{"id":6673,"date":"2024-10-14T19:59:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T02:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:21:57","slug":"uranium-city-in-black-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/?p=6673","title":{"rendered":"Uranium City &#8211; in Black &amp; White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uranium City. A boom and bust town in northern Saskatchewan. Uranium was mined here during the 1950\u2019s &#8211; early 1980\u2019s and sold to the US government, and for use in Canadian designed CANDU nuclear reactors. Since the mine closed most of what was a busy town is now abandoned, smashed or salvaged. Empty streets, abandoned vehicles, collapsed buildings these have the become the image of Uranium City.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note: The pictures were converted to black &amp; white, as this suits the ghost-like and historical feel of Uranium City.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderngg_shortcode_1_placeholderngg_shortcode_2_placeholder&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uranium City. A boom and bust town in northern Saskatchewan. Uranium was mined here during the 1950\u2019s &#8211; early 1980\u2019s and sold to the US government, and for use in Canadian designed CANDU nuclear reactors. Since the mine closed most of what was a busy town is now abandoned, smashed or salvaged. Empty streets, abandoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,1743],"tags":[1671,1744,1661,1746,1651,1710,1722,1720,1745,1747,1753,1712,1650,1733,1730,1649,1731],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-assignment","category-uranium-city","tag-candu-school","tag-lakeathabasca","tag-mining","tag-miningtown","tag-abandoned","tag-abandoned-town","tag-eldorado-mining","tag-ghost-town","tag-lake-athabasca","tag-mining-town","tag-saksatchewan","tag-sask","tag-saskatchewan","tag-town","tag-uranium","tag-uranium-city","tag-uraniumcity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6747,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions\/6747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}