Kitchen

kinda reminds oneself of The Shining......creepy

now that was a great movie

Scary

Now, for some reason, this shot takes me backt to "Session 9". I don't know why, but I would expect a dark, menacing shadow to come lurking out from behind the counter.
Duhnuh. Duhnuh. *jaws music*

I love "Session 9"...... Probably one of my top 10 favorites

"The Shining"

My fave horror movie. The Kubrich version, not the gay made-for-tv King version.

That's KUBRICK, my bad.

It just makes me want to hit someone with a meat cleaver

Lola, I'd tell you to go to Benedict Street Jail to get a cleaver, but it appears that someone beat you to it. :-)

looks exactly like the kitchen of the restaurant I worked in through college, a dinosaur of a place. Sadly now it is a Walgreen's.

Definitely reminds me of The Shining too. Not seen that film in years, must buy it!

............The Shining!!!

Heeeere's Johnny!

Oops, I didn't know you already said that.

Don't know if it was someone's dream of revenge or if it actually happened - when I worked here in the early '80's a story was told of a waiter/busboy that had been fired - came back on the Saturday night of a busy weekend (possibly Rosh Hashanah), wearing a suit, briefcase in hand, and a toy law enforcement badge - walked into the kitchen and yelled "IMMIGRATION". (Many of these jobs were filled by illegals from central and south America.) Kitchen staff, waiters, and busboys along with many of the maids fled and didn't come back for over a week. All the other staff is said to have pitched in and worked these positions as well as their own jobs.

Ah, yes, I too recall those days. But, the worst thing will be when someone finds all of the bodies of the people that had to be disposed of once the place was shut down and all of the illegals were disposed of to hide the years of slave labor that was forced upon them.

Crap, this stuff gets better and better all of the time.

I have to go with the SESSION 9 vibe over THE SHINING 'cause everything is so well lit in Kubrick's film. Still creepy as hell & a definite classic, but well lit.
As for the TV redux, it has it's upside. But, I do prefer thelocation & atmosphere of the '80 film to the TV version's Stanley Hotel which was actually the real location of King's novel. Art tops reality in this case.

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.

i have tremendously fallen in love with this website. your photos are insaney beautiful...im in awe

There are many abandoned buildings around Xi'an, Shaanxi that we used to hold live-fire exercises and hostage rescue situations, I came upon this picture again and it reminded me of a building we used not too long ago. Our unit and two PLA Counter Terrorism Special Forces fire teams entered in an exercise to flush out imaginary snipers. These exercises are held in preparation for the Beijing Olympics 2008.
We ran from room to room with QBZ-95 bullpup rifles and fired at popup targets that raised into the air. It was sheer adrenaline, the jaw-cracking adrenaline of combat, live ammunition was used so it was just like World War II Anti-Japanese guerilla fighting in the mountains.
One of the rooms looked almost just like this, and my unit kicked in the door, in a mock hostage rescue attempt in case of a Munich style standoff that happened in 1972, and for almost a hour, we lie right outside, not moving, not uttering a sound. The sheer excitement of a soldier's life.

looks pretty ghoulish. why so much space dedicated to this 'house of wax'.

As Donna stated above...the cry of "IMMIGRATION" actually happened on numerous occassions. The Kitchen steward Alan (Hunt??) was a total A-hole. The only way to get even was to empty out all the illegals from the kitchen, typically minutes before lunch , as nearly 1,000 guests were about to stuff themselves. The benefit of doing this before lunch was so they'd also be screwed short handed for dinner the same night and breakfast the next morning. It was a helluva payback. That was the poorest run kitchen, the Bd. of health could have shut it down at anytime.

It looks like the kitchen from the movie the shinning.

this kitchen was destroyed by fire and rebuilt.
the resort closed before one meal was ever cooked in here.....................

Gee, Rich that is exactly what I was thinking when I saw this picture.

ah yes, THE SHINING. . .

The book was wonderful.
I'd rate it a very rare " 10 "

When the book was newly out , I couldn't wait to get home from work so I could read a chapter; two chapters; three....no! , save some for tomorrow. It was like a movie playing-out in series in my head, And my only fear was that indeed it would one day end.
The perfect book. If King wrote nothing else, he had that.
Seven years later I rented the movie on VHS at the video stor(remember them?) around the corner from me and the girl said;" OOh, scary "
I was so disappointed.
My brother told me I might be,as I could recite thet book verbatim.
The movie was SO different from the book.
I just can't believe it.
It took many years for me to aquire a taste, any taste, for the flick and bring my self around to say that the film has some merit on its' own.
The publisher did use stills from the movie in the version of the book I have, and that helprd ease the pain.

Anyway, as I have said before, I had a tremendous hangover , I ate a box of Triscuits, shouted, threw the box at the door and pounded on the door, but no one let me out..........................

Ah, yes, THE SHINING. . .

i think all of these pictures of the hotel are a little erie. i live about 15 minutes from the hotel and it's said to be haunted now. i wouldn't doubt it. its so creepy looking, an old run down building on the top of a hill.

defiantly the shinning

Nauseous- 'the gay-made-for-TV King version'
STEPHEN KING wrote The Shining......, it wasn't a VERSION!

Were there bodies in the freezer? =D

I can just imagine the sounds one would hear in here at night--I would love investigating a huge, creepy kitchen like this!

:) Now this is interesting to me... I looked at this photo and imagined the steel shining bright and clean, the brick/tile floors swept and mopped until they're shining and the kitchen bustling with white coated chefs, sous-chefs, preps, and wait-staff. In my mind, it's a kitchen waiting to be used, waiting for it's "family" to show up so it can be turned on again, it's not creepy at all - it's just in a holding pattern for now. This is what I think is so wonderful about art - everyone sees something totally different even though they're looking at the same thing!

Thanks Mr. Motts, for these amazing photos. You're living my dream and I'm happy to have the opportunity to enjoy it through your eyes.