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I prefer a cell with a little angle to it.

Magnificant doors. Fairly big place.



start the time machine

Not JUST Rhode Islanders, Little Rhody Girl! I grew up and still live in Connecticut, and I remember taking family trips to Rocky Point. I can remember once going through the Hauted House with my cousin, but my favorite Rocky Point memory is of its carousel, because that was the first merry-go-round I ever saw that had all kinds of different animals on it, not just horses. It was wonderful! When I first heard that Rocky Point was going to close, I wondered what was going to happen to that carousel and all its animals, would it be sold intact, or the animals sold off individually.

I guess Rocky Point's famous Shore Dinner Hall is gone now, too.

Stunning beauty.

Great find.

"It is appointed to man (women & children) to die once."
--Bible

That thing has fallen and it can't get up.

Like an old Sea Chest.

Things have changed over the years regarding funerals and burials.
Some of you may still remember when they would flick the switch and the mechanism would automatically lower the casket into the grave by means of belts. They don't do that anymore.I say it is to give the grave workers more time to do thier job,especially if there is a snag.But an old timer at a burial last summer told me they don't do it anymore because of a couple of cases where the severly bereaved jumped into the grave after the casket.

ummm,yellowy...

Let us not forget the syndrome of ages past wherein people APPEARED to be dead, but were not. Some WERE buried alive,but precuations were taken,such as holding a Wake (delay burial incase person revives)or running a string down into the casket with a bell at the other end above ground,with an attendant camping-out standing by (graveyard shift)
In Greenmount (Phila.),there is a spot I dubbed "The Hillside of Death" because of the large number of interments there in the summer of 1998,even with concrete bunkers and enbalming,you could still trace the stench.Could be why people used to get bombed at funerals in the old days.

And I agree: nice poem.

That be old cloth.

My oldest brother (well,actually,both brothers)and I both like cemeteries.IT's like the time we were standing in Greenmount (my favorite;I want to be intered there;better start preparing) and I made the obvious remark "Why do people go to these great lengths?" His reply : " Well, no one WANTS to be forgotten"
Just a thought.......................................

That's useful.

I wonder what these people considered regarding thier remains here.Did they consider it would always be regal and off-limits?Or if enough time past,such as it has,and it fell into obscurity and disrepair,such as it has,would a small smile come to the corner of thier mouth regarding people such as us ,regarding what they left behind,so, as all is not lost.

Great stuff

Grossingly intriquing.

Glad you pointed that out; I thought this shot was "down-there"

Hey1 now thats' something.