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The nurse wants to retrieve the ribbon for a little girl, but she just can't seem to get past the wheelchair. She's stuck. In time. Forever.

That door is OLD!

On a good day, a kind nurse would get out the popcorn basket and a trusted patient would make popcorn for the others. Or s'mores.

Why did they put the heating elements (steam radiators) right below the windows. Seems they did it everywhere! I lived in an old house and that's where they all were. Not very energy efficient, eh?

Oh, Motts. Can't you see how much we all appreciate you and your talent?
Thank you for another wonderful collection.

Seems to me the zombie comments are a little levity in some of these incredibly disturbing images. Sometimes they're the only bright spot in some of these shots.

Mama, or maybe that's blood from someone trying to scratch their way through the door. That's what came to my mind as soon as I saw it. *shiver*

Wow! The wallpaper looks fantastic! Highly recommended! Everyone who sees my Motts wallpaper automatically gets a lecture on his site and the link is sent immediately. Heee Heee. They always comment on how beautiful, but sad his shots are.

Thanks again, Motts, for a wonderful trip I couldn't take myself. Everyone agree?

Wow, the place where the patient lays down reminds me of a coffin lid. Creepy. Beautiful shot, Motts.

Yeah, I thought of the bean bag chairs too, when looking at the little blue ones. They look small, like for kids. Could it be that the blue ones were where the idea for where beanbag chairs came from?

My first kiss was in a white gremlin with an organge stripe!
Ahhh, Memories, light the corners of my mind...mistly watercolor memories...we had to sing that at 8th grade graduation!

What an exceptional shot, Motts!

how true, Tara, I was thinking the same thing. Poor person with the walker.

wanderer and friends, you are so right, this is all like an an
incurable affliction, whatever angle you want to come at this from.

liking history, tradition, being an architecture freak, artists,
photographers, tech types, documentarian obssessives,
interest in abandoned places, sarcastic blogging, pointing out
the folly of governmental mentality in the shadow of Art, particularly the
unparralelled granduer of the absolute marriage of finance and art
represented by places that are historically spotlighted here on Opacity,
well... jeez there is is just alot to like about what you do here
motts

the enthusiasm of people's reaction, and the venue you maintain to
allow and encourage that is totally amazing, i am guessing you might get alot of heat about some aspects of your enterprise?

the ratcheted level of politic in most of my own posts at least, may
make things seem to be of a particular ideological slant for
this Halcyon forum at large, but i think it is great if people of differing views
post too, i think anyone who takes the time to notice any change at all in their immediate physical and cultural environment, for better or worse, is a good thing. No matter what one's views, and i think
skepticism is in short supply in general, so i always like to listen to people i disagree with. I wish there were more here, in theory at least,
not because i like to argue [I do] but because i wish someone out there has any suggestion about what to actually DO about somewhere
like Halcyon Hall....i've laid out my best scenario involving huge amounts of glow in the dark paint......

the idea that somewhere as amazing as this could exist so readily
out of nowhere, and be the engine that literally created Millbrook,
from a true folly of an idea.....that thisart was a routine feature oF
America 130 years ago, and to now see that TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO
GET RID OF IT, WILL NOW BANKRUPT SOMEONE, OR MILLBROOK ITSELF...

??? for once even a motormouth like me is speechless.
what happened to the nation that used to build intercontinental railroads, the hoover dam.?.......we used to BUILD shit in this country
dammit! what the hell happened??!! Now we CAN'T EVEN TEAR SHIT
DOWN
without everyone getting a screwing, except a few who profit.
this a lamentable feature of how things have flattened out
not just economically, but culturally as well.

i sat at the bar tonight and listened to a construction deal go down,
clearly a shady scumbag deal on the part of the individual in a
position to red or greenlight the proposal, and yet absolutely the cost of doing business for the honest, and hardworking contractors who
have to go through this corrupt ballrub BS that seems to have become
standard procedure here and everywhere else.

I like a little bit of corruption. You need some, to keep everything else honest. I get it. But it has become the OVERIDING FEATURE
of so called progress. Think about if today's graft applied to the
1891-93 construction of Halcyon" They'd still be building it!!!!!!!

the way i see it ..... we may never defeat these swine, but we surely don't have to JOIN them.....

we may differ politically, but you can't tell anyone who really wants to, that they may not enjoy the late summer stars on a balmy evening amidst the grassy splendor of a particularly enchanting little victorian corner of south millbrook....that has been going on here since before
1892 , and has never been contingent on anybody's goddamned
permission, anymore than the certainty that birds will fly and sing, young people will fall in love, and the sun will rise at dawn every morning.

put up all the fences you want to, people should and will continue to
do and go wherevertehell they want, here and everywhere else
in this goddamned country, as well they should. I am so sick of the RULE CRAZY
mentality that has been unquestionably embraced to the point of it
becoming the NATIONAL RELIGION!

I know there needs to be Laws, and Rules. Most reasonable people
try to follow most of them, and take thier chances on the rest.
JUST PLEASE STOP expecting people to WORSHIP your
F@#%ing Rules, OK?

ok, a cyberound for the house, on me!

What an awesome shot!

Do you know when they
plan to tear it down? We were just there a week ago. It's falling apart and delapitated but I will be so sad to see this place go.