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Beautiful Shot

Interesting..

WOW THAT CHAIR IS SCARY!

Very sad. :-(

Looks like a film from the late 60s.

It does look like a chin strap to me too.

I am a lurker, on this site, so you guys don't see much of me, but this is very disturbing. I feel sad for students like that. Just think that they have to live like that. Its soooo sad. :-(

of course years ago there was no counter-aj jr installed that to grow plants on for seed starting for his farm in harveys lake-still exists today i think-also the windows went down to the floor, that heating system was installed in the 1970s for the seeds.

Oh my goodness,
This is was the best place in the sordoni suite-this was aj's rose/orchid garden-it was a year round conservatory where he grew roses in the winter, and orchids and palms in the winter-at night when the couple would entertain they would light candles, and have dim lit white xmas lights and host cocktails out in there-I went to some parties here and it was beautiful looking down at the city at night and there was a wall fountain that trickled water-it was just so peaceful. This was never the presidential suite-it was the apartment of Senator and Mrs. Andrew Sordoni-they were lovely people and very good friends of my husband Herbert and I-these photos bring back such good memories. Bertha Merrieweather Reilly

This is Sen. Andrew Sordoni's apartment on the top floors of the old tower. I can remember being in this apartment many years ago-and I mean many-the sordoni family were friends of ours and we used to ahve card parties here-at one time, there were to sets of tiffany stained glass windows, the staircase banister was gilded in real gold leaf, he had the most equisite antique furniture and decor(I was left some things by his wife) She died in the 1980s and AJ Sordoni died in the 1970s, after that aj's kids held it, until they held a sale to sell everything else around 1995. Was never used as a hotel room though. There was no presidential suite-all presidents were guests of aj sordoni-kennedy, eisenhower, hoover, and coolidge all did stay here in the sordoni apartment-mrs, sordoni was such a lovely hospitable woman-of course my favorite thing in his apartment was the indoor conservatory rose garden-which at night was lit with candles and electric christmas like bulbs, later his son installed tables to start seeds on for his farm-still exists today-Aj grew roses in the winter, and orchids and palms in the summer, it was the most surreal place I was ever in. These picts all though they look like a desolate old ruin-bring memories back to me, Thank You so much it means so much-Bertha M. Reilly <3

As always another brilliant gallery. Keep up the good work Motts! Thank you again for always amszing us!

Like my comment in the first photo, I never understood why we were made to climb these stupid ropes. We were like 10 or 11, already at the most awkward age anyway and this middle aged gym teacher wanted us to climb up these things and if we didn't or couldn't he was right there with that wooden paddle to smack us in the ass! If you smacked a kid with a wooden paddle now, the parents would be sue crazy.

I have tried twice to include a link to the site I am about to tell you about and lost my info instead. AD Nelson's post reminded me that I have a site that has pictures of Chernobyl. The site is Kidd of speed and is run by a young lady named Elena. She has made multiple trips into the restricted area. Her father was a scientist for the Soviet Union who helped to assess the radiation present. It was noted that right down the middle of a paved road was safe, So Elena took a meter with her and rode her motorcycle into the area. She also has taken pics and posted on this web site. Hope you can find it . My link works great sorry I could not post it.

I would have loved to have those old lab cabinets in my shop for storage or even my house. I think they are just gorgeous (restored of course).

I'm with JackieB. I think they were so old that there was no use for the chairs or it's parts. Many of these children could not even hold up their own head so the chairs were tall and had multiple padded areas to protect the child. They were an extension of the child. So in that respect they were not creepy at all.