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I love this shot. The light has an ethereal quality in the far room, like a ghost of its past, while pouring from the ceiling sun and nature awaken the room in its slow return to open sky. My favorite of any urban exploration/abandoned building photography that I have come across. Just brilliant!
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Movies changed every Friday. Thursday night we had to carry the cans containing the next weeks movies to the projection booth. They were heavy and it seemed like a long way up there.
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I bet it was beautiful in it's day. how many people/lives climbed these steps.
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going by the fact the place has been abandoned for some time and there are vines growing inside, I would say the glass is dirty.
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Carolyn, picture me rolling my eyes at you because you leave some really stupid comments here
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Yes, Mary Rose, concur - always thought so too....
"Verden" -
an awesome, beautiful, cool, delicious, elegant and fine name.
This view: love!
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Spider web breaks like
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Verden. Don´t remember when the pseudonym was changed to Greystone Park Psychiatric Center.
I love the name Verden, always think it is so clever and wonderful.
I know German, and werden is a great word: to be going to be, will, turn into, become and grow etc -
I know Spanish; verde: green.
"To Become Green" thought, - and there IS a lot of green.
This is my favorite place.........still.
Many threads are so cool!
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Nice lamps. Soft light.
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Speaking of dressing up. I was the head usher(chief of service) wore tux. Other ushers had uniforms cleaned every week, inspections every Sat., military style,shined shoes etc.
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Worked here as usher in 56&57;. That is a ladder. We climbed that ladder to change light bulbs that simulated twinkling stars. There was an organ that came from a pit below. I have many great memories of the palace. Thanks for these photos and the trip down memory lane.
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That shot of the mausoleum with the four Doric columns and the name "Carroll," just wow. I would love to know who that family was and what they did. I found the next shot after that, the one with the three mausoleums, really poignant. Those apparent upper class people resting with the "regular" plot right in front of them with two tombstones.

It's almost like walking down a street and seeing upper class townhomes on one side and apartments on the other side, except nobody is outside walking around them. Just goes to show you that everyone winds up equal at the end of life.
Ephemera: Cemetery Safari: The Calvary Metropolis
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Ohhh dear....yes....and the light-fixure is verdigris so must be copper?
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Yes, concur, hayden - this Northwood Asylum really IS very special and ALL the pictures are great.....but my God does this get to me.........too.
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Yes - floor collapsed....and The Lamp fell...it did not break. Weird, too.