473 Comments for Mission Hill Convent

There's the Alpha and Omega again.

Shades of my dear alma mater again. {8'-[ Remember going up to class in the morning; "CREAK-creeeak-CREEK-creeeak" up the staircase, loud as heck because you were still a bit sleepy and everything echoed in the foyer.

@ Sandy - the general idea was for the vent to go to a chimney, but why it points TOWARD the cook rather than straight up I have no idea.

Another beheading, wonder if that had an anti-Christian motivation behind it.

My old school had ancient Apple II models of some sort and all the edutainment games were on giant floppy disks and used as a reward for good behavior or to occupy a bright student who was done with the homework while teacher was still trying to get all the dullards to 'get it'. (can you tell I was in this position sometimes?) We didn't even bother to learn keyboarding as every adult knew that they would be long gone by the time we graduated.

When I was in fourth grade the school finally got some Windows 95/98 computers donated from a business after they upgraded, and somehow the kindergarten class in a separate building got a couple Imac's. Unfortunately it all went to waste when the school shut down a couple years later.

For some reason, I feel dreadful for laughing at the tile and the picture...but the irony of the statue and the computer monitors is just too funny!

So then take the doorframe apart, people! Ugh, what a waste to leave that gorgeous artwork behind! I think I would have definitely broken the UE code, rolled it up, and left it in a tube outside a local Catholic church marked as an anonymous donation.

Imagine if the statue had been backlit just right and your first sight of it looked like a PERSON with no head!

Agree with you |Beth|, that ugly thing is a total waste of paint, time, and surface, a sharp contrast with the art in the other picture.

Show of hands - who would immediately try to straighten it? *raises hand*

Wonder if the painting was to cover graffiti, like the scrawl in this picture that rather ruins the mood.

0.o They simulated the curtain...with wood?! I'm seriously stunned; that takes not only a lot of hard labor to get right but some serious ingenuity in order to think of how it would work in the first place. I also concur that this place should not have been abandoned.

Whoever designed this area was no slouch. The skylight providing 'heavenly light' really sets off one's emotions.

Always nice to see a chapel that isn't trashed. I wonder if the taggers were locals and/or had friends or relatives who used to go here.

And to think I was just wishing for a close-up of this from the previous photo! It's like Motts read my mind!

What's with the lock on it, incidentally?

Goodness, what an assortment. I know more old electronics than anyone else my age and I have no idea what most of that stuff could be. The brass plate on the rightmost side intrigues me - do I see a greek "alpha" on the left side and an "omega" on the right, symbolizing "the beginning and end", and the Chi-Rho in the middle (the cross with a P) for Christ?.
@ Mica - i noticed that as well, very few boards have their own lights in older buildings. Wonder why it was considered so important.