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Going through this beautiful pictorial again, those scrappers better be damned careful pulling the windings out of this place... operational or not it's still on the grid!

What you didn't have to tell them what departments were on that floor? "Perfume, Lingerie, Shoes....."

"I'm Hommmme"

She is smiling at me. :)

The construction style of the roof and some of the concrete work just seems more modern than 1925.

That is unreal.

The lack of graffiti is interesting with all the broken windows. Clearly there have been a lot of people through the facility.

That really is an amazing level of decay.

Usually these paintings are creepy but this one is well done.

One of my first jobs, in fact my very first job was running an elevator in a department store. The doors were very similar to these. Had to stand inside by a lever that operated the car, took a lot of practice to land near the floor so people didn't trip over the difference in height. In fact I was instructed to say "watch your step" as people entered and exited so if someone DID fall, we could say that I warned them. But gee, I was only 16 at the time!

and yet it doesn't look like one window pane is broken!

How reassuring that it's "explosion proof"..... I mean they put BABIES in there!!! What did they do before this model was invented? Or more appropriately what happened to make that tag necessary, aside from the marketing angle that is?

That looks like a topographical map!

The color looks almost new if you can disregard the crumbling walls. A beautiful memorial. Thank you for your wonderful tour.