Cheri Sundra--Guerrilla Historian

Table of Contents

Guerrilla History

Table of Contents

DRIVE-IN OF THE DAMNED

1.  The Abandoned Moonlite Drive-In

It’s the end of the world as we know it

WELCOME TO THE ZOMBIE HOTEL

The Hotel Sterling

1. The UnDead Days Part 1: An Introduction

Built during the Golden Era of Luxury Hotels, the long abandoned Hotel Sterling languishes in a state of condemnation and ruin in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

2. The UnDead Days Part 2: HELP! We’ve Created a Zombie Hotel

A Mr. Peanut / Che Guevara / Hotel Sterling / Zombie / Urban Exploration Mashup!

3. (Video) As The Vultures Picked Her Bones

An Unemployed Zombie Building Infiltration Specialist Production

GHOST  TOWN: Concrete  City

Wanted: a roving band of marauders

1. Post-Apocalyptic Chic Ghost Town: Concrete City

Abandoned in 1924, Concrete City is said to be the first example of modern-day cookie-cutter or tract housing

2. Spontaneous Acts of Art: Concrete City Ruins

See how hopeless abandonment has become a frequently changing urban art gallery

3. (Video) Post-Apocalyptic Chic “Concrete City”

An Unemployed Zombie Building Infiltration Specialist Production 

THE BATTERED CORPSE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA

At the Scranton Lace Company, the workers were told mid-shift

that the factory was closing “effective immediately”

1. A Visual Autopsy of the American Dream

A  pictorial essay about the abandoned Scranton Lace Factory

2. The UE Magazine Interviews: SCRANTON LACE FACTORY

Taking one of NEPA’s most infamous locations to an international audience!

3. The Sexy Side of Abandonment: Scranton Lace Pin-Up Girls

A whole lot of sex goes on within those dark, sticky and usually moist spaces

TWISTED METAL: Huber Breaker Ruins

A  long decaying carcass of America’s industrial decline

1. Take a Peek Inside the Huber Breaker Ruins

More insight into the ravages of time than you can hope to absorb in one visit

2. The Art of Industrial Decay

See what happens when artists look for beauty in industrial abandonment

3. The Huber Breaker Rocks –with ASTORIAN STIGMATA

Putting a new “spin” on a popular local historical location….

ESP

Visit a haunting world of  empty guard towers and crumbling cellblocks in Philly

1.  Haunted ESP (ghost on film)

Visit one of “the most haunted places on earth”

2. The Eye of God and The Mad Chair  

Where prisoners were subjected to physical and psychological torture

3. The Ghost of Gangster’s Paradise   

Al Capone’s reign at ESP

4. The Ghost Cats

FORSAKEN FAMILY FUN

Before the days of the corporate owned and operated mega theme park,

families brought the fun for other families right into their own backyard

1. An American Eulogy: Angela Park

The abandoned amusement park of your childhood memories

2. Hanson’s Amusement Park: Abandoned but Not Forgotten Ruins

3. The Abandoned Picnic Grove Of The Soul

4. Lost History: Croop’s Glen

Sometimes, history gets lost. And I don’t mean long ago, far away history like those places or events that are ancient, but the history of less than a hundred years ago right outside your own front door.

a. Lost History Found : Croop’s Glen

b. ***NEW UPDATES for: “Lost History Found : Croop’s Glen

c. And They All Came Tumbling Down

The Baby Contest Pavilion Collapse at Croop’s Glen

IMAGINATION CAPTURED: ABANDONED ZOO

This is the topic that started my fascination with abandonments and “lost” history

1. KIRBY PARK ZOO RUINS ? !—Ooops! Maybe not……

Abandoned bathroom or zoo ruin?  Decide for yourself…..

a. A Monkey in the Colliery, The Bear From Vaudeville & Politics of An Eagle: The Rise and Fall of the Kirby Park Zoo

The lives of the animals of the “lost” Kirby Park Zoo

2. The Kirby Park Zoo–An Unrealized Vision

a. Nay Aug Park Zoo

In Scranton, Pennsylvania, this now unused structure has been a symbol of community debate about animal cruelty for decades

3. Kirby Park Ruins: The Video

Over the decades, a sense of mystery has slowly enveloped the Kirby Park Ruins, blurring the line between fact and urban legend. Take a video tour and see for yourself what people are talking about!

a. Kirby Park: Walk With History Along The Olmsted Trail

Explore the Central Park / Kirby Park connection

MISCELANEOUS RUINATION    

1. The House of Fans

Another relic left behind from the long defunct coal mining industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania

2. DEATH AND TAXES: Even the Dead Can’t Avoid Abandonments

I consider this to be the strangest and most disturbing place that I’ve photographed to date. So what can be said when engaging in urban exploration exposes that you can’t even escape potential abandonment (and taxes) in death?…Apparently a lot!  I also touch upon some theories about Urban Exploration itself.

3. I’ve Got The Power……

Pictures from the interior of a turn-of-the-century “light plant”, built in 1905

4. Into the Belly of the Beast

Exploring The Mines That Fed The Industrial Revolution…..”The Goonies”—NEPA Style!

5. Fashion in Ruins

Twilight, History, Fashion,  Urban Exploration, Haute Couture, Goths, Salvador Dali,

Zombies, Journalists vs Bloggers Debate,  Vampires, The Devil Wears Prada, Elsa

Schiaparelli, The Victorian Era and Fashion Photo Shoots

CHERI SUNDRA

Resume 

Wondering how a person becomes a Guerrilla Historian and Zombie Building Infiltration Specialist? The short answer is, earn a degree in Mass Communications (which is useless in this job market) & when you can’t find work in your field, start doing Urban Exploration out of boredom!  But you can view my CV here:

CHERI SUNDRA’S RESUME