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IBM Palisades Conference Center abandoned for 8 years aerial drone video will make you cry

If you worked at IBM (or were a customer or business partner) you may have visited this IBM Palisades Conference Center which was amazing. This 33 minute aerial drone video made me cry as it shows the inside and outside. Like a science fiction movie (Aliens) where the humans just disappear. SO SAD!!!!! Like far too many former great IBM sites and buildings as IBM leaves the USA and declines into oblivion. DID NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN! Read about King Louie (Lou Gerstner The G Man) "having a treadmill reserved" just for him. SO ARROGANT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXwgHWfR_b8

#Facilities #Strategy #Culture
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A microcosm of what's happened to the broader IBM.

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IBM 1999 is different from IBM 2025. Today's IBM is run by a cabal of vultures.

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I was at Palisades in 1999 for a conference. It was quite a stunning place. If it’s the same video I saw, they showed really wild time capsule stuff like tea bags on the counters for guests, food in the kitchens, raised floors being used for storage…even type 1 token ring cabling (!!!!) and Rolm (!!!!!) phones on the desks.

IBM and the new owner (HNA) both split, and now the site is a destination for urban explorers. What a difference 25 years makes.

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Lou was an absoute G... really the last good leader IBM ever had. The decaying, abandoned Palisades Conference Center is a metaphor for what IBM is today.

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