1,827 Comments Posted by eldokid@aol.com

Anyone thinking "Metropolis"?

This place facinates me and I would love to get email from anyone that has stories to tell about it, good or bad.

Tie a horse to the front of that and I bet you could win a few races at Saratoga!!

It looks like a cross between a copier and a hot plate -

The tomogram is the picture; the tomograph is the apparatus; and tomography is the process. An apparatus in which the x-ray tube and film are moved in opposite directions during an exposure so that only a single plane of tissue remains in focus during the exposure. Other planes above and below are blurred by the motion.

Love decaying technology!

WOW -first time, first comment! Why do I keep coming back here? To see the fantastic photographs? To be moved by the writings and history of a place? Or just to take in all this emotion and feelings and wish that I had the time and ability to do this! Thank you, Mr. Motts for living the life I cannot.

Wow -Shaun do tell more! I would love to hear of your experiences, if you feel like writing send me an email. (I hope this isn't violating any rules)

Now that I look again, the radio was at the top next to the television, so that second door underneath was probably for record storage. I doubt it was equipped with Stereo as that didn't arrive until 59 or so.

My father was a TV repair man in the 50's and 60's and I remember these sets vividly. That door under the picture tube was a phonograph, you can see the tone arm hanging down. This probably played 78's MAYBE 45's. The other side probably held a AM/FM radio. This was the late 50's answer to an entertainment center. There were no VCR's at the time. We were the first ones on the block to have color TV and I remember everyone coming over Sunday night to watch "Disney's Wonderful World of Color" show as it was called, Tinkerbell would fly around and splash color all over, it was a BIG THING back then!! One of the few shows broadcase in color. And the proper way to "deactivate" a picture tube is from the back. Just snap off the end of the long thin tube and you'll hear the suction going in. Doing it from the front either with a rock or your foot makes it "implode" as the inside is a vacuum. (I learned a lot from my dad!)

Actually, I think this looks pretty neat and with a good clean up and a fresh mattress, I wouldn't mind sleeping in one now.

The stuff bad dreams are made of

looks like one of those old check writing machines that embossed a check with the amount so you didn't have to write it

or body parts

Bert and Erine were gay - -