75 Comments Posted by evilavatar

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I really dig the stone exterior, but I have to say, that ladder on top of the main entrance seems kind of out of place. In a fire I guess I would jump if given no other choice, but i can see no need for it, unless it was needed for maintenance for some reason. The green patina on the downspouts has me wondering, were they copper or just painted green? This place is just awesome and I love the set, nice work Mr. Motts.
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Odd tidbits, John Wilkes Booth was supposedly interred here in an unmarked grave and the only 2 known Greenmount red roses are planted or the progeny of a rose that was probably created by a gardener at Greenmount in 1854.
Ephemera: Cemetery Safari: Funerary Art at Greenmount
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Is the chain on the right attached to the feet? They look link of like some of the foot pedals off the old sowing machines, but usually they come with one and are designed for use with either foot, so it seems kind of odd. Could it be the bottom plate of a pedal organ? It would make sense that the chain could run up to open and close the bellows maybe?
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I dig the old wooden pull out benches. Such a shame to see them just left to rot.
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This reminds me of Bob-Lo Island in Michigan. It was closed in 1993 and is supposed to be converted to condo's or some such nonsense.
Ephemera: Royal Land
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With the history of failing to properly deal with waste disposal that is exemplified by incidents like the housing complex in Love Canal New York I think you would have a hard time selling any of these reuse projects here. If you look at places like Germany there is also a want to forget the historic use of certain projects that may have been involved in the war efforts of WWII. I think both of these factors are major drivers in the differing thinking on why reuse projects differ between cultures.
Ephemera: Industrial Reuse: Just a Pipe Dream?
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http://punker600.livej...31.html?thread=16983
Found a copy of the same picture above at this link, along with a longer version of the quotation... when I searched the quotation it comes up with several references to Anton Chekhov, but I cannot find any exact version of the quote other than above.
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lol Mr. Motts, I think most people usually tend to try and go the other way around and break out :)
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There was a time when that looks like it may have been a blue on the walls and there are tons of psychological studies that have been done on the use of colors in different types of facilities. Often blues, greens, and yellows/whites were painted on as an after thing as new research on how color can effect mood came out. The brownish color is probably the original wall color and the other colors denote work done later to "improve" the facility.
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It almost looks like part of the grammar training stuff for suffixes and prefixes, though "and" would not fit in that grouping.
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ESU would suggest emergency services unit, but I would think they would have a larger door and more stuff left behind if that was the case, so I would assume it is something else.
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I do enjoy new pictures and that was very nice gallery. I am surprised to see the tin ceiling is still their as the panels are much beloved by scrappers looking for something to sell for scrap though the proximity to the prison may have helped that.
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The Otis elevator company is still in business. The oil cans fit with the logo they used from about 1950 on. I doubt they would have had much metal oil cans lying around from the early 1940's as much of the material was collected and used for the war effort. It looks like they changed the logo to black cursive on a yellow background with a twist top (these were 1 and 2 gallon size metal jars I found) in the late 60's or early 70's and the cans I found date form like 1972ish. My guess would be the oil in them is junk but they still make this type of oil http://www.qualityelev.../main/liquid/lub.htm along with several others that are comparable.
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yeah instead of cocaine they did thorazine...
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It's a penicillin farm.