The Casino Szombathely Tapes(1998-1999)(partally found)
Dec 15, 2023 21:07:27 GMT
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Post by easycoreth on Dec 15, 2023 21:07:27 GMT
Hey guys, it's the "Hungarian guy" again, bringing to you another interesting lost media story from the country.
So in 1908 a castle-like building was build in the city of szombathely inside the vas county which after the second world war became a "üttörőház"(there literally isn't an english word for this, imagine it as a place for a communist party youth camp) and then in 1993 became "casino szombathely" which was yea, a casino(and an average resturant at the daytime).
Now this is where the lost media comes in.
So in 1999 the casino part of the building closed down due to debt, but the resturant stayed open until the mid-2000's, but as it turns out all of the casino's security camera footage from it's later years was not only kept on vhs tapes(mainly seperated by day), but even after the closing in 1999 no one threw out or relocated the tapes from there, so now after the entire building got abandoned, the tapes were still there...
Around 2015-2016 hungarian urbex youtubers started flocking the place which was at this point were broken into and vandalized multible times and it was found out that a large part of the tapes(from presumably 1998 to 1999) was STILL INTACT and kept in what i like to call the "tape room".
Seemingly no one decided to take away the tapes and digitize them.
UNTIL
In april 22th of 2016, the casino mysteriously caught on fire bringing devestating damage to the building, and as it was seen in the videos going into the burned building, the entire tape room was empty'd
Now we still don't know what happened to those tapes, BUT around 34 minutes of footage was digitized and givin to a news website who proceeded to upload the footage with minor changes onto youtube in 2019
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
As for the others, they might be permenantly lost either due to being burned by the fire or just being switched around currently between many people.
The abandoned casino still stands but now it's borden up completely so no one can go in
My main sources is this(also where the images attached came from):
szellemvarosok.blog.hu/2015/12/12/casino_szombathely
So in 1908 a castle-like building was build in the city of szombathely inside the vas county which after the second world war became a "üttörőház"(there literally isn't an english word for this, imagine it as a place for a communist party youth camp) and then in 1993 became "casino szombathely" which was yea, a casino(and an average resturant at the daytime).
Now this is where the lost media comes in.
So in 1999 the casino part of the building closed down due to debt, but the resturant stayed open until the mid-2000's, but as it turns out all of the casino's security camera footage from it's later years was not only kept on vhs tapes(mainly seperated by day), but even after the closing in 1999 no one threw out or relocated the tapes from there, so now after the entire building got abandoned, the tapes were still there...
Around 2015-2016 hungarian urbex youtubers started flocking the place which was at this point were broken into and vandalized multible times and it was found out that a large part of the tapes(from presumably 1998 to 1999) was STILL INTACT and kept in what i like to call the "tape room".
Seemingly no one decided to take away the tapes and digitize them.
UNTIL
In april 22th of 2016, the casino mysteriously caught on fire bringing devestating damage to the building, and as it was seen in the videos going into the burned building, the entire tape room was empty'd
Now we still don't know what happened to those tapes, BUT around 34 minutes of footage was digitized and givin to a news website who proceeded to upload the footage with minor changes onto youtube in 2019
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
As for the others, they might be permenantly lost either due to being burned by the fire or just being switched around currently between many people.
The abandoned casino still stands but now it's borden up completely so no one can go in
My main sources is this(also where the images attached came from):
szellemvarosok.blog.hu/2015/12/12/casino_szombathely
