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WHEELEROIDZ
Polaroids from the
North Jersey Underground vol. 2
Abandoned Books - forthcoming
COMING SOON!
WHEELEROIDZ VOL 2 is in the works and almost finished. This issue of Wheeler's Polaroid zine includes: Shoprite Phone Booths - Death of the Livingston Mall - S/O Pumping Station - Billy Jam - Lyndhurst Phones - Dekorte Park - Orange Memorial - Sara and the Skeleton - Newark Genesis Towers - Bordens/Peddler's Village - RKO Proctor's Theater -Fred Gall Rips Rooftops- and much much more...
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WHEELEROIDZ
Polaroids from the
North Jersey Underground vol. 1
Abandoned Books - May 2025
ISBN: 9798218647353
WHEELEROIDZ VOL #1 is here! Distilling the blighted landscape with his Polaroid camera, Wheeler captures the forsaken mood of New Jersey's backwaters, tunnels, graveyards, and abandoned buildings. The first zine in a three book series. 100 pages of pure New Jersey grit.
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13 FROM THE SWAMP
Passaic River Lore
ISBN: 1092371680
Abandoned Books - November 2019
Want to know what’s under all those bridges you’ve been seeing from your car window? Read 13 FROM THE SWAMP!
Fully illustrated with black and white photography, Wheeler is prepared to show you… not just tell you.
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MATT AND JESS FOREVER
ISBN: 1727280539
Abandoned Books - December 2018
310 pages
Fiction/Novel
Drugs, Sex, Murder, Skateboarding. A satanic love story that will rock you. This is Wheeler's first novel. Be prepared for an extremely wild read. (Adults Only)
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Walking the Old Boonton Line
A Photographic Journey on the Abandoned Rails
of New Jersey
ISBN: 979-8-218-03363-7
Abandoned Books - October 2022
Formerly part of the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad, the abandoned Old Boonton Line of the Erie Railroad runs through; Montclair, Glen Ridge, Bloomfield, Belleville, Newark, Kearny, Secaucus, and Jersey City. This book is a marker for the last moments when the Old Boonton Line was still perfectly abandoned, wild, and free.
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Walking the Newark Branch
A Photographic Journey on the Abandoned Rails of New Jersey
ISBN: 978-0-578-95230-7
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021943417
Abandoned Books - October 2021
One hundred fifty years of railroad history abandoned and left to rot in place provides the backdrop for Wheeler Antabanez as he walks the Newark Branch of the Erie Railroad.
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Words of Overbrook
ISBN: 1724826131
Abandoned Books - September 2018
Words of Overbrook was originally a spoken word album, but has now been transformed into a book. For the first time, Words of Overbrook is available in print along with never before seen images of the abandoned Essex County Hospital Center.
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THE OLD ASYLUM
AND OTHER STORIES
(second edition)
Abandoned Books - August 2018
Strange tales from the depths of the abandoned mental hospital. Inspired by a lifetime of trespassing in Overbrook Asylum, author Wheeler Antabanez captures and preserves the dark mood and creepy ambiance of the now demolished institution.
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One hundred fifty years of railroad history abandoned and left to rot in place provides the backdrop for Wheeler Antabanez as he walks the Newark Branch of the Erie Railroad. This movie is based on the book, Walking the Newark Branch A Photographic Journey on the Abandoned Rails of New Jersey.
The adventure begins on a rainy winter's day as Wheeler infiltrates deep into the Meadowlands to find the exact spot where the Erie Newark Branch emerges from the Old Boonton Line. As the expedition unfolds, Wheeler investigates such forsaken landmarks as the abandoned WNEW radio transmitter, Clark Thread Mill, NX Bridge, Riverside Industrial Superfund Site, Walter Kidde Brownfield Site, the Nutley Train Trestle, and many more.
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The Old Boonton Line of the Erie Railroad is the proposed route of a paved bike path that will stretch from Montclair to Jersey City. Wheeler Antabanez (Writer, Photographer, Weird NJ Correspondent) walked the rails one last time before the tracks disappear.
Formerly part of the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad, the abandoned Old Boonton Line of the Erie Railroad runs through; Montclair, Glen Ridge, Bloomfield, Belleville, Newark, Kearny, Secaucus, and Jersey City.
This book and movie stands as a marker for the winter of 2021/2022, the last moments when the Old Boonton Line remained perfectly abandoned, wild, and free.
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Distraught and disillusioned by the demolition of his favorite abandoned asylum, Wheeler wrote Words of Overbrook during a nine-day outpouring of cathartic scribbling.
Words of Overbrook, the movie, chronicles the asylum from semi-abandonment to full-on infiltration and total demolition.
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Special Features:
FRED GALL
VS
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA |
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Freddy and Wheeler get more than they bargained for when they discover the most historic skate spot in Newark, NJ. Originally reported in THRASHER magazine. The full story can now be told.
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Cal Flyn and Wheeler explore the abandoned mills along the Passaic River in Paterson for her book Islands of Abandonment. Take an inside look at Chapter Six:
DAYS OF ANARCHY
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