336 Comments Posted by Dark-Star

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Shades of my dear alma mater again. {8'-[ Remember going up to class in the morning; "CREAK-creeeak-CREEK-creeeak" up the staircase, loud as heck because you were still a bit sleepy and everything echoed in the foyer.
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@ Sandy - the general idea was for the vent to go to a chimney, but why it points TOWARD the cook rather than straight up I have no idea.
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Another beheading, wonder if that had an anti-Christian motivation behind it.

My old school had ancient Apple II models of some sort and all the edutainment games were on giant floppy disks and used as a reward for good behavior or to occupy a bright student who was done with the homework while teacher was still trying to get all the dullards to 'get it'. (can you tell I was in this position sometimes?) We didn't even bother to learn keyboarding as every adult knew that they would be long gone by the time we graduated.

When I was in fourth grade the school finally got some Windows 95/98 computers donated from a business after they upgraded, and somehow the kindergarten class in a separate building got a couple Imac's. Unfortunately it all went to waste when the school shut down a couple years later.
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For some reason, I feel dreadful for laughing at the tile and the picture...but the irony of the statue and the computer monitors is just too funny!
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So then take the doorframe apart, people! Ugh, what a waste to leave that gorgeous artwork behind! I think I would have definitely broken the UE code, rolled it up, and left it in a tube outside a local Catholic church marked as an anonymous donation.
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Imagine if the statue had been backlit just right and your first sight of it looked like a PERSON with no head!
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Agree with you |Beth|, that ugly thing is a total waste of paint, time, and surface, a sharp contrast with the art in the other picture.
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Show of hands - who would immediately try to straighten it? *raises hand*
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Wonder if the painting was to cover graffiti, like the scrawl in this picture that rather ruins the mood.
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0.o They simulated the curtain...with wood?! I'm seriously stunned; that takes not only a lot of hard labor to get right but some serious ingenuity in order to think of how it would work in the first place. I also concur that this place should not have been abandoned.
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Whoever designed this area was no slouch. The skylight providing 'heavenly light' really sets off one's emotions.
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Always nice to see a chapel that isn't trashed. I wonder if the taggers were locals and/or had friends or relatives who used to go here.
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And to think I was just wishing for a close-up of this from the previous photo! It's like Motts read my mind!

What's with the lock on it, incidentally?
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Goodness, what an assortment. I know more old electronics than anyone else my age and I have no idea what most of that stuff could be. The brass plate on the rightmost side intrigues me - do I see a greek "alpha" on the left side and an "omega" on the right, symbolizing "the beginning and end", and the Chi-Rho in the middle (the cross with a P) for Christ?.
@ Mica - i noticed that as well, very few boards have their own lights in older buildings. Wonder why it was considered so important.
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Definitely a raccoon. Spacing and prints are wrong for a rabbit and too small and hand-like for a fox.