66 Comments Posted by joy

When places get abandonned, couldn't they just donate some of the good furniture to a local charity or school or something?! Feels like such a waste... looks cool though for sure

If you think about it, the Third Reich really isn't that long ago... people age and die, but stuff last much longer. Here in France the sunday flea markets sell all kinds of old postcards and books for cheap, with writings, stamps, notes and all. Fascinating glimpse at something frozen in time.

This shot has a fairytale-illustration-like feel to it! The house looks almost unreal...
I feel so lucky that you're around to show us these beautiful places, Motts. Thanks for being a constant in this crazy world. Seriously, this site is the greatest.

With regard to Hittman Medical Systems, I found this article about Fred Hittman which include the following info:

"The company went public in the late 1960s and became Hittman Corp. in 1971, with four operating divisions: Hittman Nuclear and Development Corp., Hittman Associates Inc., Hittman Medical Systems, and Nuclear Battery Corp."

http://articles.baltim...-battery-engineering

However, there seems to be two other companies with the same name in the US, so I don't know if what I found was the one?

Can I just say I'd love to have this as my desktop wallpaper, Mr Motts? High def if it's not too much trouble...

What's that on the left? A storage room under the stairs?

"Kudzu was first introduced to the United States in 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The Soil Erosion Service recommended the use of kudzu to help control erosion of slopes which led to the government-aided distribution of 85 million seedlings and government-funded plantings of kudzu..."
https://en.wikipedia.o...in_the_United_States
Kudzu root contains starch and can be made into many different dishes. But it's not exactly a staple food. I'm Chinese and I hardly ever eat kudzu products.

This is fantastic! Some of my favorite pictures to take are of old windows with so much life outside! Beautiful!

One of the most frightening thing about the human race is how we can be conditioned to accept almost anything, in order to survive with our mind and body relatively intact. Things done a certain way because it was necessary, convenient, and practical...

To think these used to be people. Maybe an anthropologist can tell what lives they led by analysing the remains.

OMG the i386! We were taught how to use those in primary school! Mostly DOS commands and reading/writing floppy disks. It was the 90s and I remember going to my Mum's office to draw on a Windows 95 PC, while complaining about the technological backwardness of our school.

Is Co Malocas talking about sad blind corn? I don't see the connection

Graveyards in general tend to have very good soil for plant growth... but where I come from, large trees right on top of a grave is very bad luck. Descendents are supposed to visit family graves every year to trim excess vegetation.
I wonder how old these graves are on average? Maybe direct descendents have moved away and forgotten them?

The floor looks very thin and damaged. How do you walk safely through here?

When I saw the title Master Shocker I thought it was excellent theme naming on Motts part. But OMG the manufacturer actually named their machine that?! Made me feel weird.
Very nice quality material though. Looks new even after decades of neglect.

Yep. The table doesn't include the newer synthetic elements number 104 to 118 since the school was closed in 1991. Also the symbol for Lawrencium Lw was changed to Lr in 1997.