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Nah not today, just thought I'd remind you that there are much more hideous machines used in hospitals everyday.

Any idea why that wire is running across like that? It looks like the kind of wire I use for electric fences, but I can't see it being very useful at that height...

Motts, your comment makes this picture even better! The crawlspace of the city...

Very reminiscent of "Session 9"....

No, actually the chapel is a seperate building on the college property. In fact, it's where the over zealous caretaker now lives. That's why he's so "Johnny on the Spot" whenever someone happens by for a little peek at this awesome place.

I'm 23, but my step father who is giong to be 50 soon turned me on to this site. I think the themes presented here (loneliness, abandonment, etc) are things that can be shared across any age range. I'm looking forward to the book, but I can't imagine seeing these pictures without the great viewer commentary (even the crappy "OMG a gohst!" commentary). And yes, that typo was on purpose.

This carousel and an Eli Whitney Ferris wheel were the two oldest rides still operating until the park shutdown in the mid 90s. The wooden animals that made up the ride were actually sold separately several years before the park closed and were replaced with cheapy ones. I believe the collection of wooden creatures sold for more than 1 million. The carousel itself was from apprx 1895. (The Eli Whitney Ferris wheel was apprx 1920).

Someone commented that this carousel was being restored at Oakland beach. This is not so.The oakland beach carousel was a separate item that was gone many decades before the park closed. i.e. Its not the same carousel.

If I were a ghost I'd repaint the walls... Ugh, pink!

Why would this site be any more or less haunted than any other site? Any building that has had people pass through it is haunted by their memory, but it takes a good photographer like Motts to show it to us...

PEB is correct. This is the Beer Garden (one of 2) that was in the shadow of the Corkscrew Roller Coaster (no longer there obviously).

Yumm... People burgers! Can I get mine with cheese and no mustard?

sean:
It would be too easy to pick on your spelling and grammar, so instead I'll go after your message. Do you have proof of how these people were treated? I'm not denying that there were some abuses, but not as many as you would like us to believe, and I have yet to see proof that people in any US institution were experimented on "like mice". While new techniques in treatment were certainly tested, it wasn't out of cruelty, and many people benefitted from finding out what worked and what didn't work when treating mentally ill patients. Again, do you have any proof that people were experimented on outside of treatments? Any proof at all?

...and believe it or not the people grinding comment is not far off the mark. This ride had, to my knowledge, the bloodiest death in the parks history. Each morning ride maintenance went down checked out all the rides. The skyliner's far end is not in view from the control deck shown in the picture. To avoid accidents ride maint mechanics would pull the fuses out from the control at the control deck so that the ride could not be turned on while they checked the equally large wheel at the other end. One morning a ride operator was sent down to start the ride. He threw the power switch and nothing happened (fuses pulled). Most ride operators did not know a whole lot about their ride beyond operation. This was an exception. The operator knew the ride, opened the control panel, inserted the fuses (thought he was saving the maint crew an additional job), and started the ride. It was said that there was a scream you could hear throughout the park (223 acres). The ride mechanic was working on the wheel on the other end and was caught in the spokes and cut in half...

From that point forward the ride mechanics not only pulled the fuses - they took the fuses with them to the other wheel.

Puddleboy,

I'm pretty sure Eagle 106 changed to jazz in late 1995. My friend and I used to listen to that station at work and I clearly remember the announcement of the station change. Weird the things you remember sometimes (like that was important!) I think we went to the Haunted House in '94 though.

So I wonder if the fact that S-10 wasn't abandoned allowed the radio station to hold the Haunted House there.

I know this park. The building pictured was a video arcade.

There have no doubt that its a big size multi-pass surface condenser with 20 nos. of man-holes for tube inspection, but no scaling could be observed through the opened man-hole of this photograph.