209 Comments Posted by liza

Hey, I hope everybody went back to Lynne's comment and looked at those great pictures of Motts. He is so tidy.

It looks like a large opening into a smaller space, rather than a small opening into a larger space. Fascinating.

It looks like the frame of the sky lite once had paintings surrounding it as well. Must have been quite difficult to paint those.

Wow, is there really a patron saint of prisoners?

The door does look skinny when you look at the opening and the amount of wood under the hardware. Is it only a partial door? You can see brick behind it. On the other doors you could tell it was bigger than the opening, but this one looks odd.

I suspect the paintings were done in oil paint and the walls in latex. The oils would hold up better to the temperature changes that make the latex paints peel.

Operation Theatre of the Damned

The chair stands alone. Still fighting to hold up the debris long after the war is lost.

Great shot. It doesn't look real.

So sad that it is gone and the new condos are crappy construction and wil probably be taken down someday as well. A lttle care and maintenance could have saved the whole thing.

Wow, again. This one , comparitively uninteresting photo drew a lot of awesome comments! Everybody must have been holding it in for awhile. This is a great and compelling website. I find it interesting more for the lost architechture than the "horror stories". I do not find the other types of buildings less scary or thought provoking. Horrible nasty things can happen anywhere. How about the industrial accitdents at some of the huge blast furnaces and breweries. Motts goes where he goes and there are a lot of old, abandoned mental hospitals because of political actions.

I am sure the newly renovated areas were not built with the old thick lathe and plaster or concrete block walls. Probably just sheetrock and insulation. Too bad they did not act sooner and could have saved the old and better construction.

Tardy to the party, but I just want to point out the stains on the stokes basket. Looks like it could have been a rather traumatic injury to the last patient. Or not, But it is a mighty stain.

What if Motts walked in and the toe tags had his name on them? !!!

Roll out the barrels, and we'll have a barrel of fun . . .

All this talk of beer is making me thirsty.

Keeps the zombies cool now.