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Solitary Places: Photographs by Jonathan Haeber

Jonathan Haeber first picked up a photography at the age of 16. His work has appeared in CollegeBound Magazine, National Geographic News, the Daily Californian, Amsterdam-based TED, and a high school Civics textbook. Inspired partly by his senior thesis on the history of miniature golf, he's embarked on a project to catalogue abandoned structures across the West Coast. See more of his work at http://www.chronicas.com

segrgated sulpher

Segregated Sulphur
Byron Hot Springs first broke ground in 1878 and over time was frequented by celebrities like Charlie Chaplin and Clark Gable. The “Black Sulfur Springs” were used for bathing. When the waters of “Surprise Spring” were drunk, they had a strong (perhaps surprisingly strong) diuretic effect.



Lucifer's Loo

Lucifer's Loo
An outlying cabin bathroom at Byron Hot Springs. The resort was perhaps best known for its conversion into a Top Secret World War II-era prison camp for high-ranking German and Japanese officers in the 1940s. This cabin was likely living quarters for prisoners or military support staff.



Look but Don't Touch

Look but Don't Touch
The Fort Ord stockade was the location of a prison "mutiny" in 1968. The "Fort Ord 14" protested inhumane conditions and the murder of Richard "Rusty" Bunch, a prisoner in the Presidio base in San Francisco. Prisoners faced hard labor and a charge of mutiny for standing up for fair treatment in the brig.



Cell Block C

Cell Block C
The Medium Security block of jail cells at the abandoned Fort Ord Military base. Many of the prisoners were minorities or mentally ill, just returning from Vietnam; suicide rates in the prison were incredibly high. At the Presidio stockade to the North, there were as many as 60 suicide attempts for a total prison population of 115.

 

 
 
 
 
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