>>... btw DW... wouldn't it be interesting if you were reincarnated into a racoons body after u die?? *throws head back and emits an evil laugh*<<

I'd assume that the odds of reincarnating as anything are .... zero.

So, I'll take the odds on worrying about that happening.

Follow-up for all of the folks in the "humans are the bad animals" camp. I guess you guys either live in the burbs or the city, or don't really get outside much.

Read up a little on raccoons. They're not dogs or cats....and cut it on the latent "civilized man's guilt" thing (where your basic needs have been met, and you choose to find things to feel bad about because you don't have to struggle for your existence), there are bigger problems in the world.

He'd be better as a coat. There's no shortage of them. They make OK pets if you have them from birth, but you don't want them mixing with the wild ones if you keep one as a pet, and even as pets, they bite. When the wild ones bite, you have big trouble.

See if your feelings are the same if you have them fighting with your dogs or unwanted around kids (though most of you probably aren't mature enough that you have kids).

Great picture! Eerie yet beautiful.

This is a beautiful picture, I love it!

Wonderful Photo!

Even if you got me into this room you would have never got me to go through that dark walkway into the next space. Creepy!

And yet here you still are...Amazing!
This is a really good picture Motts.

Wonderfully creepy picture!

Great Picture!

I agree Mourner, like I said before I really wish they had made it into a museum. It really sucks they had to knock down such a beautiful old building.

The house I grew up in in Olney had radiators like this but the covers were different, thankfully since these are just creepy. Nice picture.

Organized Chaos is a wonderful way to describe this picture!

I was upset to learn that they demolished Byberry I had hoped for a long time that they would make it into a museum. It would have been the only way I would have been brave enough to go there. I am a chicken and have heard to many stories.

This picture gives me the creeps worse then any of the others.

I think it's definitely a heat sink, but the problem with the sound-room looking design is that you can't run a fan over the fins - they block each other out by being perpendicular.

A little late on the uptake here, but don't knock kevin because he wants to know where the place is. If you go to the webpage that matches his address, it looks like he actually just wants to make use of something that's going to waste. He either works for or owns an automated laundry machine business.

Probably - in most stacks, you can either get in from the bottom, or go to the top and go down a ladder inside. There's gotta be a way for service people to get in there if they need to do maintenance.

Wow...I made the comment kind of sarcastically in another section that i'd worry about coons more than people. They're disgusting animals - crap everywhere, and dangerous to be around. They look fuzzy and interesting, but their fur is better off on a coat than alive and in a room with you.

The lines on these Kirkbride buildings are just stunning. I didn't even know we had one out here (Dixmont) until I saw in the paper that they were blowing out rock and accidentally closed the highway by blowing up the hillside where Dixmont was with "too much explosive" - right out on the highway - closed for a day :-)

I wish I would've known about this stuff earlier.

Give me a surefire light and a .45 auto, and I'll go through there no problem. I'd go without the .45, even. I'd be more worried about a rat or a raccoon in there than I would anything else - that's what the .45 would be for.

Those are some really nice doors. I would LOVE to have them somewhere on my property - even if they were just on a detached garage or something. I'll bet they have a nice heft to them when you swing them.

Yeah ........... it's like rain ran down them for years and stained them. Just like every other building - including the brick-work and roof on my house.

Lynne - that was a nice story - and I'm not surprised that your compadres do the same thing. My mother was a tough teacher (she tought SED kids (socially and emotionally disturbed)), and she was always doing the same thing - raiding dollar stores to find things she thought her kids would like. When the kids would do things well, they would get "room bucks", and they could spend those "room bucks" on anything in her classroom that wasn't school owned.

She's retired now, and I'm afraid that a lot of the teachers that have followed her are just the tough part without the heart. She made a lot of difference in a lot of kids' lives - who were on the edge of going to special ed or youth homes because of their behavior.

Damn was she ever hard on me, though.

I would've guessed that it's a baler, but since there was a stamping operation, must be a stamping machine? Was there a die in the bottom of it for something that was getting stamped?

Wow. When I first saw the picture, I thought it was a walker with a toilet on it - like for someone who walks so slow they can't make it to the bathroom.

Or .. like intense rehab. "No time to take a break for a piss, man,... i'm putting it right in the walker!"

The weird thing about that machine is that it has the same pattern on the outside as a sound-proof room has on the inside. Odd.