The Abandoned Streets of the Glasgow AFB, Montana
Home of the Adventurous is probably the perfect slogan for this place. When I begin to write something down about this place I honestly don't know where to begin. So I guess I should start by saying that almost everything you will be seeing in these photos is abandoned. This is a former cold war air force base that was basically left to rot by the government after less than 10 years of use. There are a few families that live in the condos still, but I would say 90 or more percent of these homes are empty. The schools are decaying, as is the hospital and all other buildings except those owned by Boeing. Boeing owns the runway and uses it for test purposes. And instead of moving their employees into the empty condos they set up manufactured homes for them.
The weather in Saint Marie is especially brutal, terribly hot dry summers and fierce awful winters. Saint Marie is like an island of condos and abandoned buildings in a great sea of prairie--nothing else is around it for miles and miles. It is true desolation. And when you drive the broken streets and see the condos with those big windows looking at you like empty eyes it is like you are in another world entirely. Then you see the signs set up by Boeing saying not to go any further and that essentially they are watching you--it's like something from a movie. I encourage you to look up other people's photos of Saint Marie and the things you will see will haunt you. Operating tables and beds left up in the hospital. Robes left hanging in the church. Everyone just walked away one day and this is what remains. If you are especially adventurous you can move here--the condos are a steal. A beautiful one fully furnished just sold for 30,000 dollars and there are others for much less than that.
Here are videos I took while exploring Saint Marie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrRJCKiXAW8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiY1O0rBhu0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtke7q9aYk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rmeK7KYBk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yy00FTiwvk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZL-NyrcBrg
If any of you are as fascinated with this place as I am I have compiled a list of other websites where you can see old and new photos of this place, as well as real estate listings for condos that are for sale:
www.city-data.com/forum/montana/152625-glasgow-montana-re...
stmariecondoassn.tripod.com/stmarie/smstuff.html
www.radomes.org/museum/thumbs.php?site=Opheim+AFS,+MT
www.airfields-freeman.com/MT/Airfields_MT_E.html
www.flickr.com/photos/walkaboutwolf/94704293/
CONDO INFO
www.northwest-national.com/glasgow_montana_recreational.htm
www.missouririverrealty.com/st. marie.htm
The Abandoned Streets of the Glasgow AFB, Montana
Home of the Adventurous is probably the perfect slogan for this place. When I begin to write something down about this place I honestly don't know where to begin. So I guess I should start by saying that almost everything you will be seeing in these photos is abandoned. This is a former cold war air force base that was basically left to rot by the government after less than 10 years of use. There are a few families that live in the condos still, but I would say 90 or more percent of these homes are empty. The schools are decaying, as is the hospital and all other buildings except those owned by Boeing. Boeing owns the runway and uses it for test purposes. And instead of moving their employees into the empty condos they set up manufactured homes for them.
The weather in Saint Marie is especially brutal, terribly hot dry summers and fierce awful winters. Saint Marie is like an island of condos and abandoned buildings in a great sea of prairie--nothing else is around it for miles and miles. It is true desolation. And when you drive the broken streets and see the condos with those big windows looking at you like empty eyes it is like you are in another world entirely. Then you see the signs set up by Boeing saying not to go any further and that essentially they are watching you--it's like something from a movie. I encourage you to look up other people's photos of Saint Marie and the things you will see will haunt you. Operating tables and beds left up in the hospital. Robes left hanging in the church. Everyone just walked away one day and this is what remains. If you are especially adventurous you can move here--the condos are a steal. A beautiful one fully furnished just sold for 30,000 dollars and there are others for much less than that.
Here are videos I took while exploring Saint Marie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrRJCKiXAW8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiY1O0rBhu0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtke7q9aYk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rmeK7KYBk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yy00FTiwvk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZL-NyrcBrg
If any of you are as fascinated with this place as I am I have compiled a list of other websites where you can see old and new photos of this place, as well as real estate listings for condos that are for sale:
www.city-data.com/forum/montana/152625-glasgow-montana-re...
stmariecondoassn.tripod.com/stmarie/smstuff.html
www.radomes.org/museum/thumbs.php?site=Opheim+AFS,+MT
www.airfields-freeman.com/MT/Airfields_MT_E.html
www.flickr.com/photos/walkaboutwolf/94704293/
CONDO INFO
www.northwest-national.com/glasgow_montana_recreational.htm
www.missouririverrealty.com/st. marie.htm