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Everything here just looks very forboding - it all seems very grey and square and utilitarian

Those are organ grilles above the doors. A pipe organ sat behind there.

wow. real discussions on a message board. who would've thunk it?

Haha yeah, reminds me of End Of Days where they attempt to sacrafice the chosen one on the altar.. Hmm

i love looking at the trees too! those kind of chimneys become structurally unsafe and often have to be taken down.

who gives a shit it's just a old broken down building , kids got nothing else to do. i dont see anyone putting any money up to fix it. it will be demolished anyway. doesn't matter who trashes it.

Donna---was there a life guard when you were there---a blonde named Halina?

I lived in the Ritz in 1980 & 81 what a hell hole. we had to sleep with lights on so the cockroaches wouldn't come out. There was a life sized mural drawn on my wall of a junkie shooting up--real nice to wake up to.--Upgraded in 82 across the street from the hotel--forgot what the place was called.

Tom Tom is dead on accurate about the pool at night !!

As Donna stated above...the cry of "IMMIGRATION" actually happened on numerous occassions. The Kitchen steward Alan (Hunt??) was a total A-hole. The only way to get even was to empty out all the illegals from the kitchen, typically minutes before lunch , as nearly 1,000 guests were about to stuff themselves. The benefit of doing this before lunch was so they'd also be screwed short handed for dinner the same night and breakfast the next morning. It was a helluva payback. That was the poorest run kitchen, the Bd. of health could have shut it down at anytime.

when its beyond repair, they usually turn it into staff housing--at least that's what it was like from 1980-82

Like Donna the lifeguard, I too worked at the Pines from 1980 to 1982 as a busboy. What a fun time---great place to work & spend the summer---party at the Chalet & grow up fast. I remember Rock the bellhop & Tom the waiter too....Also my dining room buddies; Gary M. Hi-Guy (aka Jay S., Dave R. & Steve L.
Been vacationing up there at the Villa Roma the last few years.

Definitely good advice is bring a friend or bat to explore - I did sec. at one of the site and I can't tell you how many drug addicts I had to get out the bldgs with the police- that was usually the worst- there were always needles..
and I never got the idea of why get high at a spooky place..but it's abandoned they go there

Now usually i am not afraid of the dark but that pic makes me want to scream "RUNNNNNNNNNN!!!"

Kinda reminds me of one of the bldg at NSH- I think the area was an dining room