315 Comments for Philadelphia Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum

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I love everything about this photo, Motts!
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Another great photo, Motts! Thanks!
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Motts, it is so neat how you can find art/beauty in the ugliest of things with that camera lens of yours! : )
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@emmab from oz. I was thinking the same thing! The structure looks like it's been bombed and shelled in this photo! : ((
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There's my staircase! : )....Love the door! And I have to agree with everyone else about that handrail...It pretty much looks brand new. Strange, indeed!
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It's such a shame that somebody had to go and torch the place! (Grrrr!)
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Well, I think it's safe for me to say that I'm later than anybody posting comments here! : ) Anyway, I'm going to sit back and really enjoy this gallery, Motts, if the rest of the photos are only half as good as this one! (Lol!)
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I get tired of seeing this. I am comforted sort of by the knowledge that all of human history everything we have built ends this way. Sadly it is the nice looking places like this that usually go first.
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My mother and her two sisters lived here from around 1926 to around 1933. I have pictures of them with other foster kids.
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It looks like the place was bombed.
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This is so weird !

My very first thought when I saw this photograph was
" Dark Shadows " from the 1960's television show Dark Shadows
and definitely not the 2012 movie Dark Shadows starring
Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer.

And now for the weird part:

After my very first thought I then scrolled down on the photograph and then I read the title of the photograph:
Shadow

That is freaky !

Motts has done it again ! !

Signed; Joseph, a retired American Soldier.

10:33 p.m. Friday, May 24th 2013

Menifee, California
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I love the duality of this shot. It almost has a reflective feel to it.
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You don't find Zombies in libraries, you know they don't like to read! I on the other hand would have wanted to get inside only to see if any books were being left there to rot. If there were, what a shame.
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these images are like the visual poetry of time past; captured in time.. it makes me sad to thin k that one by one=these amazing old structures will be eith left to fall out of sight or demolished.. thank you for prersenting them in such timeless beauty
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There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
With a crooked fire door!!