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..ahhhh, that is because your Are The Giant at Excellent Pictures...
and is that a metal doorknob? Or porcelain? Sheen...

Ohhhh MY GOODNESS; gasped:
- "A New gallery! YAY!" THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Shuttered for so long promising overtake of elements of Nature,
- see green floor, + damp look........

Hey Motts, have you ever come across asbestos in your travels or do you always make sure that the locations you go to don't have it? It seems like deteriorated buildings would be especially dangerous for that.

A Motts classic, the lone chair shot.

"Wet rust chunks" - a very unique description, one I have never heard about anything, until now.

Such a plain looking nurse station, compared to the tile work behind & around it on the walls.

That Spiderman art is nice, as well as that curtain hanging in the window too.

Thanks for the new Gallery Motts!

A huge insect walking up the door!

Whoops - somehow I got the year wrong on that fire. It burned in May 2008, eight months after my visit. Thanks for catching that!

Mr. Motts, I'm a little confused. The opening page says a fire destroyed the building in May of 2007, however on the page to the photos you say they were shot in August 2007. So something is askew with this if it was destroyed in May. how could you have taken photos in August? Just an observation that was driving me nuts!

it breaks my heart y
to see what has happened to this once great resort. i cry everytime I see these photos. I was there as a guest in the late 60's and early 70's during the Christmas and New Year holidays. Bernie Cove (aka Platnikof) was a very unique individual. Don Brower was his second in command (one of the good guys).My dear friends were Toby and Kenny Milgrim(great couple by the way),Norman Ostrin and his wife who owned the store Sarafinas in the hotel, toby also had her store. the Walls who had the coffee shop(Kevin and I beame good friends when I returned in 1991. His father could be a real pain in the ass at times. As time grew on over the years I think he finally respected me. My years working up there were as much fun and laughs as you can imagine. it was me ,flex,Fred Chassman9you can call him Dr.), s
Sammy (3 finger) Rak,Jeffrey Semel(my cousin and best friend. aqlso Dr.), Burton Singer(where the hell are you?), Jeanie and Dotty,Howie and Risa and Bruce, Villy the waiter,Andrew, my dear friends Myron and Shotsie,Harvey Choen(what a shnoz),Lenny and the kitchen guys, Eddie(is the coffee kosher,sure is the Rabbi peed in it), Big George(love Jeanie,"FUCK BERNIE"), my man Jessie, and of course all the chefs who wanted to cut your hands off. i didn't forget Miles(worst waiter in the history of the Pines),Kenny (space cadet) Arinoff, The Savarin brothers, Steve and Jeff, from my hometown, Jewlett, and the young Chassman and Rak boys. Also my dear friend Nelson Kultz(great poker player and played a hell of a hot corner). I replaced big Julie as the best windmill pitcher the Pines ever had. Sorry Jules. I can remember a million other things and people(Qualludes and other wonderful subsyances). I should write a book about my years at this wonderful place and the wonderful people I've met during those years. Haven't forgot about you Steven Aban and the iced tea!! If you read this please contact me at feeny24@gmail.com. Memories, thank god we have them.

Graffiti reflects what was going on in a smashed pissed mind: Massi IDIOT - not so advanced.
Carousel inside have never seen. May be clever after all; if very hot sunny outside, kids still play, go round + round inside.

Yes, thank you so much: Mr. Motts, - and clever thinking too.
Absolutely Laundry! Am thinking of the picture "Basement" too. Maybe the boiled the linen/clothes in a huge copper vessle mounted in an iron container heated with logs from underneath?
There was such an old-school arrangement in the basement of our House (built 1937) when we bought it, and it took three men with slings to get all that metal away and out.
The copper container was placed in the garden, and always planted with Geraniums in summer - and then it was stolen, hahaha - go figure - weighed about 100 kgs.
Copper value! We smirked and sneered.
Suddenly The Contraption makes sense, also.
You are most kind, lovely, polite and accomplished.