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Oh my are you the Pete Moss from my old school? lol

yes there really was someone named Pete Moss...

cool

Don't know about the soap dispenser business, the picture is fantabulous, though. Good eye Motts!

good composition Motts

arresting atmosphere

it is simply amazing how quickly these places deteriorate once they are no longer inhabited. i can imagine walking these halls now, exposes the visitor to many hazards(lead paint and asbestos)

Motts - now do be careful. You take remarkable photographs, but that'll be hard to do anymore if, per chance, you end up crushed to death.

I like how Mott's gets a wide variety of shots. Far away, close up, upside down, and inside out. Get a real feel for the place.

I can recall billboards advertising the Pine's as Jerry Lewis's "favorite hotel". How sad...

I grew up in the Orange County area. I was shocked to see that the Salesian School is in ruins, as it was still in operation in 1980 when I left. It is a sad reminder of my mortality...

great

Looking at this pic and the next the freezer looks more like a 4 person then a 3

Isn't the Dymo labeller still cool?
Did I miss something??

heheh... Keeping cool is one thing.I have maybe 50 fans,and some would say that is a lot.
But yes, I guess it could get hot down in the Ozarks. especially if you hold an annual 'show and tell' at your farm where you have a big ole fire roasting a whole pig telling stories of how you acquired a particular fan. Im sure they fail to mention the fan that everyone is ooowing and aahhing over that is worth about $15,000 was acquired from a local picker for $300 who didn't know what it was worth. But I'm sure occasionally he taps his offshore bank accounts to pay retail for a fan from another collector that he can't steal.
But it's all in good fun I'm sure.. provided no two of them have their sights heavily set on a fan. As the great movie line was... "As long as theres no find, the noble brotherhood will last. But when the gold roles in, thats when the trouble starts." well, it went something like that.

Trust me, some of these guys get goose pimply when they buy that special fan. Then they have debates that last weeks over when someone finds a fan blade and doesn't know which exact fan it fits. Others get more excited than they did on their honeymoon when they find a fan that ran off of DC current instead of the more common AC version.

Though as silly as it sounds, it's probably no more strange than when they see people who like sites like this look in awe at some of the photos which to them aren't that exciting. But then again, I don't think many of the photographers are paying five figures for any of these photos. Nor are they throwing BBQ parties to show them off.

ok ...no place is going to clean mattresses in the kitchen if this is part of the kitchen..i played with the photo in paintshop and its on the inside of an outside brick wall next to a set of windows. it maybe vented to the outside and thats why it is on that wall.