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It always makes me chuckle anyways. :-)

Consider it done.

That's why I am always surprised when they leave this stuff behind.

Motts, I bet you could sell this one to Autechre or Solvent or Radian (or some similar band) for one of their CD covers!

I used to take people from E Building to the movies here. I remember seeing "The Love Bug", "Daniel Boone",and "The Wizard of Oz", among others. I also remember it being very noisy, with staff being too busy trying to keep people in their seats to be able to watch any of the movie themselves (which is just as well if it's "The Love Bug")

beautiful!! well worth the wait for new pic!!! keep up the excellent work Mr. Motts

said to myself just gonna look not comment enjoy the pics..............but dang this one scared the bejesus out of me.........one of the best ones yet!!!

My clearest memory of this room is seeing a local rock band, the Blue Max, playing a dance here, while people with big, happy smiles on their faces, kept banging into my legs with their wheelchairs, all in tune to the music !

What's strange is that during the five years I worked at BSS, no one ever used the mezzanine seating. It was considered a safety risk. I do recall reading somewhere that in its much earlier days, BSS had events open to the entire town- perhaps they used this seating back then.

Sometimes it looked like this after one of those dances they had here in the 70's. Well, maybe not quite this bad... but close.

When I first saw this photo, I thought it was a row of rusty tanks in a factory.

The old bag? Was it a WalMart bag?

If I could i would take all those babies and give them all my love.
Lynn, you must be a pretty spectacular person to work in such a place, I know i wouldn't last 5 minutes, it would just break my heart. The last time i volunteered at anything was when i was 12 and i went to an old peope's home to keep some of them company for the afternoon. while i was there an old lady died and it was almost a physical pain. she shouted for her husband (who had been dead for 40 years) said "there you are" and went. I haven't done it since, i thought it was best due to the fact that i find it very easy to form an emotional attachment with anyone i meet.
Like you for instance, you can bet your last penny that you will stick in my head for whatever reason because of the work you do and it's pretty much guaranteed that i will tell some family member or friend about the stuff you do and say on this site!

I agree with Lynn. Here in the uk it was not uncommon for doctors to tell parents that their physically impaired/deformed child had died at birth. Parents left the hospital grieving for a loss that hadn't occurred, many of the children were placed in "asylums" but in some cases they were drowned.
In other cases babies and children were physically dragged from their parents and removed from their care all due to the fact that physically or psychologically they did not conform to society's view of normal children.
In a majority of the cases it was under medical advice that children were admitted to these places, although there were parents who were willing to "rid themselves of such a burden".
Its such a sad thing. I knew i loved both my babies before i met them, i know that i could never turn their care over to anyone else.

My mum used to have a bike EXACTLY like the one the old bag is riding in The Wizard Of Oz....i'm pretty sure it folded in half too......oh the shame of it!