One of our favorite bloggists is the New York Scout. This guy has one of the best jobs in the world: a location scout for film, television, print and probably a few clients we shouldn’t know about.
His latest find is Goverthing, NY – a buried town in the shadow of New York City. It’s an incredibly interesting story of the weirdness that can be civic government plans made in the best interest of society. But what we really dig are even weirder things like this buried ‘73 Charger Rallye. We can kinda understand why it was done in the interest of human advancement, but we’d drive this thing ALL DAY LONG.
This looks like it’ll prove to be a bitchin’ example of mid-century gas station design when it’s uncovered. And what’s even bitchin-er is…
…this WORKING jukebox?!?! Are the Belgian archaeologists working on this dig pulling something on us, here? There’s no way that nickelodeon would be left unmolested for decades by any self-respecting New York hipster, right? Is that possible?
For $5, you can go traipse around this place and if we were over on the Right Coast, we’d attack that Rallye with a few shovels and cans of WD-40…
This is really obviously not a true archaeological dig, although it does take a minute when you visit to realize it. That said, I do think it’s an interesting idea, to have something that’s not portrayed as art on exhibit to see how people react. When you think it’s “real” instead of a “representation” (art), you react differently. Your imagination is more engaged, because it’s still in the process of being “uncovered”– rather than “on display” in a museum somewhere. See my blog post here: http://bit.ly/3m9pu