142 Comments Posted by Lyric

How about the 50 points, the cumezekyamam and a Maker's Mark and Ginger Ale, double in a tall glass?
Or am I pushin it?

Rachel- It is totally natural to be more creeped out by the image of an empty casket. It brings mortality into sharp contrast.
It also, makes one realize that someone, somewhere in a building wrought with inhumanities, that someone really tried to give them something decent at the end.
We all have to remember that not everyone who worked in these facilities then were bad, horrible and cruel people. Sadly, it's the bad stories we remember because they are so prevalent.

As a retired EMT, I can say that I wished we had trained in facilities like this.
Often you will find specialized EMS training teams inside old buildings working things like Confined Space Rescue, and Rope Rescue Tenchiques.
Also you will find Search and Rescue Special Teams working in abandonned buildings learning how to safely walk and transverse precariously balanced things.
Buildings like these make for great training.

You'd be surprised. There are people out there who would love to forget that we had places like this, let alone the patients who lived in them.
IF we took the time to look, learn, and appreciate what went on in these buildings, we could learn more and progess in care.
Rather than to disrespect, and allow the care to stop. The disrespect that someone shows for old buildings, only shows that they have no respect or undestanding of the past.
Grafitti aside.
What I mean, is arson, broken windows, and stealing things from buildings like this.
An arsonist, will burn bridges in life until they lead a lonely existance.
Someone who smashes, has no care for another's belongings, until one of theirs gets broken.
A theif, will never appreciate how hard it is to work for what they really want. For them it's the easy way.
Someone who fails to show respect, will never know respect.
And someone who just goes along because their friends all do it... Will have a hard time being a leader.
At least these are the observations I have made in my life.

Yes, the could swallow, the only thing that they couldn't do completely on their own was breathe

The morgue..... :-)

This reminds me of Boblo Island in Michigan.
It's been closed for years, but I would love to take a camera and see what kind of disrepair the old amusement park is in now.

As Lynne has taught us... This is Mott's Teleportation Device. Only he is showing off an older version.
For those of you who can't figure out how he gets into old buildings. This is how.. he simply teleports there. If you don't believe me, keep looking there is proof of him near his Master Teleportation device......

What won me over was the Lonely Chair shot... The Escapee....

Here in Northern California, the majority of the mines are now in either State Parks, or on Private Property. You can still purchase a home here that has mineral rights to the mine that is on that land, prohibiting you from Commercial Mining, but not from Private Mining, as your home insurance will now have to cover you if you put yourself in a hole in the ground.
Many of the old buildings that would be closed in every other city are still in business, and the owners work to preserve the history of the buildings here. So much so that a favorite coffee shop of Serrena's and mine, has had to start closing at 5pm. because they were having problems with vandalism of the historic site that it is in.
The building is an old Soda Works. On the first floor of the building is a mine shaft, that goes back about 200 feet. Because of the constant temperature in the mine shaft it was once used as an Ice House.
I promise to not tell you about the graffitti in there, or about how the kids think it is perfectly okay to kick the brick walls until mortar falls out and they now have a growing hole. To think this building isn't even vacant...

My folks are good friends with an antique dealer. While we never had access to some of the buildings in Detroit, because of the age and decay inside them. Turn of the century homes that were slated for demolition, were often opened by the original owners for Collectors and Antique dealers to go in and obtain what they could,
The owners would offer no help, so the removal of some structures within a home often required careful planning.
One would not want to remove the solid oak and leaded glass french doors and archway from a weight bearing wall first.
One house we worked in we removed a clawfoot tub, a cast iron kitchen sink, with hand pump.
We had also removed stained glass windows.
So yes obtaining hand crafted and antique items can be down, howver, it has to be done almost immediately or the decay and vandalism results in both decreased value and irrepairable damage, so that it wouldn't be worth removing.

I have assaulted Puddleboys 'Blog again... Muahahaha... I have gone from addict/pusher to full on stalker.....

Water Pipes

Okay, I'm dizzy now.

Ghosts are an interesting concept.
I do believe that every living being leaves an impression on the physical world.
I mean really. Who's gone house shopping (apartments count too) and when you walk into the house you can feel the prior residents. Wether it was a happy home or a not so happy home.

Do I believe that the spirits rise from the dead and haunt the living? Yes and no.
I believe that the not so happy feelings result in a lingering sensation of 'haunted'.
But no, I don't believe in seeing a physical manifestation of a manical demon coming to get me.

You can tell that patient confidentiality wasn't a major concern like it is now.