217 Comments Posted by jason

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High ceilings allow the rooms to be cooler in the summer months. Back in the days when this place was built, they had no air conditioning. The only way to keep the place somewhat cool was to have high ceilings with transoms that allowed the heat buildup at the highest points to escape.
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AND YES IN FACT THIS PLACE DOES APPEAR TO BE ABANDONED BC I JUST WATCHED A YOUTUBE VIDEO OF "THE UNKOWN CAMERA MAN" WHO WENT HERE, SO AGAIN YES IT'S ABANDONED........
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So is this building watched or patrolled by cops or security? Is it easy to find a way in? Me and my brother want to go here to explore it, we will be coming from edgewood, md so I want and need to kno these details please.
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Heh , Pass By Here All The Time What I Find Strange Is How Theres A Light Bulb Sticking On Th eWall On A Shack And I Wonder How Is It Still Running.
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I think the producers of "Life Without People" would be interested in this place.
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The ceiling looks like the bottom of a UFO. Wonder what that light looked like.
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I was just about to ask in the last frame how you lasted down here with no breathing protection. Especially when you said the flashlight lit up the spores floating around. Risky at best.
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Wow that's cool. I'd have been hard pressed not to just go ahead and open that bottle of fizz. Wonder what's in that box to the left, more booze?
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I'm just over 40, been building computers for 20 of them, and even I didn't know what a Telex was until hitting the WiKi. Long story short on this thing: the world's first texting phone. Very interesting.
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Nice new photos! Really enjoy your photography
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Well as tragic as this is, everyone needs to keep things in perspective. As a former Florida Gulf Coast resident, I've lived through decades worth of hurricanes and destruction. We always rebuild. East of New Orleans from Bay St. Louis, MO to Pensacola, FL, people rebuilt after Katrina like they always had after a major hurricane: within months. So why is the 9th Ward still looking like this?
Ephemera: Desire
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"Get in, Get out" - that's probably what the feller waiting for you to bend over for the soap has on *his* mind....
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There was a 1990s US Justice Department study of 15 states that showed 67% of former inmates released from state prison had returned at least once in the following three years. I haven't seen a study about federal inmate statistics. But that number jives with a California study that showed 70% of its state inmates returning in the first three years.

I'd like to know the return rates between first timers, second timers, third timers, and so-on. Many hardened long-term criminals actually feel more secure in jail and do a crime after release to return to what they've known longer: being securely confined than being free with life's risks and trying to cope with the outside world. Sad when you think about it.
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I am amazed that the castle has managed to stay in "pretty good" shape for what it has been through...
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I envision a Victorian lady sitting here reading a book while watching her children play in the garden...