1,827 Comments Posted by eldokid@aol.com

Holey Floors still fascinate me. . .and give me bad dreams (which I do enjoy!)

Now that ceiling is odd. . it looks like hardwood flooring. I can understand why you kept returning to this building, it's beautiful.

Yes. this place is awesome!

I hope that's not the one you took a nap on! Love the ceiling.

Great way to end the week. . .with a new gallery! Thank you! BTW, these photos are several years old, is this building still standing or has it been demolished?

@ money ~ I hope you meant to type "What". . . that said, this is really cool. I would have had a hard time leaving that behind.

regular clothing store mannequins had holes in their feet so you could put the pole from the stand through there so (s)he could stand up. I know this from my window dressing days. Usually the hole was in the butt (no, really) which was annoying sometimes trying to position and dress these. I used to draw crowds when I was changing windows trust me! Sometimes the smaller ones, like for children's wear, had them in the feet, I suppose it depended on the manufacturer.

or other body part

this is too gruesome to think about. . . but still cool

I'd like to have an embalming table in my dining room for those intimate candlelight suppers

That looks like an old DOS monitor to me but I could be wrong. I wouldn't mind having this in my bathroom at home, that is if it could even fit in there.

No wonder people had back problems!

@ BKW ~ I believe the old mattresses had handles to make it easier to flip over. It was common practice those years to flip your mattress every few months or so in order that it would wear evenly. I think they are made different now and you don't have to do that. I recall when they first came on the market, an actual selling point was that you "don't have to flip your mattress!"

Jay Leno is a big fan of steam powered machinery, cars, etc. and I believe he has a machine similar to one of these. I saw a video of him starting one of these up, pretty cool. I guess when you have money to burn like him, you can collect this stuff to restore and play with.

Thanks for the link above to the story of the man that climbed one of these. That was s pretty harrowing story! I can almost guess which stack it was looking at the missing bricks at the top of the one.