1,236 Comments for York Street Jail

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Okay, I googled this and all I could find were half-a-dozen eBay listings... it looks as though this was an electric learning aid from the 1970s that quizzed you on maths questions, and would have originally had a red LED display on the front, like a vintage pocket calculator. Before someone lobbed it at a wall that is. One of those auctions stood at about $50!
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Damn that is cool! Reminds me of one of those old eight-track machines that fetch a small fortune now in retro shops. Too bad it's ruined, would probably be worth a bit now...

"Cybernetic Systems" - somehow the hi-tech name doesn't fit with this relic of the analog era - but then this may have been the height of technology when it was new!?!
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This thing seems asout of place in a jail as possible.If I was in some big bleak prison and I saw something like this I think I would get a little sad.I mean this would remind me of amusement parks,holding hands with a lover on a ferris wheel,and all those things that were taken from my life that I might not experience again for many years.
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It does look a little like something from a dollhouse,well dollprison.Elbowgeek is also right I think it looks like something built on a soundstage for a movie.
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There doesn't seem to be much of the water damage that wrecks so many old buildings. I wonder if the roofs are still maintained?
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In the UK half of it seems to end up on eBay...
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Now this one makes me think of cold water...
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Heh heh, yeah I saw that too!
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The penthouse suite lol...
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Tres cool shot! This one speaks volumes.
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Does anyone else feel as if they are looking at this scene in a dollhouse? When I first looked at this shot, I thought it was a miniature.
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How did it get there? Did they really sell cotton candy in prison for 50 cents (marked down from $2.00)? You're right "the face rocks".
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And notice how horribley drawn Calvin is!Then look at that psychotic looking Charlie Brown sitting next to Linus!Some things are just wrong.
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That's so freaky. I'm just amazed it wasn't on a wall in Pennhurst.
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Is it just me noticing the horrible, horrible Humpty-Dumpty? You know, the one in the corner with the face that will be in my future nightmares of the macabre.