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Looks ready to collapse in on itself.

New pictures, Yum! I mean, good. Motts, can you elaborate as to what's on the ground in front of the fence?

Not that I condone walmart tearing down historic sites, or anything....but....Could you imagine a walmart opening in an old abandoned asylum? You'd have to walk up or down to all the departments....What would they use all the patient rooms for? If they have all this money, they should just build somewhere else, and leave the historic sites alone....

Motts...you are a blessing to the Preservation world in a weird round-a-bout way...but the documentation you have made of these places are amazing along with being artistic....That's 2.

This shot is cool because the stars give the feeling that the world is moving on by while the hospital has been left behind.

Wal-mart is the nemisis of Historic Preservation (along with developers). Once a Wal-mart enters a community they slowly push out the Mom n' Pop stores along with other smaller chains by offering lower prices that smaller companies can't compete with. It usually starts with a normal sized Wal-Mart store. Once the majority of competition is gone, they can actually raise prices slowly given the fact you can't get items cheaper anywhere else. Abandoned Walmarts are actually becoming a major problem in planning blight now. Once a Wal-mart has generated enough business they can then afford to build a bigger, better "Super Wal-mart". However, instead of simply demolishng or expanding the old building, it is left abandoned. The new building is built usually within a couple miles of the old one. The Wal-mart corporation makes enough in profits so they don't have to sell the abandoned property or do anything with it. Walmart also refuses to reuse historic buildings...even if the building is in perfect condition...Why? because the corporate officers claim people won't recognize a Wal-mart if it is not the grey block building with the red and blue signs. Well guess what McDonalds and Burger King do it...why can't they? And considering they can afford to pay for the demolishment of these historic sites...the local government doesn't care.

The alleged statistics in 2004 were as follows:
Everyday there are 3 new Wal-marts built and or opening.
There are 5 Walmarts abandoned every month (with the reminder they are rebuilding elsewhere)
Every month 25-30 historic sites are lost to make room for new Walmarts.

Those my friends are the sad true facts...please don't support Wal-marts

I see orbs/ghosts, and this was obviously a shock therepy room where they would burn cat hair before bring pacients in, just to make it that much more horrible. The cats where kept in drawers and never fed and often died in the cabnets. Yes that is a soap dispensor not a light fixture...

Now that we have it out of our systems, we can move on to making useful posts =)

Motts also posted an explantion of "why green". It involved a complex set of chemical reactions that made the paint easy to clean and resliiant stain and scrubbing.

Gods I Want it *LOL*

I can't tell because I am not there, but did that brick crumble because of vandals or because of rot? If its by the hands of vandals then this place could be left standing for a few more years, provided the vandals don't have at it...

Thanks, Ack. I should know that as I can barely reach the floor when I sit in a chair (yes, that would be a lonely chair). :)

Ok! Enough with the "I see ghosts" posts. Motts is obviously using long exposure times and using his flashlight to show you as much as the hallway as he can. The long exposure time allows him to more or less paint the place in light alittle at a time while the camera takes a really long snap shot of the hall way. The reason the rest of the hall is not blurry is because it is not moving... Because he is unable to light the entire place all at once he uses this tenique MANY times in dark places. Get used to it.... and stop looking for ghosts.

Keep in it real in the berry and Hav. Hope to hang with the original gd crew again soon. Ripper, Steve, Poncy, GD -JJ

It will be alive again...with Wal-Mart lovers

Ack, did you not read what Lynne stated above? Also, I have noticed the lack of murals. Aren't there always murals in the play rooms? Maybe this is just a storage area.....?? (Albeit a very spooky storage area.....)