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One of the reasons this place is shut down is because the population of down syndrome people has plumited due to testing that's available for it during pregnancy. Today 95% of down syndrome pregnancies end in abortion.

Hi. I came across your site via twitter. I love it. I love taking photos of abandoned structures on road trips, however I was always afraid of being arrested for trespassing if I were to do what you do. I love your site. I just wanted to acknowledge how great it is and say thank you for doing what you do. This is good stuff. you may reach me at edmazzola@msn.com if you wish to respond. Thank you.

I could remember back in the early 70's, when I was running the coke side door machine, "beating on these door latches" with a sledge hammer. We could put a man on the moon but here I am beating on these doors. One time when I was having trouble with a door latch the "Hot Car Man" came inside my machine to help me beat the door on. I had moved the latch into position and "pinched" my thumb on this latch. The next thing I knew I was laying on the floor of the machine. I had blacked out. I never said anything to my buddy "Hot Car Mike" who himself some years later, died in the steel mill being crushed to death.

Billy (the day nurse) used to give us cans of mountain dew from that fridge to "reward" our med "compliance." Ahh, that Haldol/prolixen cocktail...

Such an odd spot for a bath tub, in the middle of the room

Nice tower. Could fhis be another Carcosa?

Makes sense, thanks Hal!

That's not something I tend to share due to legal repercussions, sorry!

Sorry, I've been renovating the site. I fixed the URL, and thanks for the link!

I give up! Google "USS ATR 89" and look for the Wikimapia entry. There are also many images of the vessel.

There is a picture of the ATR-89 as it appeared as a naval vessel here: http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=40.556082&l...Ex-USS-ATR-89

It appears that it had the steel bow sheathing at that time.



This site also IDs two PCs in the boneyard, plus three LCI(L)s.

Heya, just to bring some clarity into the topic:

those are actually no children coffins. As strange as it may sound - even today, there are sometimes still the remains of former Wehrmacht soldiers to be found. Since theres -literally- almost nothing left, those small coffins are used for the burial.

The three lamps arranged vertically on the mast below the crossed yard are for signalling in conditions of darkness the vessel's size if it is towing, and the size of the barge or other vessel that it is towing. So it is definitely a tug. http://www.bosunsmate....eamanship/lights.php

Okay, heres a more or less literally translated version (there were a couple of phrases that where almost impossible to translate)

Open-air-theatre "Thingstaette"

After the takeover, the "Heiligenberg" was an inherrent part of the nationalsocialistic blood and soil mysticism. After a 12 months construction period, the Reichsarbeitsdienst created - with help of the Heidelberg students - the so-called "Thingstaette auf dem heiligen Berg" (Thingstaette on the holy mountain) on the supposed Germanic ritual place - an open air theatre for NS presentations. Propaganda-minister Joseph Goebbels inducted the Thingstaette on June, 22. in the context of a solstice celebration, declaring it a "true church of the Reich" and "turned into stone Nationalsocialism". Goebbels´ performance, a forest of banners, music and a gigantic choir attracted over 20.000 people into the complex - numbers never matched in later solstice celebrations or Thing games.
In 1936 the expression "Thingstaette" was changed into "Feierstaette Heiligenberg" - the Nationalsocialists had lost interest in the "Thing-movement". It was replaced by movie and radio - a far more effective instrument.

Looking for the graffiti that says, "Tim Burton wuz here"