It finally happened. We were driving by the intersection of Westfall Road and East Henrietta and we WEREN’T in a hurry to get somewhere. So pulled over to look at these beautiful old buildings that have been all but swallowed up by nature. There are about ten buildings all in the same state of rot. I took a few photos and then spotted another couple taking shots. I asked my father what these buildings were and he said this one, Number 5, was a County run run TB ward and he remembered visiting a friend here who was suffering from TB.
Number 5 is the biggest of the buildings in the complex and the ivy has not engulfed it like it has the others. The Visual Studies Building in yesterday’s post recently had its ivy removed. Ivy sucks the moisture out of the mortar joints and it eventually found its way inside the the VSW building. This is an ongoing problem here. I remember Dave Mahoney in the late sixties up on a later removing ivy from this same building. I used to meet him for breaks and we’d walk up to the corner store for cheese crackers and a coke.
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Nice segue. This is the way novelists do it, when they want to tell us about their long term love of cheese crackers. Wet the appetite with a little persistent ivy.
was that when he worked at freedens
I personally would love the sight of Ivy crawling up a wall.