3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

It was one of those stickers that looks like stained glass. Almost everything of value was stripped from Dixmont.

Yup, I've shot Buffalo Central Terminal and Michigan Central Station in Detroit, each has a gallery I haven't gotten to as of yet... both are incredible buildings.

It looks like a piece of duct tape that fell off something and caught the cap so it's just hanging there.

I've shot a junkyard which was inside a giant warehouse that I thought was abandoned. One of the galleries I haven't gotten to yet... but an old junkyard would be fun to shoot, especially at night. Big and interesting ones are far and few between, and are usually guarded by dogs though...

The old library photo was taken in the 1950's, not sure about the exact year. http://www.opacity.us/...before_and_after.htm

Not a basement, but it looked like a kitchen, laundry, or maintenance area where patients might not be able access.

I visited in August 2006; there didn't seem to be much construction going on then... is it all gone now?

oops... had 24 pages to read last night :-)

Looks like it. Perhaps they are ward numbers? Internal use meaning inside the listed ward or hospital only?

anna, it feels different each time for me... it depends on the type of place, if I've been there before, the temperature, the sounds, the smells, my mood; a whole bunch of things that form into one memory that is occasionally brought back by visiting a place under similar conditions.

My memory hasn't been the greatest with details though, after 100 or so hospitals they start to blend together. I want to start writing my trip down afterwards so I don't forget...

I didn't try to climb up top to see if the original ceiling was still intact. I don't remember seeing a ladder up there either...

Yes the left side of the hallway was boarded up, I assume it would be the side facing outward from the hospital.

This place was smashed up a bit, but yeah it wasn't too vandalized.

This was an unusually long and narrow room... it is the same room in the previous two photos. I would assume it to be a seclusion room at some point if the door had no handle and the window had this cover.

Yes the stack on the right were from the power plant.