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ever seen a buffalo up close?
they are huge, the rifle shot would not keep it from crushing them, in it's last moments. We have alot of people killed in custer state park. Some people try to pet the things like they are tame and in a zoo or something.

Looks like someone was an Opeth fan excellent Swedish Death Metal Band.

been there, saying good by to everything.
shows what is really important to you.

scary, I can see gas comeing out.. of something like that.

beyond here there be monsters.
comes to mind.

there is a place right outside of atlantic city called story book land that was opened about the same time as this was and they are still open

your site is the best, I wish that we had stuff like this here in south dakota.
awsome.

So... it was for people storage? I'm not sure what you mean by "held hostage". Do you just mean held against their will? The same could be said of most doors inside an asylum or a jail. Usually a hostage is someone who is being held against their will to be traded for something else (money, a way out of a situation, etc). What exactly were you trying to say? (I'm not trying to be a smart ass, it just sounds that way...)

no,that door was not used for storege it was used for people who was held hostege

I think she was trying to say that instead of complaining about how they were, do something about how they are. I didn't read that she was attacking ghost photographers (of which I include myself) specifically...

/Start-Rant
I, however, will. As someone who has been photographing ghosts since the late 90s, the sudden interest in it really pisses me off. Now that there are TV shows with people who, by the way, seem to go out of their way to break every rule for ghost photography, every idiot with a camera is seeing orbs. I looked at one picture someone took, then promptly smacked them for claiming that their cigarette smoke was a ghost. I'm so sick of reading the "OMG, it's a gohst orb!" posts on here. Did anyone stop to think that it might just be dust? These are old buildings... Motts isn't trying to photograph dust, so he doesn't have to check conditions like we do. What was the pollen count? What was the weather like? Knowing your surroundings is so important, and in photos like Motts' you can't know what he captured unless you were there and know there wasn't anything else.

To those who are attempting to photograph ghosts and are doing it right, I salute you and say thank you. To everyone else: you're making us look bad. Get another hobby.

/End-Rant

The contrast of the written word between the new and old is quite dramatic. Older written books (on any subject) are much more text heavy than the modern ones that rely mostly on pictures to get their point across. Where is the happy medium? Volumes written in the 50's and 60's seems to be the best cross-section of text and photos.

I can't believe it's going to be gone...
Way to destroy history...
:(

P.S. I am betting that this particular book is pretty easy to find. I am sure we still have a copy or two where I currently work and I have seen copies of these at all the different facilities I have worked at.

Ooooh! Me too! I have several shelves of old medical books I have collected that I keep at work and boxes and boxes and boxes of vintage books at home that aren't quite so "scientific" but are vastly superior to most books written today. Well, except for the fact that the older books tend to be incredibly moralistic. However, the writing style and the vocabulary are both incredible. At work recently in the old library I found a first edition Gray's Anatomy. Yes, you may well stare, as I believe there were only two thousand copies of the first edition printed. [Beams happily, wishes she owned it personally]

I just noticed the arches in the ceiling, too. Lovely architecturally, though it wouldn't surprise me if at some point they were covered by "sound-reducing" tile.