gypsy Such texture!!!

Location: Bethlehem Steel Mill  Gallery: Cathedrals of Steel

	gypsy ...that's a LADDER?? Yikes.

Location: Bethlehem Steel Mill  Gallery: Cathedrals of Steel

	gypsy Like a steel layer-cake.

Location: Bethlehem Steel Mill  Gallery: Cathedrals of Steel

	gypsy ...Redevelopment halted due to lack of material caused by the greed that fuels large US companies to outsource... tsk... how, dare I say it, iron-ic... Pardon the pun, but quite true and crushingly sad...

Location: Bethlehem Steel Mill  Gallery: Cathedrals of Steel

	gypsy About 6in for me, OfMice.:)

Location: Rochester State Hospital  Gallery: Drifts of Whiteness

	gypsy Egad.

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	gypsy I'm absolutely transfixed with these old control shots.

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	gypsy Astounding!

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	gypsy A great and necessary point, D.

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	gypsy Another breathtaking shot.

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	gypsy I knew that soap dispenser comment was coming...

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	gypsy Much appreciated, Mitch! :)

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	gypsy God, I live for this stuff.

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	gypsy A mangle was actually the press one would squeeze the material just scrubbed through to get as much water out as possible, via a turn-handle usually on the side of the contraption. It accomplished what the spin cycle does in modern washers. A mangle would usually be attached to the side of an old washing "machine", jutting over the wash basin so that the basin could collect the water. :)

Location: Henryton State Hospital  Gallery: The White Elephant

	gypsy Just gorgeous.

Location: Henryton State Hospital  Gallery: The White Elephant

	gypsy Oh how beautiful........yes, wallpaper please. This is definitely 1 of my all-time favorites.

Location: Henryton State Hospital  Gallery: The White Elephant

	gypsy Lol... freakin' awesome.

Location: Henryton State Hospital  Gallery: The White Elephant

	gypsy Ditto.

Location: Henryton State Hospital  Gallery: The White Elephant

	gypsy Me three, me three.

Location: Philadelphia Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum  Gallery: Long Lost

	gypsy Well said, Willie!!

Location: Philadelphia Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum  Gallery: Long Lost

	gypsy A jewel in the overgrowth.

Location: Philadelphia Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum  Gallery: Long Lost

	gypsy Definitely wallpaper. This is astounding!! So ethereal...

Location: Philadelphia Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum  Gallery: Long Lost

	gypsy There's something eerie just to the idea alone of windows without a point... no room for them to look out of...

Location: Philadelphia Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum  Gallery: Long Lost

	gypsy Glad to hear it, Eldokid. I hope so too. I too see and appreciate the layers here, literally from the top down; Gothic to 50s motel. Awesome.

Location: Philadelphia Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum  Gallery: Long Lost

	gypsy It's long seemed to be a New England "thing" to find graveyards in strange places. My mother found parts of one in her backyard in New Hampshire. Perhaps something to do with the inpenetratable ground; for six to eight months out of a year, the ground up there is frozen solid and makes burial -and construction- difficult.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: November Chills