1,827 Comments Posted by eldokid@aol.com

Or at least learn how to spell

man, would I love to have read this -

I imagine in it's day, this room was pretty nice. I wouldn't have minded having this room, nice windows to look out, a nice warm radiator by the foot of the bed to keep your feet warm, a nice stand by the bed to hold your book, drink or whatever. Now to look at it and think of being in that bed, watching the season's passing by through those windows, it seems all too depressing. How one photo can exude such emotion, fantastic.

Mr. Motts - how do you deal with the memories of visiting all these places? Doesn't it make you sad to think of all the lives that have been lived, wasted or forgotten in these places? You take wonderful pictures and like myself must have boxes, books and disks of photographs, doesn't looking back over them bring out melancholy even depressing feelings? Sometimes when I look over past photos, I think of that time and the people that were around and get very sad that they no longer are around.

This place looks like it was scorched at some point in time

That photo of the "sun ray lamp" looks a little powerful, what the heck kind of light source was that, a carbon arc or something? Talk about skin cancer, 10 minutes under that thing and you were probably "well done" for sure!

that was supposed to be SIR after Motts. Sorry.

Mr. Motts, Sri - I notice that a lot of your galleries were shot in 2005 but posted at a later date (some years later). Did you spend most of that year traveling and photographing? So many of these galleries have that date, it's hard to imagine that you did any thing else. I guess I'm just jealous. I would love to take a year off from whatever it is I do, to go around and visit these places to capture them before they are demolished. But I guess for now, I will leave that to you (since you ARE the best at it!)

In one photo back called the reception hall, if you look at one of the past photographs, you can actually see this same (I think) bannister and post when it was newer. At least it looks like the same one. Cool!!

At least we know Bob was here in '75! (for whatever that's worth) And if you look closly, is that one of those nasty No-Pest box strips hanging down from the ductwork? At least it was far enough away from the stove so the flies that became UNstuck wouldn't fall in the soup -

There is no way I would walk down this hall, oh wait, on second thought I suppose I would have to just to see what was at the other end.

eeech - this whole room needs a shower

There were even around in the 1950's. An early episode of I Love Lucy called (appropriately) "The Diet" showed one of these in the Ricardo bedroom that Lucy stayed in all day to lose some weight in a hurry.

It's really amazing when these comparison shots were taken in practically the same angle, you can really get an idea of the room. Wow!

In the olden days as they're called, they used to sometimes leave things inside these posts at the end of the stair case because usually they were hollow. I think they were called newlposts, not sure of the spelling. We had one in the house I grew up in and we popped the top off and inside were papers left by the original builders from like 1902. Sometimes they would leave blueprints, notes and other documents pertinent to the structure. It's always nice to find "buried treasure".