1,301 Comments Posted by guitorman

All this is new to me from when I was there years ago.
Much of the rest of the prison is the same over and over again,so this works out well.

The pipes are for heat.
The utilities in the prison were state-of-the-art for the time.Each cell had a radiator.
Before those days they had a room with a giant fire in a furnace and they found a way to blow that through the prison via duct work.
Each cell had a cement toillette and prisoners found a way to use the poop pipe that ran under each corridor as a communication tube,until the prison began to leave the pipe flooded for days at a time.

Nah, I didn't get to go there.

I always felt in my heart this place should be shot for Opacity.

umpfhhh

The smell is like old concrete and must.

Notice the 'modern' heater in the upper right:also the lights(There was no electricity when this place opened)

The floor is solid. In most parts.Except under the Rotunda.I would have loved to have gone under the Rotunda.

They have been working on stabilizing the bldg.for a long time now.(including such things as wrapping the skylights with rags,then plastic tied with rope)

If you use psychic photography techniques you WILL see orbs,whatever they are,but I have seen them.

I did feel an overwelming sinse of-I don't know what- when I visited.So much,so many had passed through there that I felt summers,sorrow,triumph and heat,dashed hopes and exileration of expected release.

Again,something else that was off limits when I was there.
They sure have come a long way.

I love crosses.Don't remember this from my visit there.I don't think the hospital was open then.So you see,there are things there that will be new to me.

Well, I am really surprised to see this.
Not that Eastern isn't worthy of being featured;;it certainly is.But rather I considered that it technically and officially does not have an "abandoned" status.It certainly was for a time and it looks it.
But Eastern is too solid and too important to knock down.When I was there (visiting,heh heh)about twelve years ago('95 or '96) they were looking for ideas then as what to do with it.But it looks as if tours,Hallowe'en events,history studies etc. have prevailed and as long as they make some money on it to restore it thats' fine with me.

yeah,on the small shot I thought I was looking into a tunnel.

A child's garden of morgues-can you beat that.........

well,ah,thats........
not..............
strangest thing,
but its' a beautiful thing :
as I had stated before,I love murky underground water.So strange though..
Regarding the comments about flesh on the bottom,in tech school(yes,1971)the young man who sat next to me told me of an experience one summer in an outdoor pool.
He said he felt something when he dove to the bottom.He dove to the bottom again with his eyes open and found a blueish bloated body on the pool floor.He reported it to the life guard.No one had been reported missing.
Regarding the comment about suction on a stream bottom,I knew a girl in Sunday School(yes,1968)who drown that way.It took me decades to track the story down.It seems Bond Bread on the hill overlooking Tacony Creek(Phila.)at times took in water that way.
She was about 13.Her brother hanged himself in a Florida jail cell the summer before.He was 16.
I'm surprised at Lynn's comment about institutions killing people and cutting them up,though its' true (don't forget to experiment on them first!)

Wow




(gives the illision of afterburners)

like a scene from a movie : like that stack could be buzzed or bombed or something