Today while passing by working on a project the front door was wide open. The lock was cut and the gate has been broken into. The ply wood that was barricading the door has been unscrewed. The Bud, as it appeared, was open for business. I poked my head in and made a few photographs. The Bud was a backdrop back in 2009 for a project I have been working on Yoga In Unusual Spaces. Since then I have heard lose stories and bits of information. Until today, I had never seen the interior space. It was a walk back into time.
There is a certain charm and aesthetic to this building. To my knowledge, this charisma has already been sought out before me. I advise, with strong caution, please do not enter this space. The conditions of this building are very poor. The middle section of the building has folded in on itself, on every level except the ground level. Very shortly the front gate will be relocked.
This place is such a terribly wasted piece of history...To see a building come undone to this degree is a shame, and it should be a crime...Great photos as always, sir...!
ReplyDeleteIt was such a beautiful place had a lot of good times in that building, a work of true craftmanship.
ReplyDeleteI hope someone can save it, great pictures.
thanks for the pictures Jeffrey! I would like to talk to you privately. liv1946@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteWhat a great place.There were rumers years ago that the place was haunted.Seen the Clancy Bros. there in the early 70's.
ReplyDeleteGreat old place.I remember years ago,they said the place was haunted.Seen the Clancy Bros. there,back in the early 70's.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThat is just a damn shame, I loved that place..
ReplyDeleteI remember this place well as my friend's father used to like to imbibe a few back in the late 40s and early 50s. I well do remember the foot prints on the ceiling and also the sign over the mens room urinals that read, "Bulls with short horns stand close, the next bull may be bare-foot."
ReplyDeleteBy today's standards, politically incorrect. Go figure ...
David C.
I have been in the bud Many times (delivering soda and fixing the soda guns) Way downstairs.....there is a walk in (cooler) inside a walk in...inside a walk in!! Talk about a scary place to deliver. If the doors (any of the 3 large heavy wooden doors) were ever to slam closed...I don't think i would have been able to get out. and nobody would ever hear me yelling. (this was long before cell phones....although I am sure there would be no signal anyways) My plan would have been to unhook the beer kegs...I figure they would come running down in minutes!
ReplyDeleteI am truly heartbroken over this. I attended a meeting at city hall back in the 90's to discuss how many beautiful old Holyoke structures were being knocked down. There were a group of scavengers from an architectural salvage company in NYC salivating over the old buildings, and I got the distinct impression that city officials had already been paid for the precious interiors and there was nothing that a handful of opponents could do to stop them. My ancestors helped to build Holyoke, and we have photos from late 1800's/early 1900's that my Grandmother
ReplyDelete(an amateur photographer ) took. It was, and is, a beautiful city. This will sound overly dramatic to some, but it is so painful to see that the Bud was raped, and will now be murdered. That's really how I feel about it. That, and really pissed off.