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is it just me or does that wood look sorta new? Everything else is dusty but that wood looks clean.

Not every hospital, even today can give you the BEST in specialized care. My brother died from mental illness and I wish he could have found a great place with "specialized care".

One time, many years ago, my daughter, neice and I all went to see a man they called Stoneman Willie. He used to be a prisoner at the Berks County prison and at the time, they were kind of experimenting with how much famaldyhyde(not sure if I spelled that right)to use. Anyway, they used too much on him and he actually turned as hard as a rock; this was maybe in the 1800's. They still have his body at some funeral home and we went to see him. We were shown to go to this top room of a garage; and there he was. There were caskets all around and we thought it was a storage area so my neice lifted the lid of one and there was an old lady laying in it!! I almost had a heart attack! Just thought I'd share that story.

Beautiful. MOtts, and all this will be gone someday.

It must have really been beautiful in its day. I know we all must move forward but it's still sad to see pictures like these that one day will no longer be.

Seriously, IS that the end?

And ALL this is going to be filled in with dirt?!? I could name alot of things from my area where they did that. Makes me feel wierd, yet sad, to know we're walking on top of things that "used to be" below us.

Hi Sara B.
Unfortunatley there are not any plans of ever reopening the original Enchanted Forest. That is why they are relocating anything that is salvageable and bringing it to a petting farm near by, so they can be enjoyed again. These cups were from the teacup ride that brought you underground into Alice in Wonderland's tunnel.
I don't think the cups turned though, unless that changed after 1967, and they were also all painted different colors. A tea kettle pulled the cups along on a track.
These two cups, along with another one that has been recently donated to the farm, are being fixed so people can sit in them for photo ops.
In the EF there was a Snow White cottage which you entered. A figure of Snow White stood near a fireplace and behind her were the 7 dwarves beds. Some were bunk beds. A figure of Sleepy was still in his bed snoring.
Snow White, the bunk beds, and Sleepy are now at the farm, after someone located where they were.
In the cottage there was an entrance that led you down into the dwarves mine. No boat ride though, you walked down into it.
There were figures of the remaining dwarves and the gems they mined were lit up on the walls near them.
The only boat rides that the EF had that I know of was the Little Toot ride , ( Little Toot was also just donated to the farm recently along with the teacup and some other items), that rode around the lake near the mountain.
The other boat ride was the Ali Baba boat ride.
I think the little boats you got in looked like treasure chests.
The Ali Baba ride and Alice in Wonderland's tunnel were destroyed when they put the mall strip and Jilly's restaurant up. : (

Boy, I get antsie if I'm stuck in the house and don't get out for awhile; imagine how these people felt?

I just finished a book on Christopher Reeve and the first thing I thought of was him when I looked at this chaire; really sad.

Check out those high ceilings! This whole place could be made beautiful if someone had the time and money. That's the only thing that shocks me since I got on yhis site; I just can't believe so many people just "walked away" from these buildings and just let them sit there to fall apart. I just don't understand that.

Since they don't make them like that anymore, why do they let such architecture go down the tubes like that? It's a real shame.

I still think Motts should work for National Geographic or even another magazine like Archeology or something. Mots' photos or just as good or even batter than some I've seen in those magazines.

To us, right now, this seems so old, dark, and creepy, but actually, back then, it probably didn't seem that way to them when they even built the place. We're just used to the "modern look" of todays medical facillities. Then, again, they didn't have the modern techniques of medicine we have today, either.

So Motts, when you go to these places, I assume you have to bring all your own lighting because it's so dark?