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love those arches

You can all have Mr Depp, I will be dancing in my boots with Capt. Morgan, tap, tap, tap

Now thats an asylum door!

Ohhhhh a great lonely chair shot!!!

i have been in this room and seen these pictures also. sadly i couldnt get it on my video camera because of the darkness. i dont think these are the ones from the movie. the ones in the movie had artifical blood on them and pictures of the actor from the movie. i believe these are real pictures a patient put up. one picture i remember from this room was a man with a distorted face. his face looked awful. there were many other akward pictures in this room. whoms ever room this was must have been disturbed or sad.

I don't know what it is about this particular photo, but, I cannot stop looking at it. It is as though it is still alive. A lot of the other pictures you cannot see the names, which makes it less personal. I spend and hour googleing the Abram Hewitt and did not find much. I think that is what makes this photo so saddening. It harbors a huge feeling of abandonment.

I concur with PEB. The building in the background is the Shore Dinner Hall. It served Clamcakes in the summer and operated as a flea market in the winters. There are probably still spare roller coaster cars from the Cyclone in the basement.

For those who commented on the it possibly being Windjammer/Palladium I would point out that you would not have been able to see the ocean on the right if you were facing the Windjammer/Palladium (ocean would have been behind you). From this perspective the Cliff House/Park Offices would be behind you. Incidently the Cliff House was reputed to be haunted. Several of the employees hated going into the old club section of the Cliff House which was no longer used as a club but was used as storage and was very poorly lit.

It looks like it is trying to shed a cocoon from itself, and return to its more "natural" form.

It was painted on the ride by one of two park employees of the time. Either Robert Cubellis or Robert Kemychek. The former a native of Warwick the latter from England who actually came over on an exchange program along with the college or gap year students (year off between HS and College in England) in the late 80s early 90s - although he was a few years older. Interesting guy. Was a member of a Heavy Metal band named Metallic Rose and was proficient in Kung Fu.

I'm glad you didn't know how to fix the tungsten lighting when you took these. They take on a totally different aspect, and seem harsh and unreal. These could have been taken in the bleachers on Mars!

all the doors and the hallway remind me of my old middle school, minus the wire mesh.

Mother Nature reclaiming her own...

This place seems to be full of archways. Neeto.

Lovely shot, Motts, are those windows able to be opened?

I agree with Jude, (hello dear). Its probably dust and debris.