Mr. Motts - once again, you have outdone yourself. Well done, and thank you - not only for the pleasure I get from looking at these incredible shots, but also for preserving these bits of history.
I donno why, but the first thing that cam into my mind was the words of "Suite Madame Blue" from Styx:
Time after time
I sit and I wait for your call
I know I'm a fool
But what can I say
Whatever the price I'll pay
For you Madame Blue
Once long ago
A word from your lips and the world turned around
But somehow you've changed
You're so far away
I long for the past and dream of the day
With you Madame Blue
Sweet Madame Blue
Gaze in your looking glass
You're not a child anymore
Sweet Madame Blue
The future is all but past
Dressed in your jewels
You made your own rules
You conquered the world and more
... Heaven's door
Whats with the slots under the doors?
They fed them like animals or something sliding a tray under the door?
What if they don't give it back, you still have to go in to get it...
are all the corners/edges on the walls in front of doorways made rounded so that people dont get hurt by walking into them?
I aways wondered about that....
I think the saddest thing about the passing of these places is that we don't build anything that has a soul anymore. Everything now is hideously sterile and square - the old craftsmanship is gone, and now even the memorial to the great craftsmen are gone as well.
everytime I see plants like this it is like nature is reclaiming the spot that the building resides on. Kind of as though the "Outside" is devouring the structure.
Imagine these long hallways when the hospital was in use, with all the patients locked tightly in thier rooms crying our through the mesh windows.
....totally creepy....