2,174 Comments for Bennett School for Girls

In September of 1966 I sat in this auditorium, an unwilling freshman at this stupid, shallow, anachronistic debutant school (for girls who weren't very bright, but who were very rich and needed to be somewhere where they could attend "mixers" with all of the ivy league boys schools, so they could get their "ring by spring"-- the common chant at Bennett Jr. College in those days.) As I sat in my first "Assembly" in this very same auditorium, the then President of the college had a slide show of only 2 slides on the screen in this photo. He alternated the 2 single pictures back and forth, and back and forth. They were: 1. a photo of a chimpanzee , and 2. a photo of Timothy Leary. The President of Bennett Jr. College was informing the new students that Leary had rented the property adjacent to the college, and that anyone found on his property would be immediately expelled. That's where I ended up spending most of my 2 years...

Loosestrife on the alien invader list

appropo

Past meets Present


I seem to be..rememberinggg.. ah, - TERMITES!!

Isn't that something the way everything came together like that.

I ate a box of triscuits and threw it at the locked door and yelled but i couldn't get out.

notice the capped-off pipe near the ceiling.

(' ceiling' ; " 'I' before 'E' except after 'C'."

Beautiful pic


I think I see Marshall Applewhite at the end of the hall.

Heaven's Gate

Elevator accidents were common at Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage where my father worked.Part of the problem was you could bribe the inspecters.
I remember one incident in the early sixties when the gate came crashing down on the head of some 73 year old named Gannon.He died a couple of days later.
My uncle Otto,who was the night supervisor there routinly Pulled the large spring-loaded band back to open the gate late one night and the darn thing snapped and hit him in the eye.
Now the elevator had a spring of water in the bottom of the shaft and that would fill with water.Sometimes the cable would slip or break and you'd go for a little ride.In the winter that water would freeze.
When my Dad was nearing retirement and never having missed a day of work in 50 yrs,he and his partner were loading the elevator when it started going up on its' own,with the partner 1/2 on and 1/2 off the car.He was pinned between the fork lift and the top of the door frame.(in those days tow motors didn't have protective cages)He died a few days later,and my father,who tried to save him by scrabbling up into the car to hit the controls,took a few days off.

Oh to take a bath in this room in the spring with that window and all.

Interesting design.

Scary now , routine then.

(p.s.: Beethoven probably wouldn't have let you pass)

Boy did I always want a room like that!

Casa redonda

At night you can hear a little "creak' on these stairs.

Looks like the kind of stairs one would normally(?) photograph a ghost ascending or descending(or just standing there??)

Well, there was a lot of people in this building throughout its' history.I suppose there could be a ghost there, friendly or otherwise.

Turret!!! Thats' the word I was looking for these so many years to describe this type of architecture!!
This one is different in that it goes into a sloping roof and has a little connecting "gable' alongside another gable.

Good view.