Mark When I was growing up in Kingston (just across the river) I used to go into this hotel and was always awestruck by the beauty of the place. When I drive from Kingston into Wilkes-Barre, it always made me smile. No apparently it is time to say good-bye to what was once among the most beautiful buildings I have ever darkened the doorway of. Now instead of the smile when I cross the bridge, I think there will be a tear.

Location: Hotel Sterling  Gallery: River View

	Mark Something very skull-like about this facade...

Location: Renwick Smallpox Hospital  Gallery: Artificial Light

	Mark I don't know if anyone has made this observation, but t's almost as if there is blood flowing from the building... What horrors lie within, we will never know.

Location: Danvers State Hospital  Gallery: Tiptoe

	mark hey daniel ryan,i think i went to camp with you.yes the cops keep a close eye on the place and there are cameras by the tool shed

Location: Salesian School  Gallery: Forgotten Prayers

	mark strange that as i looked over staff that previously worked at pennhurst that some have transfered to another state to a similiar hospital, but yet these goings on were known to staff of neglect etc, people should ask questions especially if american, your country,

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

	mark Dear starduster can you give any info in relation to your time at pennhurst As you said you had good times and memories but did you feel anything untoward was going on while you worked there or did staff ever express any fears for patients etc ,, Did staff speak up, from an interested party from across the seas,,... always watching..

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

Mark In my youth all my friends and I would go up there for a few days...camp where we could...But on another note-we found beds,complete with dressers in some of those old concrete structures...we thought we were being watched on more than a few occasions...back then about thirty years ago there was not too much of a homeless problem in Rockland..we thought they were criminals from nearby NYC...people did LIVE there...

Location: Camp Bluefields (Tweed)  Gallery: The Tunnels

	Mark Amazing one of a kind photo. I am a very curious person who loves exploring places too. In the process I've opened many things I probably shouldn't have but I wouldn't open that thing up for a mint full of money!

Location: Mount Rose Cemetery  Gallery: Rookery

	Mark This looks like a Story & Clark or a Thomas Organ. It's not a Hammond. I know because I was a music major in collage. Hammond had the slide bars. They were know for there ability the change pitch with just a touch.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

	Mark For the past ten years I've worked with gentlemen that have come from that ghastly place, and I thank God that organizations like Refocus, Gateways to Change and West Bay Residentials exist.

Location: The Ladd School  Gallery: Brownfields

	mark I once worked there. About 1970/71.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

	MARK Under that pathwalk is an underground tunnel was actually in it leads to the second building

Location: Pilgrim State Hospital  Gallery: Emptiness

	Mark Awesome picture Mr. Motts. Love it.

Location: Fort de la Chartreuse  Gallery: Quieter This Time

	Mark Prisoners most likely were given a bucket to pee&poop.

Location: Fort de la Chartreuse  Gallery: Quieter This Time

	Mark I wish oregon had places like these.

Location: La Crypte des Fleurs  Gallery: Moisture

	Mark I wonder what the visor was for?????

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: The Other Wing

	Mark I agree with Quinnifer

Location: Manteno State Hospital  Gallery: What Little Remains

	Mark Reminds me of my first time in prison. The place had formerly been an insane asylum. Today it is Eastern Ore. Correctional Inst. located in Pendleton,Ore. Anyway the toilets were just like photo except there were no dividers! It was supposed to be haunted. I had a job washing dishes in kitchen. It was connected with the tunnels that most of the old institutions had. It was a creepy place.

Location: Manteno State Hospital  Gallery: What Little Remains

	Mark If Gennies story is true,the people responsible for her torture should have been imprisoned and tortured in the same way. eye for an eye. Aside from that the pictures are great.

Location: Manteno State Hospital  Gallery: What Little Remains

Mark Wow, I remember this now as I was 12 when I last rode it for the last time in the early 70"s and it looks pretty much the same in this old photo. The riding cart I recollected banged through the doors and it went back outside and then up then through the doors again and it was a cool ride. So did they tear it down and scraped it or did they place it in a auction I wondered? Memories will live forever with good times with family back then.

Location: Rocky Point Amusement Park  Gallery: Chaser

	mark i had mr ryker as a bus driver while i attended haverstraw middle shcool. is he still alive?

Location: Letchworth Village  Gallery: Power Plant

	mark any 1 got pics of the mortary? ne 1 found the padded sell

Location: Whittingham Hospital  Gallery: Shut In

	Mark The bay was so high, and heat loss was so great. Plastic sheets were hung to trap the heat closer to the floor.

Location: Studebaker Stamping Plant  Gallery: Around the Bend

	Mark This is another draw press. It is also called a toggle press. This press was in the pressroom at the south end of the building. This line of presses was called " G Line ". G1A was the number one draw, and the first press on G Line.

Location: Studebaker Stamping Plant  Gallery: Around the Bend

	Mark The hoses were used to spray drawing compound on the sheets of steel before being put into the press. Compressed air was thespraying force.

Location: Studebaker Stamping Plant  Gallery: Around the Bend