I grew up north of Spfld and my mother grew up in Holyoke so she was familiar with Spfld and area history,etc. Personally I vaguely remember when the "jail for sale" was still a jail. But for the majority of my life the York Street Jail, really was the "jail for sale" and was actually somewhat of a joke for area residents, ya know is anyone gonna actually buy it, and for what. By the time I went off to college the jail for sale still stood but as time progressed I remember coming home via I-91 and being shocked (doing the old double-take) realizing that this long vacant prison was slowly being demolished and suddenly on one trip back to the area it was gone...
I absolutely love your photos, not only of York St. Jail but many others. Excellent work!
BTW: The lenses are worthless too. They are probably clouded and delaminted inside making them worthless. Today's optics are of much higher quality than these were.
These aren't worth a lot of money nowadays except to a few collectors from the old school. The most worthwhile part is the sound system which is tube amps. The projectors that i removed from the NY state psychiatric hospital were identical to these. I paid $1,600 for the lot and sold the sound system for $2,500 by itself. Those tube amps are worth a fortune.
Where is this place located? I would like to contact the state about removing these projectors. I have two exactly identical projectors to these that I removed from a psychiatric hospital in New York several years ago.
when I visited the ruins in 1994 the two side altars were reduced by a sledge hammer to two huge piles of rock left on the chapel floor.The main altar was spotted by an alert non SDB priest who had it professionally removed and relocated to a very large parish where it tis now the main altar. This Salesian property was sold at a tax auction sale due to horrendous mismanagement by the Salesians.
I absolutely love your photos, not only of York St. Jail but many others. Excellent work!