Manzanar comes to mind as well as Alcatraz, both in California.  The
ghost town Bodie (CA) also has that "abandonment" feel as well,
regardless of the visitors trekking up and down the dirt roads.  I've
been to Bodie twice, and its atmosphere always makes me feel like an
outsider looking in.

O
Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
Yorba Linda, CA  92886
(714) 993-5075 ext. 224 (fax) (714) 528-0544; e-mail:  [log in to unmask]

On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:52:59 -0800 Lucy Skjelstad <[log in to unmask]> writes:
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>Julia Clark wrote:
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snip >> Can anyone help with some innovative strategies for the above.
>> I am on the Port Arthur Heritage Advisory Panel, responsible for
>heritage advice to the Board of the Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania,

>Australia....
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>Lucy Skejstad replied:

snip>This is just a very personal reaction, but the sites of the genre
you
>describe
>that I have liked best had been maintained in what appeared to the
>visitor to
>be a state of recent abandonment, retaining the 'powerful atmosphere'
>that you
>refer to...