336 Comments Posted by Dark-Star

The requisite Lonely Chair (tm) shot, and as good as ever.

Beautiful. Once again reminded of my beloved old school that has woodwork like this all over the place. I was probably the ONLY kid who appreciated any of it. (my grandfather and father were amateur woodworkers on occasion)

Shawnerr - thanks for the info...was wondering why on earth you would deliberately put such a thing in a sink, because it wasn't random vandalism.

Ye gads...steam...radiators...I have the most UNpleasant memories of those wretched things from my old school. When they did decide to work correctly they would scorch you something fierce if you leaned on them. At least one person set a plastic bag on a radiator and it melted right through!

I concur with your assessment; someone was definitely doing maintenance, and a good job at that.

Wow, reminds me much of my old elementary school.

HOORAH! Best New Year's present EVER - a new gallery from our favorite urbex photographer! Thank you Motts!

I feel dizzy just looking at the photo!

With how much weight is hanging literally right over your head there I'd be a bit nervous taking that picture!

Motts, ever the one to find the smallest things that get our brain-boxes working the hardest and wondering "now what's the story behind THAT?"

Well....of all the things I did NOT expect to be in there. Wow. That would be a definite plus if I were stuck in that place, I'd bowl all the darn time.

How did one access those bleachers?

Can't help but snicker at the graffiti on the shallow end of the pool wall, juvenile as it is.

This is one of the reasons I advise people to stay away from windows while urbexing and not take too long with camera shots looking out. Even if you're so disguised that a Marine sniper couldn't spot you with their eyes a thermal cam can see you as clear as day.

Oh, and if you think you're being followed Motts a friend of mine advises that a nifty field trick is to put buckets of (nonpolluted) water over doors like a prankster if you have nothing else handy or full of something that will make lots of noise but not hurt whoever it falls on if the only water around is a health hazard. That, or a chair/table propped against the door just at the point where it will tip over if the door's opened. In either case the worst that will happen to the victim is a little bath or needing a change of underwear while you get a timely warning.

A couple of my aunts are nurses and have operated gizmos like these back in the day; the first generations of new medical technology literally being field-tested with technology about at the level of "bamboo technology" from Gilligan's Island.