Weird Photos from the Crescent Hotel

We had a very happenin' Day of the Dead. We took the trolley downtown today with friends, and wound up at the Crescent, where the spooks did not disappoint us. Maybe tricks of the light, or... something.
The seven of us went Trick or Treating Halloween night and I got pictures and the camera was fine, until I got home, and it won't really turn on.. it says "Lens Error" and the lens will not open. It randomly makes a whirring sound. So today I took my other, better camera. When I mentioned my malfunctioning camera, I was told that Jeff's camera is also broken and was doing the same exact thing as mine!!!!! Lens Error!!!! What's up with that?
Anyway.. enjoy the pictures. I am almost embarrassed to send people to my blog now, since Blogger rearranged my stuff and all. Please be sure and click on each photo for the full effect, but I apologize about you having to click on the back arrow every time.

Old advertisements on the side of a building. WAIT. What is that in the window? An evil face comprised of lots of orbs?

                Good Gawd.

Basin Park sights...

 And then we went up to the Crescent Hotel. First thing, underneath the porte cochere

we have orb activity that really shouldn't be there. It was shadowed and not bright and glarey out. They are obvious orbs, and you know that I am an orb sceptic, and try to debunk any orbs I get, but these... I also have taken many pictures of this before. No orbs those times. Moving on inside, Pat is on the stair landing, and he says "If there are spirits here, show yourself in the photo" and I snapped one as he was saying this.

Purple seems to be the theme today. Okay, so then  I took THIS:

AND THIS:

What on earth??? HOW? Nothing around me is white. I can only blame this on spooks.

Nice shot of Scott in a hallway. No 'photo-bombers' here.
Now, in this next blurry shot of the gang, there are several photo-bombers!

A nice view from the balcony

Now, here is Pat, again saying "If there are any spirits present, please show yourselves" and I can't say the weirdness in this one isn't caused by the backlit window, but I can't tell if there is something funny about the shadow on the left wall or not.

I'll be comparing my pictures with the ones Gie took at the same time. Beautiful view looking down the stairwell...

An incredibly bright orb and other orbs ^

I see a figure blurring out the left of the fountain. And one on top of the Crescent moon.

What what?

BEST PHOTO-BOMB OF THE DAY!!!

I didn't see this jack-o-lantern on a post, OR the person behind it, so when I uploaded the pictures, I was surprised! How perfect is the timing!!!

At the end of this visit, my camera was broken. It says Lens Error and nothing I can do will fox it. Jeff Graf had the exact same issue with his camera. At the same time. "Lens Error". He did not believe it had anything to do with the hotel. Somehow he remained a skeptic.

I have no idea what has happened to Blogger during my absence, but it is totally not like I left it. Where are my GOLDFISH??? How can it be so un-friendly to this user? As a matter of fact, I don't know what I finally hit to get here where I could do a new entry at all! Came here to make an entry but I got sidetracked ranting instead. I don't like this at all. :(

1893 Harper's Bazar magazines

Ever since I was around 8 or 9 years old, I have been fascinated with my mother's old Harper's Bazar magazines. When my father owned a blood plasma research business in Baton Rouge, convicts at Angola State Pen were plasma donors. Some of them made him things, like this tooled leather cover Dad had made especially for the Harper's Bazars.     When mom passed away I inherited them.
Remember, if you click on the photo it becomes full-size. Click again makes it larger.

There are 2 1895 magazines. Inside is a world of ads, stories and fashions of the time.

                                      It's all about the latest Paris fashions.

                                   Lots of ads...

                 There may be repeats. Please overlook. Or look again, they're worthy!

                                     The magazines are full of frame-able art.

                           And lots of racism, caricatures and down-home bizarre-ness.

                                      Stories, poetry,  articles, and more ads...

                                            Embroidery patterns!

And finally, I cannot believe aluminum in baking soda was a known issue WAY BACK THEN, and STILL, we have to buy smart.