82 Comments Posted by Mnementh

Was the little lead apron hanging on a nearby peg?

Now this IS a waste...I know there's a market for bowling alleys and, believe it or not, you CAN move them! I saw where someone bought a decomissioned air force base and converted it to commercial use and cut up one of the bowling alleys to make a humongous confrence table - it was about 15' long and must have weighed over 1,000 lbs 'cause that's rock maple, edge laminated and VERY thick.

I'm struck by the contrasting textures of the fluffy pillow, soft blanket and crunchy paint chips...

That is what I enjoy in urban exploring...seeing how mans creations hold up against nature when no maintenance is done. I have a strong suspicion that if large neutron bombs were set off, eliminating mankind, that within 50-75 years there would be little indication of mankinds brief reign on earth...

This set actually reminds me more of the 60's soap opera 'Dark Shadows'

Indeed it is...they re-roofed the catholic cathedral in St. Paul last year & it had a shiny copper dome for all of 3-4 months before it started to whether. Now it's already accumulating it's green mantle of verdegris, though it has nothing on THESE roofs! ^_^

Geez, first terazzo floors and now an ornate chandeliered room with stained glass skylight? Methinks this building had a different, higher use in a previous existence...perhaps a masonic temple?

These places make me think of military bases with their tripply redundant power supplies. Any reason why they all had their own power plants instead of tying into the local grid?

There are even BIGGER ones. A local news story about 6 months ago here concerned a nurse who was burned to death when she was inside a WALK-IN autoclave and it somehow activated...

Hmmm...hope somebody wasn't trying to get high enough to vandalize that beautiful glass. Looks like there's an interesting design in the floor too....

I got one I inherited from my parents. Works better at crushing ice into larger pieces than a blender, which tends to puree it into slush...

I used to work w. one back in the late 70s at an newspaper - we'd use it to make plates w. the subscriber's addresses which would in turn be printed on the papers for bulk mailing.

...remove FUNNY BONE!!

(sorry, did anyone else have an 'operation' game as a kid?)

Yea, cheer for the home team!!

Kind of sad that they didn't even let them out for exercise...

I've seen 35mm arc projectors like this in countless unused old theaters. They're as technologically antiquated as a manual typewriter...