191 Comments Posted by Steve

Makes a hell of a kitchen

The wall was put up in the late 80's when they opened several wards in Bldg. 22 for younger, criminally insane patients.

It's a waterbug (a giant cockroach)

Does anybody know the history of the Letchworth cemetary off Call Hollow Road?

I have a set of Argos MSD-1121 speakers that look like those except they are wider and shorter with the same number of speakers. I got them in a bar years ago. I believe they were made in 1964. They are called; Argos sound director music column with proven "Tanco Focused Sound"

The drinking water is kind of a cold war relic, many of the buildings at pigrim house fallout shelters,the top line on top of the drum is the level at which water is to be filled, the bottom is for level at which feces is to be stored when the water is empty.

there are many tunnels, some go from old section to the new section of byberry. REALREZ@AOL.COM

As a "youth" i explored all the buildings on the old side, some have connecting tunnels.

If you like this series of photos check out this web site. http://www.oboylephoto.com/ The author did a very in depth photo essay of this site a few years back and you can see the changes that time has brought about.

You are close. This is a rack in which they would store differnet signal flags to be hoisted up the mast to send messages to other boats. Notice that there are 2 notches in the slot under each number and letter- that was to allow two flags of each to be stored on teh racks. On bigger Navy ships there would be one of these racks on each side of the ship.

It's a very scary auditorium at night, and when your light shines on the quote " Poets but not so much poetry it scares the hell out of you