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Walk the Line

Raymond

Imagine that is a train coming......

Location: Hewitt State Hospital and Prison  Gallery: Prison and Medical Building

Front Gate Controls

Raymond

This picture should be called "Trinity"

I'll congratulate the first person who understands what I am getting at.

Location: Hewitt State Hospital and Prison  Gallery: Prison and Medical Building

Projector

Raymond

Damon, if you know how to make spare parts for your projector, you can keep it running infinitely. Parts are easy to build, especially for these old devices that require no circuit boards or things like that.

Location: Belchertown State School  Gallery: The Theater

Germination

Raymond

I see the island of Iwo Jima.
To the bottom is the ocean, a span of green island above that, and behind the chair, I can see the airfield, built in 1944 to allow B-29 bombers to make emergency landings and takeoffs.

Location: Mesa State Training School  Gallery: Recovery

Rain

Raymond

While looking at this pic, read HP Lovecraft's "Cthulhu"

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Kitchen

Raymond

Andrew, your post reminds me of Unit 731, the Japanese bioweapons unit that operated in China during the War of 1937-1945. App. 1 million people were used for the most brutal, and hideous of medical experiments there, such as pressure chambers, live dissection, and victims were used as test animals for plague organisms that the Japanese later dropped from warplanes over Chun'king, a city they failed to conquer because of the powerful Communist Army there.
Unit 731 headquarters were Harbin, in beautiful Heilungjjiang Province. In 1945, when the combination of the Chinese Red Army, the Soviet Army, and the North Korean guerillas overwhelmed the Japanese defenders and crushed into Harbin, the surviving members of Unit 731 dynamited most of their facilities, and machine-gunned over 36,000 prisoners still held in it's compounds. Of the 1 million who entered the facility, only 9 survived when they escaped.
The next day, a crack DPRK (North Korean) assault force entered Harbin, spearheaded by a column of T-34 tanks. They were followed by troops of the Democratic People's Anti-Japanese Alliance: Soviet Union and Chinese Communists. The remaining Japanese soldiers who failed to evacuate the city on time were quickly slaughtered, many impaled on the tips of the Communist bayonets. But the doctors and scientists who headed the Unit 731 program fled justice, by plane only a few hours ago.

Location: The Pines Hotel  Gallery: Trip with Drie

Parting Message

Raymond

That stanza eerily resembles something from an Evanescence song. Sad, beautiful, and haunting at the same time.
I am sure most of you enjoy listening to that band.
I think this has something to do with suicide. I am not too sure, but the lyrics pretty much sounds like it.

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

The Stage

Raymond

The same hole that is allowing snow to fall in will bring in dandelion fluffs come spring. Within 5-10 years, I can expect this place to host a variety of weeds and plants.

Location: Cliffside Hospital  Gallery: Secret Things

Paperwork

Raymond

This is just what an undergraduate student's dorm room looks like.

Location: Broadacres Hospital  Gallery: Meet the Neighbors

Garage Door

Raymond

Look at the floor in the foreground, it seemed like a flaming piece of debris had shot in from the burning other side and landed on the floor. If you look even more closely, it looks like the floor is covered with some dry accelerant and is about to ignite rapidly

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Complexity

On the Roof Again

Raymond

This pictures certainly looks medieval.
Does it remind anybody of knights, dragons, trolls, fairies, and elves?

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Overcast

Dormitory

Raymond

It really resembles the new high speed rail system in China that connects Beijing with Shanghai and Harbin. The locomotives and cars are colored in this exact same way. Add some long windows to the pic above, you'll see what the train looks like.
DVD players in each seat, Wi-Fi Internet connection, GPS trip-tracking, just some of the things you'll find on that train!

Location: Saint Michaels State Hospital  Gallery: Cleaned Out

Entrance

Raymond

That is just awesome man!

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Depression

Front

Raymond

Purple Loosetrife growing in the foreground. Introduced by the Europeans, it now grows with terrifying speed at abandoned places and marshland.
You guys should read a book called "Gone Away Lake" by Elizabeth Enright. It might be for young adults, but that book is interesting.

Location: Bennett School for Girls  Gallery: Close Calls

Hey Kiddies

Raymond

Is this the neighbor's front yard? LOL

Location: Bennett School for Girls  Gallery: Close Calls

Waterfall

Raymond

I absolutely love these places where nature is reclaiming long abandoned property. They have an almost spiritual sense to it. They have become the subject of my art in the several years.
FYI- The ferns are just introductory plants.
Every year, as the winds shift, countless airborne seeds are carried to this ceilingless room, the wooden floor, door, and walls pack abundant nutrients, and those seeds, with enough water, will grow with wild abandon, reducing the wood into an even more fertile compost mix for other plants and trees.

Location: Bennett School for Girls  Gallery: Close Calls

Entrance

Raymond

Hey Motts, did you use some sort of filter, or is this a natural color. It looks creepy, haunting, and beautiful at the same time. I was able to create the same effect in some of my drawings.

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Depression

Halo

Raymond

That is one awesome picture, being an artist myself.
I would name this photo "Radioactive"

Location: Buffalo Central Terminal  Gallery: Baggage

Playground

Raymond

I do see the ring of dead grass at the upper right side.
If you look at the building wing towards the left of the photo, see how the exit door is placed at the rear, and the rows of windows, it almost looks like an old bi-level railcar abandoned in a yard.
A CSX facility had ancient Chesapeake & Ohio Railway double-deck passenger coaches in one of their yards, along with locomotives stripped of their engines and transmissions

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

South Wing

Raymond

It almost looks like a war zone. Reminds me of Grozny

Location: Renwick Smallpox Hospital  Gallery: Artificial Light

The Hole

Raymond

It almost looks like a shipwreck.

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

Employee Quarters

Raymond

Puttin' on the ritz LOL
If you're blue and you don't know where to go to why don't you go where fashion sits.........Puttin On Th' Ritz

Location: The Pines Hotel  Gallery: Trip with Drie

Three Doors

Raymond

Album cover for Three Doors Down? LOL

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Uncovering the Past

Drip Door

Raymond

Yeah, I think thats her name, and she was the only civilian killed in the war, but someone once said a lady named Judith Henry and her two sons died during the Battle of Manassas, the first one, when a shell burst in their cabin on a hill. Something like that. Old records are so hard to prove, even with ultra modern forensics!

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

Drip Door

Raymond

Yeah, I haven't been to Gettysburg, but heard plenty of stories about phantom black dogs that were sighted, other weird happenings such as unusually ferocious thunderstorms, probably the reason why her blood is preserved is the building material on the walls, maybe the acids or compounds in the mortar were able to create some sort of "binding action".
This is interesting to investigate though, it almost borders on the paranormal.

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed