
This place closed a year after I graduated High School myself. My school however is quite still in use down here in FL. Thanks for taking us along Dan!
@VampireOnline
Жыл бұрын
That was great! Would love to see the police interaction! I did love how it ended on “we’re just taking pictures” though!
@ed10523
Жыл бұрын
Dan....I Missed that Velvety Voice. Looking Forward to Much More.
@goblinisland
Жыл бұрын
yay!!! thanks for another great exploration video. Been watching for years. Your channel never disappoints.
@dixieabattoir5201
Жыл бұрын
I really enjoy these. Stay safe!
@Modern_Nostalgia
Жыл бұрын
you only covered 10 percent of this place? wow, im so glad you got the gym on camera. you made the absolute best of your short time there
@LadyLakeMusic
Жыл бұрын
Love it. Much like the style of Keough.
@lindasmith2184
Жыл бұрын
So good to see you guys!❤
@LakeNipissing
Жыл бұрын
Would be awesome if you could return here and do more in depth video of this huge place before it is torn down!!
@afterthestorm221
Жыл бұрын
Feels like old times, Dan!
@chrisw443
Жыл бұрын
Those cops seemed completely not bothered when they saw you and camera and were like oh just a weird video guy lol.
@eazy8544
Жыл бұрын
I used to play AAU basketball there. Sad to see it just left there like that.
@goldenagenut
Жыл бұрын
That place is a gold mine. Those stainless cafeteria/restaurant tables and carts are not cheap! So much to salvage, what a waste.
@Michigan1985
Жыл бұрын
aBaNdOnEd FoR dEcAdEs!!!111!! Closed down the year I graduated from high school. That hit hard. 👴
@smorris281
Жыл бұрын
Its mind blowing how a school district can just close a perfectly good school, and even if it does need some repairs due to age or whatever, just fix it! They just sell it and these schools just rot away. Plus, if they do close a school, why not help out the taxpayers by selling off the equipment and furniture inside if they are not going to use it anymore. Its just crazy.
@purpleplanet9000
Жыл бұрын
The school was built over a drained lake and the building was sinking. Hopefully morgan state can build a modern building and maybe repair the land underneath so it doesn't happen again
@IkeExploring
Жыл бұрын
Damn you didn't get to see the pool or the auditorium or the Library. 😥
@kizzume
Жыл бұрын
Great video. I'm glad you didn't run into real trouble at the end. Or so it seems anyway..
@camban
Жыл бұрын
Thanks DB. Another example of the wastefulness & destructiveness of humankind. This one worse too because it was taxpayers money that built this. Nobody repurposes these buildings anymore, just smash ‘em up and tear ‘em down. Given the dismal state of education, it should still be in use as a school!
@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
Жыл бұрын
Fabulous to see a video from you. Such a shame security turned up but at least we got to see something there 😊
@goblinkwain
Жыл бұрын
Oooh I didn’t expect the quiet time narration. A pleasant surprise!
@healix8526
Жыл бұрын
"The property belongs to us," is such a cop thing to say.
@RobotWillie
Жыл бұрын
I took home economics in Jr. High, 7th grade, not in high school itself, and that would have been 2003-2004 when I was in 7th grade the same year this school closed. I am in Spokane,Washington where in the main district here when I went only did 7th and 8th Jr. High, but about 5 years ago or something they changed it so 6th graders go to it too now which is the way it was when my mom went, hers was the last class that went into Jr. High for 6th then for like 40 some odd years including when I went it was K-6 Elementary school and 7-8 Junior High, now its back to 6-8 Junior High. I remember there were 2 teachers who taught it at that school and I was lucky and got the woman who didn't make you carry a flour baby around to demonstrate what being a parent was like but the other teacher did and I felt so lucky and hated the idea of having to do that. And I remember in high school seeing kids carrying them around at certain points too, so I would imagine Home EC was also a 9th grade thing you could take at high school if it wasn't something you got credit for in 7th or 8th. I was in high school from 2005-2009. Anyways you mentioning the schools history of producing NBA level talent is sort of sad in reflection when you go into the gym and see what the court looks like and all the colors and the name of the team and you think thats where those people honed those skills and practiced them and discovered their talents. One of the buildings at my high school was torn down shortly after I graduated that I had classes in, but they expanded and remodeled the main building and made a larger parking lot where the other building was, and I hated math and thats what most of the classes I took were when I went into the outlying building. So I don't miss it so much, lol. It was a cool tan brick building that had been another small school at one point before the high school was built next to it, then when the high school was built the other school built a new one at another location and the high school started using it. I know one of the things in it was driving class when my brother who is 7 years older went there, but when I went driving class wasn't around anymore the state got rid of driving class in public schools between when he went and I went.
