There nearest sort of place to this I've stayed at was in the Highlands Of Scotland.

I went on a coach tour & were the only couple under 50, but we didn't really mind.

One highligh was a train journey from Fort William to the small fishing port of Maliag.
When we got there we went into a cafe & were surprised to notice at the next table were 2 women chatting loudly in New York accents. We didn't speak to them but they might have come to a place like this at one time in the past.

I first really heard of the Catskills resorts after seeing something on Joan Rivers.

The Simpsons did give them a brief mention but I didn't get the irony.

It looks like a penguin enclosure at a zoo.

This wouldn't look out of place in one of the 1970s scenes in Dreamgirls or Forrest Gump.

I wondered if an Urbexer leaves a lone chair at a random point as a calling card.

Has anyone tried dialing 914 434 600?

It just needs a 1970s hexagonal patterned carpet to be from The Shining.

That film always reminds me of the Imperial Hotel in Llandudno, which is one of the few big old hotels I've stayed at.

My Dad worked for IBM UK for years & in the 1980s they used to invite their employees & families to a weekend break.

Normally this was late in the year when most seaside hotels are empy.

As the main event was adults only many of the children would be a bit short of things to do, so me & by brother would amuse ourselves by exporing the corridors. We always worried that we would get in trouble, but I can't remember doing so,

If I next have a weekend break I'll try & go back there, it's been refurbished recently according to it's website, hopefully not too much.

Lasterdiscs contain analogue rather than digital images, though the soundtracks on later ones were often digitial.

One problem Laserdiscs sometimes had was the plasic coating would absorb water in certain conditions & affect the aluminium underneath, casing something known as laser rot making the disc unplayable.

I once helped a friend & his mum clear out a store cupboard at a leisure centre where she worked.

One item we took out was a stretcher like this. We were told to be careful because it was very heavy.

So much that with someone on the barers might have to be stetchered off if they didn't lift properly!

You mean the Mersey Martine Museum at the Albert Dock?

I've been there a few times & found it very interesting.

The section on emigration compliments the one at Ellis Island very well.

There's also a few ships dry docked, along with lots of large anchors & other ships equipment.

The Queen Elizabeth sank after catching fire in Hong Kong Harbour in the early 1970s.

The converted & occupied warehouse next to where I work has a sign mentioning that all the lead flashing had been removed.

I guess this is to warn anyone thinking of stripping it.

The end wall style is known as a Dutch Bell gable.

That's the second set of narrow double doors there on the right hand wall, I guess it's for some fire equipment.

A Mush was once a sland term for a taxi driver who owned his own cab rather than drive for a company.

Plenty of latched doors have a handle on
each side.

The wiring is in a fairy thick steel tube, so it would take a lot of effort to get the wires out of it.

I was wondering if this was a bell tower with no bell.

I can see one room was air conditioned/

Did someone mention that often power & gas are left on to stop copper thieves from stripping out the wiring and pipes.

A pair of recessed cupboards in show. These seem to be a common feature in some places. Did they need a lot of junction boxes or are these for storage.

Did they use oil for heating as well?

It's interesting that they piped the steam all around for electricity rather than channel it into one big turbine & turn it into electrical power that could be sent through wires?

Was the steam just used for heating? before anything electrical was used here?

A good find, I see it's got a couple of fans!

There's a frame of a table there in the shadows. The top is either missing or it just held a tray that could be carried away.