401 Comments Posted by Joseph

william schafer

Thank for responding.

I am finally able to get to get back to you.

The latrines in the Army now - a - days are really starting to change. Some of the barracks in Germany are really start to change. The barracks are being refurbished. I call them "4 star hotels". These barracks that are now being refurbished in Germany have the American 110 voltage electrical wall outlets in addition to the European 220 voltage wall outlets. Eventually the day will come when the "step - down 220 voltage to 110 voltage transformers" will hardly ever be used anymore by the American Military personnel in Europe. There are now built - in ready to use telephone connection ports along with built - in cable television ready to use access ports and ready to use computer internet access ports. These same barracks rooms also have walk - in closets, microwave ovens, kitchen sinks with hot and cold running water and cupboards along with a nice refridgerator. The latrines in these same barracks rooms are now "walk - in bathrooms" instead of the latrines from the "old days". These "bathrooms" have a nice sink and mirror and a very nice shower. Some of these "bathrooms" have a bathtub too. The floor and walls also tiled. And these "bathrooms" usually have a window too.

These new barracks latrines or "bathrooms" are so much nicer today. I can certainly tell you that.

The U.S. Air Force is now starting to have washers and dryers placed in each individual barracks room.

Some of the things in the Military are just starting to get better.

The latrines (if you can call them that) absolutely sucked when I was deployed to Haiti in 1994. The toilets in the photograph above actually look better then the bathroom in the Haiti.

Well take care and thank you for serving the United States of America.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

11:42 P.M. / Tuesday / 31 / July / 2007

Those red curtains give me the hee - bee / gee - bee's.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

8:51 P.M. / Monday / 30 / July / 2007

UNREAL ! ! !

This photograph could be straight out of a 1920's silent film.

Love this photo ! ! !

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

8:39 P.M. / Monday / 30 / July / 2007

I do not think that I like this room very much. The windows are not big enough to let very much light into the room. This room looks it was used for medical training classes and or some sort of break room or something like that.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

1:46 A.M. / Sunday / 29 / July /2007

Oh how the mighty chairs have fallen to the wayside.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

1:08 A.M. / Saturday / 29 / July / 2007

Looks like someone has been sleeping there.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

12:46 A.M. / Saturday / 29 / July / 2007

The great machines that were built by the men and women of yesterday eventually rust and decay into the modern ruins of today.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

12:32 A.M. / Saturday / 29 / July / 2007

This hallway is strangely tomb like in it's shape.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

12:24 A.M. / Saturday / 29 / July / 2007

These photographs always bring thoughts of something.

This is a photograph of the future of how we will live.

Someday there will be a built - in link between the plant kingdom and the manufactured structured wall's of the buildings that we will live in and work in. The plants can be used as a way of producing oxygen to breathe cleaner air and to help regulate the air temperature inside the buildings. People will also be able to live and work in a much nicer and safer environment. The Ferrari automobile plant in Italy is starting to do this in a small way.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

12:17 A.M. / Saturday / 29 / July / 2007

The walls look as if they were bleeding a blue type of blood.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

11:30 P.M. / Friday / 28 / July / 2007

A long, boring and seemingly endless hallway.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

11:25 P.M. / Friday / 28 / July / 2007

They missed a couple of windows.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

11:23 P.M. / Tuesday / 24 / July / 2007

There are too many people in this hallway.



Oh my GOD ! ! ! Dare I say it ? ! ? !



Is this photograph "The Shape of Things to Come" ?

Is this photograph a celluloid procognition of a future yet to arrive ?


This is the possible future >>>

The Men and Women who are the "modern day pioneers of Urban Exploration today" will someday become the "tour guides of Urban Exploration tomorrow".

And that will be a sad day indeed ! ! !

All of the excitement, danger, dirt and grit of going thru an old abandoned building will be replaced with the safe, clean, boring, dull and drab "state" of a walking tour.

Who knows; maybe Disneyland or KnottsBerry Farm will train people on how to give "walking tours" of old abandoned buildings.

And won't that be pathetic ! ! !

They will probably even charge admission and everything. Why, they might even have an "E - ticket ride". Well, wouldn't that be nice. The patron might even have to sign a waiver form so the company will not get sued by the injured party.

That could be the future....................................

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

10:54 P.M. / Tuesday / 24 / July / 2007

It's another one of those lamps.

Those pesky things are everywhere !

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

13:12 P.M. / Tuesday / 24 / July / 2007

I want some of those lamps !

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

1:10 P.M. / Tuesday / 24 / July / 2007