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Dear Mr. Motts,
I love your work, but I do miss the stellar titles you has on the photos.
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Any idea who owns it now? I'd like to buy the place and fix it up and live in it.

- jeff
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Hi
I have savely removed two Peerless Magnarc Type F complete projectors I am trying to find information on them. Where would I start I hope to put them on show on at the little musem we have at work. Many thanks in advanced. My email is samueltempleton@tiscali.co.uk
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serenityjane, found this gallery, Its in the UK i think? the name has been changed to protect the innocent ha! The grounds are still full of roses, Have you ever lived near here?
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serenityjane, i meant i am home sick with the Flu, and i took the shot too! You live in Greece! How wonderful! What a lovely place! Are you near the coast? I love the ocean! I live in southeast Texas on the Gulf of Mexico!
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LucieLou, why are you homesick?
I'm homesick too. Where are you from........???
I'm from Uk but live in Greece.......I love looking at UK galleries!
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home sick today so, i thought i would try a gallery that ive never seen,actually didnt think id enjoy, but Motts always brightens the day with his eye for the humorous, and artistic! This is Great! It could actually be the background for a rock concert.
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Places like this should be preserved, not destroyed. It's such a shame. America is so wasteful. Always tearing beautiful old things down and putting up ugly new things. jw, are there any efforts being made to preserve it?
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gerat web site, just thought to let you know that the site looks broken on Opera Mobile Brow ser
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"Are you my mummy?"
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Would LOVE to see a list of before and after pictures of this place. Also what it looked like lit up at night back in the day.
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wow, i can't beleive it. i used to work security in the arcade room over there i remember! damn i moved a couple yrs before it closed. that place was the best, thanks motts! i still remember that one night were that one kid kept rigging the pinball machine that pissed me of so much cuz the kid tried to take all the coins in there and ended up breaking my favorite one that i always played when we were closing up that place. It was that black laggon one and i had the top 3 scores freakin' kids. sad to hear it was abandoned after i moved to haverhill new hampshire. mannn! i forgot about that place until i went looking 4 it online, and its full of coyotes now? i want to kill myself i had such a good time just sitting watching from the corner of the arcade were u usually stood if u wanted to see every thing when my job was security. well... thanks for the site motts it really brought back the memories thanks!
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out of all the photos ive seen lately, this one really got to me, whether this chair belonged to the staff or a patient, as some of the post suggest, its a sad, lonely, reality of someones past. I hope who ever sat in this poor room didnt die scared and totally alone .
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Bye last Kirkbride Building of Mass. :(........I beyond love this site and am so jealous U are able to visit all of these places. I've been looking at it for a few months now anyway but C U have been doing it for years now. I've shared it with others too. You are appreciated.
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It looks like romanization of Japanese words. But they also appear to be a conglomoration of popular characters from various works spanning the world. The person who did these was well-read at least. For instance, the name "Paro" is a female character from an Indian work called Devdas that showed the pain of caste systems inflicted on the most loving of relationships. But most of the names seem to place this individual in the 1970s. Entering a few of the terms into wikipedia brings up things from that time period. Maybe I'm totally wrong. Fascinating though.