60 Comments Posted by nathan

The line of the bow is straight, or at least close to. That puts it somewhere between 1915 and 1930-40. After that you started seeing the forward swept curvy bows because they were more efficiant at cutting through the water.

Radiator?

Without proper upkeep (depending on the construction of course) chimneys can start to deteriorate. Perhaps when they upgraded to a more modern form of heating (they would have had to at some point...can you imagine trying to heat that place with wood even in the 50's?) they took them down so they wouldn't have to worry about a stray brick beaning someone out for a stroll.

Those splotches are odd though, like water balloons full of poo were lobbed at the wall.

I dont trust that hallway, it's hiding something.

Pity, I didn't think they gave anything away as far as location...and it was an interesting bit of info...

Motts, did you delete some of the comments on this picture?

Juls, check the link in one of the above comments. This is kind of a running gag on this site that started with the picture in the above link.

When I was younger my mother took me to several abandoned opera houses in various towns. The things often were in worse shape than this. One of the coolest things I remember about doing that though was going up on stage and singing aria's from various operas and filling the halls with music after they had sat silent for (in some cases) over half a century.

Wow! A whole 5 hours free!! (fine print on the red sticker)

Ghosts from yesteryear....
I love imagining all the stories that took place in these old abandoned buildings...that's why this site is such fun. You can imagine things the way they were. Imagine the people that lived/worked within the walls of all these old buildings. People that are gone forever, their stories forgotten.

It's wonderful they're going to rennovate the building rather than just knock it over and build another...

You've got to remember, what we would consider beutiful architecture nowadays was taken for granted back in the day. That was just the way you put buldings together. No one would have thought anything of it. I think most people that lived and breathed in the days when that sort of architecture was considered "plain" would be horrified by the boxes we work in nowadays.

It's actually quite tragic when you think about it, these toothbrishes are just waiting patiently for their owners to come back for them. Always waiting patiently...

Kind of redundant though, dont you think? The mooring line to keep that hulk from floating away?