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squeaky clean!!

what a majestic plant!!

Rose yes + that green skirting board - how did they get their color ideas back then? It is fine....

Ah...the days when one was required to dress appropriately..waistcoats,white shirts and ties. And I'm betting their shoes were like mirrors. I served my time as a toolmaker back in the mid fifties and I remember a few elderly shop floor foremen who still continued to wear the traditional bowler hat...I believe it's called a Derby in the US. Also the works manager and under manager who being quite old still wore the wing collared shirt and bow tie. How times have changed,by the time I retired a lot of the management at the company I worked for were allowed,and chose to wear Jeans.

Just look at the design of this theater...the tile is in remarkable condition, the combination chairs/desks are elegantly made, and the ladders and shallow stairs help to compress the space to maximize occupancy. Really good architecture and design happened here, but it usually did back in the day.

For me, the point of interest in this scene is not so much the tools but that of the white tiled walls. This is typical of an age when people took an intense pride in things like generating stations and engine houses to the point where they came close to being as clean hospitals and you could literally 'eat off the floor'. I once knew an old guy who in his youth worked as an assistant in the engine room of a cotton mill here in the north of England. He told me that at the end of the shift when the mill workers were all going home,the four engine men had to stay behind to clean up and polish the engine ready for the next day....and this without pay! it was an accepted duty and part of the pride of being an engine man. I think the unions would have something to say about that today. So those tiled walls point to the fact that in its day that room would have gleamed. It must have been quite something to see.

I wonder if the ornamental work that has survived could and will be salvaged? If so, they better hurry!

Yes, I cannot understand why would anyone want to destroy the beautful things we create that separate us from other animals.

what are those pillars above the ceiling?

I actually have someone who I used to know who lived in that complex, he is gone by now, couldnt contact him, dont mnow where he vanished to or from.

I'm confused with all the reference to the number 666, I know the obvious ref in the Bible, but this marker is either 637, 667, or 697. I can't tell the middle number is to botched for my old eyes!! But there's no 665, or 667 with an empty place to show where 666 was?? Is that what everyone is trying to say?? That 666 was intentionally not used?? Clue me in!!!

That's beautiful, Tammy B!! Change your hear (listening) to here (a place) and you've got a hit!! Very sweet!!

I see her!! Light colored top, white skirt, her belt!!!! How very sad!! Thank God things are changing!! I hope d.t. doesn't throw us back 50 years!!! God bless the poor tortured souls resting here!! RIP Sweet Peace!!!

Always good stuff, thnx again! Best of luck with your book. I suggest a series of books on the different types of abandonment. You certainly have enough quality material.

I have a Dodge truck like this one. Very cool.