1,168 Comments for Salesian School

I was a student here from '75 to '77. It was a Grotto and Quite beautifull

That made me smile. i love it, i wish i had one.

That must have been a beautiful place when it was still running.

Creepy in a way but its so beautiful

In all fairness, the buildings in question in Europe generally have 200+ years of history and near continual use in them rather than, oh, ~100 like this one. Not having what anyone would call a stable aristocracy, the US doesn't have the right environmental pressures to maintain all sorts of old buildings, especially when said old buildings (which are prized) conflict with things like health and safety regulations (also prized). A lot of tenement blocks went down because they were honestly unsafe places to live, history be damned.

I'm not really against your argument, Karch and Jenn, but playing devil's advocate here. As it stands it looks like the people in charge don't have the finances to fix the place up and those that do have no interest. That and I severely doubt that Wal-Mart, no matter how unpopular a scourge and symbol of rampant globalization it may be, will be replacing this building in any way.

It /is/ a skull. He's usually depicted with a cross, lilies, and a skull because:

1) Cross: Duh. Show me a saint who isn't.

2) Lilies: Flowers such as posies and lilies were considered to be prophylactic against the plague. Doctors in those days would wear masks with huge noses to stuff flowers into to protect them from the plague, and it's where the line "pocket full of posies" comes from. It didn't really work so well.

3) Skull: The plague again, that and he did essentially martyr himself tending to plague victims before succumbing himself.

Hmmm. With those glue patterns on the board, it's quite possible that one chalkboard, or maybe a whiteboard that since has gone missing, was (for whatever reason) glued on top of this one. Why I think this is because back when I was a sophomore in high school (eight years ago) they switched from blackboards to whiteboards and just glued the latter onto the already-present former. We all wrote our names and such on the board before they came to put the new boards in.

Yeah, my parents' house had 1970s wood paneling in the basement and dark grey carpeting that was molding up underneath due to leakage after heavy rain through a foundation fracture. What did they do?

Strip out the carpet down to foundation concrete, paint the floor white, and paint the paneling a yellow color. Now they can just mop up any leakage and the whole basement's just brightened up dramatically.

I agree with you, Karch. This is the difference between America and Europe. They have old buildings because they continue to renovate them. America...Just tear them down and build a stinking Wal-Mart. How pathetic.

Poor Emmett! After doing all of that cleaning, it must be odd to see it so dirty. I love old buildings like this and it's sad to see them deteriorate. I wish there were some way to save them!

Heehee, the vine looks exhausted to me, like it just spent all year working its way to that window, and with a great heave, throws a hand inside and begins the struggle to pull itself in.

That's horrible. How hard was it to get up on the roof of this place anyways?

Not only is it a lonely chair, it's an amputee!!

Isn't lamb of god some heavy metal band?

Terrifying, gives me the chills!