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Enter if you dare the Eagle crowned Portal to the Underworld of Power

Kinda like my imagination set off by the way of change a flat car tire...

Looks like a massive dorrway to the coal soaked burned up Flame flilled UNDERWorld

Open Sesameee

Do they make sauseage here ?

from what ? wayward explorers?

NOW HEAR THIS !!
RUN the boilers about to go !!
even the comments are from a long ago ghost time -- creepy

Lets see the squel of Aliens vs Predators here !!

Man this makes my imagination soar--
what if astronauts found an abandoned fusion reactor site on the moon using technology we had not even concieved of yet
Would it look like this ?

You're all bloody sad. Get MSN. If you're so interested in the place just bloody go there, and sit in this 'broom closet'
From Laura and James

wow,beautiful.

something out of one of those B horror movies?not blood i'm sure.but still creepy!
nice shot.

amazing shadows! I love the wide open window !

i too want to know if it was occupied. And, the fact that it is rusted doesnt sit well with me either.... i mean if something bad was in there..... and it rusts, and falls apart..... kind of scary!

Part of the hotels problem was that there is / was absolutely NO parking anywhere for the hotel to continue being a hotel. So, the other hotels around the area received more customers, Although the Sterling was once a Grandiose and had a lot of night life, it died off in the 70's when so many other night clubs popped up (with parking). The pic above is a side entrance.

I live not far from the sterling hotel, I dont remember them saying they were knocking the main building down, I believe they are going to re do the inside and open shops on the ground floor. There used to be a restaurant, a Barber shop and a beauty salon, and if i remember correctly, a mens hat store too. It had turned into an apartment building and the sterling management didnt pay their electric bill (or something like that) and all the occupants (mostly elderly) were removed with no notice from that building, it was very sad . they werent even allowed to take their posessions, the city came in and said - Leave! and that was it. they never went back. Anyway, when the city went back in a year or so later, they saw that someone stole the gigantic chandelere from the main lobby, and a lot of the marble from the walls were missing. (sounds like an inside job to me) But, according to the last thing I heard about it, they are building a parking lot behind it and going to reopen the Hotel.

my grandmother worked here for a long time and she told me of locking people in these cages when they acted up and attacked the staff so this is what she was most likely referring to