151 Comments for Wurlitzer Building

the girl on the right is actress Jocelyn Lane who starred in TICKLE ME with Elvis Presley

I think it is a moistening machine for packing tape.

It is a glue machine for putting paper on the edge of boxes.

looks like the person who was under the drier was there too long and were dried until there was nothing left of them but jerky and their coffee cup. Either that, or the drier vomited up the detritus all over the chair.

Way back when there were very few of people running around and exploring history and the beauty of decay. I was surprised to hear the building has indeed sold, to someone who wants to open up boutique shops, Good News for sure. Thanks for the artistic eye !

This made my breath uneasy :D
Photo is large, so it loaded bit by bit - and by every of those bits my eyes widened.
Amazing photo, amazing. I would gladly use it as my desktop background one day [if it was available for saving] :D

This is the saddest Christmas Tree ever !

Now Charley Brown does not have to feel so bad anymore.

Sun City, California
Sunday, October - 11 - 2015 - time; 1:25 a.m.
Joseph

Happy Halloween everyone !

Motts; I hope you have some scary photographs for Halloween.

this is a box sealer. you fill the glass bottle with water, set the tape length with the meter and pull the crank, it spits out tape with glue on it for sealing packing boxes :)

I believe the Mystery Machine is a postal paper tape dispenser as the
bottle in the picture holds the water to wet the tape activating the glue
in order for it to stick to the box.

Thanks! I jumped into the Broderick real quick without my camera back when it was abandoned... I remember the climb to get in was kind of dicey and no one I was with wanted to go for it without a rope. Didn't get a chance to make it back there.

Looks like some of this building has been abandoned longer than the rest

Looks like a tape dispenser. If correct, it holds a roll of adhesive backed packing tape. The adhesive side is dragged over a brush which is sitting in water to moisten the adhesive as the tape advances. You advance the tape by pulling the handle.

Cool shoot, thnx! Nothing left of the lobby and theatre? Did you shoot the Broderick Tower? Serious time standing still in that at one point. Renovated now.

That tree is for the zombie Santa. I'd be all over those old newspapers.

Those things were cool. Sturdy wide brown paper tape with that zig-zag filament reinforcement in it. I have a roll somewhere. That appears to be a Better Packages Model 120 gummed tape shooter. The stuff is still in use and amazon sells the machines.