234 Comments Posted by rich_edwards79

Great set... thank you for sharing. Definitely looking forward to seeing the products of your trip.

They look like stone or concrete guards, to protect the corners of the walls on the narrow entrance from trolleys, vehicles... whatever. I used to work in a postal sorting office and all the doorways had these, partly to round off the corners so that your big trolley of mail or whatever wouldn't get caught on it. They're quite common in factories and hospitals too in my experience.

I love the composition of this one.

It looks like it may have been used in a play... did this prison have a theatre or anything?

That is some very freaky perspective...

Contrast that carpet with the ones in the Pines lol

ewwww...

I can visualise the warden walking down the endless rows of cells, jangling his keys and banking on the bars with his nightstick. "Lights out!"

... of course I speak from having seen too many prison films, not personal experience ;-)

That is an amazing shot.

Odd design. Usually prison blocks seem to have two 'walls' of cells facing one another across an atrium, with translucent roof. This one seems to be better in that it possibly gave the inmates a view through those full-length windows, though possibly the cells were built back-to-back and therefore didn't have their own windows onto the outside...

Okay, I googled this and all I could find were half-a-dozen eBay listings... it looks as though this was an electric learning aid from the 1970s that quizzed you on maths questions, and would have originally had a red LED display on the front, like a vintage pocket calculator. Before someone lobbed it at a wall that is. One of those auctions stood at about $50!

Damn that is cool! Reminds me of one of those old eight-track machines that fetch a small fortune now in retro shops. Too bad it's ruined, would probably be worth a bit now...

"Cybernetic Systems" - somehow the hi-tech name doesn't fit with this relic of the analog era - but then this may have been the height of technology when it was new!?!

There doesn't seem to be much of the water damage that wrecks so many old buildings. I wonder if the roofs are still maintained?

In the UK half of it seems to end up on eBay...

Now this one makes me think of cold water...