This is our apartment, we don’t live there anymore. We lived there for two years and were fortunate enough to have a very spacious, modern apartment at a good location for a reasonable rent. We really enjoyed our time there and thought I’d share some pictures for those of you who never made it there. Unfortunately this tour is when the apartment was empty so you don’t get our personal touches that made it home, but you know how stylin we are so I’m sure you can pretend. I’ll be doing some posts about our new place and improvements we’ve made to it soon, so I thought it was only fair to showcase the Ovaltine apartment.
For those of you who are not from this area you may be thinking Ovaltine apartments is an interesting name - like the drink? Yes exactly. The main building was an old Ovaltine Factory which was abandoned ever since I lived in the area. It sits right next to a popular bike path, we’d ride it as kids and I remember feeling the incredible need to pedal as fast as I possibly could past the factory especially if it was getting dark. You see there were rumors and stories. Folktales maybe but also first hand accounts from friends brave enough to enter through the broken windows, armed with bb guns of course. The place did look spooky: broken windows, graffiti, unkempt premises. The stories say it was used for satanic rituals and it was haunted. Those who had been inside would testify to satanic markings on the walls, and further evidence. I never went in, I just whizzed by on my bike. I guess it was abandoned for about 15 years and in 2004 they renovated the factory and turned them into lofts, which are really cool by the way. They also put up about a dozen or so new buildings around the property. We lived in one of the new buildings so that should have minimized any hauntings. The large smoke stack still stands in the middle of the parking lot. I had to resist the urge to climb it many a time. I miss our Ovaltine apartment, it just wasn’t our time anymore.
Interesting note: while looking online for old pictures of the abandoned building I saw that the property is now up for sale. I wonder what will become of it. (via Rite Me Up)
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