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just remember dial 5 for the nite club

[Psssstttt!!!!! Marcia!!!!! Should we tell anyone? ;-) ]

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/03/07/neither-black-nor-white/

I used to ride my sled down the hill next to that stack. Sometimes if there was enough ice on the road, I could almost make it to the bar across the street. Once, my Dad had to stop me from going into the road and getting run over by a car. It was a real thrill as a kid, but the hill seemed to grow smaller, as I grew older! My friends always had to meet somewhere by the bluff, when we were in town. There was as much life as there was death surrounding that place...it supported a lot of families, a bar on every corner and half of the homes surrounding it were built from the same materials, stolen in the thick of the night.

I shot almost the same photo in 1979 for a HS project, mine was from the west elevation and taken from the ground. I like yours better, using the roof top to help draw you into the Cupola. The VA Hospital in East north Port has some beautiful Gothic Architecture as well.

Stupid or LAZY? Seemes they are interchangable when one wishes to put off doing something or to fix anything

There was an upper mezzanine or balcony up there, with a door to the projection room. It was connected to the third floor of the hospital, with the lower part of the theater connected to the first floor.

This is the building behind A building - the A complex was demolished when I arrived at YSH.

I believe this was used as a county morgue, which usually serves a fairly large area, and therefore much larger in capacity than one at a psychiatric hospital.

this is a very TYPICALLY servants stair way... Most Mansions have them... :)

you can tell that the kingdom slept for 100 years because the hooligans graffitied the place while it was napping.

Yes, mot of the working lights made buzzing and humming noises.

2004 was the official closing date - certain departments, wings, etc. might have closed at different times.

Sure have, neat old place.

I use long exposures, which range from 10-30 seconds at around f5 ISO 200, but I've heard many others with shorter exposure times - this might be dependent on the lens being used.

Unfortunately it is often impossible to take infrared shots of places where security is present and there is no time to fiddle with filters, tripods and exposure times... I was thinking of converting an old 300D to an all-infrared camera to avoid this.

Thanks, the colors were digitally toned.