@mb3558
Жыл бұрын
Just love that coloured textured glass in the cafeteria 👍
@ashleyswshr
Жыл бұрын
How does a school district have the money to just abandon an entire school? this seems like a misappropriation of funds to me. Tax dollars wasted. A shame.
@heatherconway4975
Жыл бұрын
Sad, whatever classroom dscussion left on the chalkboard will be gone forever on demo. Good you caught it on camera.
@CCMqueretaro
Жыл бұрын
Great to see you back at it.
@matthewfarmer2520
Жыл бұрын
Hi Dan thanks for sharing, your a beautiful man. Happy Easter 🐰🐣 take care and stay safe. Hi there Dillon 👋
@kimberleywright3277
Жыл бұрын
This is incredible! What a great find! I love it xxxxx🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
@elsekruls6885
Жыл бұрын
Thank YOU .. Dan Bell
@rosemaryangela1825
Жыл бұрын
Dan- so glad you’re back doing the work u do best! Keep it up - more dead motels please!
@aYetiAteMySandwich
Жыл бұрын
Love the chill vibe! Great video ❤️.
@SuperPrezton
Жыл бұрын
Always a good day when a new Dan Bell is out!
@brianjones8882
Жыл бұрын
Wow I drive past their multiple times a week and had no idea it was closed down.
@AbandonedExplorationUrbex1979
Жыл бұрын
I was wanting the video to be a few minutes longer to hear the outcome of the police situation.
@terabbs
Жыл бұрын
Guess Dan didn't notice the way to new security camera. At 7:27 at the right you can see a dome type camera that definitely didn't exist in 2003. Still interesting to see what you could see till they showed up. I know I been in plenty of abandoned schools here as a teen. In the 80's there where to many school buildings here as all the boomers where gone from school and the second wave made bythe boomers.
@Hexam9
Жыл бұрын
I think, next time, parking off the property is in order, as not to attract attention. Great video, Dan.
@limjahey9244
Жыл бұрын
I love the calm ASMR like narration you add on, it makes your videos extra relaxing.
@superwin9000
Ай бұрын
This is a pretty cool video, its like a time capsule into my childhood.
@juancho420
Жыл бұрын
I love this stuff classic DB in all its glory ❤
@THE_DOC_RAD
Жыл бұрын
Great video. Maybe it's just me, but even though this school was closed down 20 years ago, it still seems quite "modern". Just appears to be a terrible shame and quite a waste to meet the wrecking ball....
@TheAwesomeOne1979
Жыл бұрын
That school was still open a couple of years ago it was called Reach. Unless they only used have of the school. They moved to the school right across Clifton park
@brendakrieger7000
Жыл бұрын
Urbex ASMR! Thanks for the tingles Dan 🥰
@urbanarcheology7346
Жыл бұрын
What a amazing place to explore! Thanks for sharing! Just subscribed to your channel. Keep up the great work! 🤘😎
@ctbrown9949
Жыл бұрын
This is the Dan I love!!!!!!
@brickfacem109r9
Жыл бұрын
My old school, hate to see it like this. C/O 88. Last time I was in the gym was 2012 watching my nephew hoop. I walked those halls with Thomas Jordan
@glennsmith3303
Жыл бұрын
Alumni is NBA players - says a lot about this school. No engineers, scientists, mathematicians, tradesman, etc..,. We need to call in an airstrike on Baltimore, of course, inform you Mr. Bell, prior to the attack so you can escape.
@Robert-ws3mk
Жыл бұрын
For being abandoned so long it's really not in bad shape, they don't build schools like this anymore..
@marysalmon2367
Жыл бұрын
"during this escape" had me dying.
@synth5091
Жыл бұрын
Amazing as always!
@dan-a-vee1484
Жыл бұрын
I remember my school district doing home economics in 2008-10, it was my advisory class. But I think they did it when I was in high school too. I took 3 cooking classes in high school, so they probably did.
@watchthis007_
10 күн бұрын
that building has not completely abandoned since 2003, i used to have Basketball games in both gyms growing up around 2007-2009. The rest of the school was pretty much closed off
@tonycheatham7719
Жыл бұрын
I am proud to say that my alma mater Morgan State University has purchased the area/school and will have it demolished in order to build a research park and satellite campus. Continue to excel MSU!
@Leoego
5 ай бұрын
Baltimore is notorious for closing schools instead of fixing and renovating. Lake was a huge high school.
@omg.sparkles
6 ай бұрын
for being closed in 2003, it's in way better shape than alot of abandoned school videos I've seen within the US. Even some that closed around 2010, the damage here isn't nearly as bad.
@michellesmallwood0513
Жыл бұрын
Hey Dan the school just recently became vacant maybe a year or 2 ago. I graduated in 05 as the last class of the actual Lake Clifton. The building had other schools inside until a year or two ago. Not sure where you got that information from about the school closing in 03 but it’s inaccurate.
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