STL girl Funny how in some places the paint is peeling so much, it looks like wallpaper falling off.

Location: Henryton State Hospital  Gallery: The White Elephant

	STL girl The employees' kids who played here would have been the happier ones (hopefully with a good place to go home to!)

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Group 2 and Some Building 93 Exteriors

	STL girl Excuse me, but of all those who come, Motts is by far the least of all evils. Condemn the disrespectful taggers and vandals who actually break things-not photographers who treat each site as the valuable museum (of history and urban decay) that it is.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Dawn of a New Day

	STL girl A person's a "poor soul" already just suffering migraines.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Dawn of a New Day

	STL girl Industrial green is most appropriate in these places.

Location: Continental Rubber Works (Hannover-Limmer)  Gallery: Faces of Industry

	STL girl Rolling on casters nameless implement falls dead, No longer useful.

Location: Continental Rubber Works (Hannover-Limmer)  Gallery: Faces of Industry

	STL girl Well, that's a heckuva thingamabox.

Location: Continental Rubber Works (Hannover-Limmer)  Gallery: Faces of Industry

	STL girl must be similar to a "do not block driveway" sign.

Location: Continental Rubber Works (Hannover-Limmer)  Gallery: Faces of Industry

	STL girl This reminds me...of scenes of amusement park abandonments.

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl "jumped out the window onto a trampoline"?? Must not have been more than 2 floors up.

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl The trees and brush are sneaking up and grabbing everything!

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl Unless there was a conveyor line for speed control, whatever went down that would be moving Very fast at the bottom.

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl Umm, maybe aircraft caution lights, if it was at the top of the building near the roof?

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl 10 square milles...? Likely one of the large freight yards was there before the trees.

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl mmm, Yes, I would think that working shutoff switches are one of those first things paramount to safety...

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl Wow, it likely would only take one sneeze (mini tornado) to make those disappear. I'm almost surprised there wasn't a better labeling system.

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl Judging by looks, it would have tossed coal around and, I imagine, created a lot of dust.

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl I think...steam-punked Pac-Man!!

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl ...yup, back in the day when an injury at work was the way things were, instead of a lawsuit.

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl abstract art interpretation of the day: Industrial Sculpture-horseshoe anvil.

Location: Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker  Gallery: Driven

	STL girl Probably a whole lotta "Rosies" in here installing bolts and rivets.

Location: Armorcast (Birdsboro Steel Foundry and Machine Co)  Gallery: Oh, Hello

	STL girl what's a pie control, Glen?

Location: Acme Coke Plant  Gallery: Altostratus

	STL girl possibly a bit like an oil refinery. Still plenty of those...Granite City near the Mississippi, for instance. (coal and oil industries seem as filthy as anything in the Industrial Revolution to me)

Location: Acme Coke Plant  Gallery: Altostratus

	STL girl throwin' a switch.

Location: Acme Coke Plant  Gallery: Altostratus

	STL girl copper-insulated wire tends to be a scrap salvager magnet.

Location: Acme Coke Plant  Gallery: Altostratus