Babs, You are a sucker for anything involving Marie Antoinette, little people, and women in chains. The Eagles had it right, "freedom...well that's just some people talking; your prison is walking through this world all alone."---Piker
Check, check, and check. You did omit my particular fascination with sin and freak shows. Cut and paste the following in your browser for more freaky artsy fartsiness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6vs-l5dkc
Hey dude, great lyrics by the Eagles. I could structure an undergrad curriculum around those.
Speaking of haunted hotels: The Grand in Lake Wales. I get the heebie jeebies just looking at this place in the daytime. Man I don't know if you could pay me enough money to stay there overnight.
I saw this awhile back! It was connected to one of the local news stations doing a story on the hotel. Maybe the restoration will really happen this time. It's been sold a couple of times over the years and the new owner was going to 'restore' it and that never happened. I'm sure the amount of $$$ necessary to bring it up to code, replace, rebuild, etc., was too daunting for some people. The current owner is definitely making changes, though.
Babs, You are a sucker for anything involving Marie Antoinette, little people, and women in chains. The Eagles had it right, "freedom...well that's just some people talking; your prison is walking through this world all alone."---Piker
ReplyDeleteCheck, check, and check. You did omit my particular fascination with sin and freak shows. Cut and paste the following in your browser for more freaky artsy fartsiness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6vs-l5dkc
ReplyDeleteHey dude, great lyrics by the Eagles. I could structure an undergrad curriculum around those.
More Eagles goodness:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ygI3BZxdCY
"Relax, said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!"
Hotel Floridan!
The sight of all those axemen, including Joe Walsh, plying their trade is a thing of true beauty & transcendance.
Not the Hotel Floridan! Egads, that would be a nightmare if you could never leave there. At least not until they finish the refurb. :)
ReplyDeleteIndeed the Floridan!! For all the symbolic implications thereof. Once you've checked in, nearly impossible to check out.
ReplyDeleteTrue. There's no one at the desk. :P
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of haunted hotels: The Grand in Lake Wales. I get the heebie jeebies just looking at this place in the daytime. Man I don't know if you could pay me enough money to stay there overnight.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mikewoodfin/4713309550/
http://youtu.be/EslVXpOM4o4
ReplyDeleteI saw this awhile back! It was connected to one of the local news stations doing a story on the hotel. Maybe the restoration will really happen this time. It's been sold a couple of times over the years and the new owner was going to 'restore' it and that never happened. I'm sure the amount of $$$ necessary to bring it up to code, replace, rebuild, etc., was too daunting for some people. The current owner is definitely making changes, though.
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