Using this video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnT9QzmMAe4 . You can use the , and . keys to go back or advance frame by frame on youtube videos.
At 2:13 Windows are set high. I'm 6'2" and would just barely be able to see out of the bottom of the windows. The "table" in the middle of the room is a tree cut vertically instead of across the grain. The edges of the table are bark. Still at 2:13 but advanced a few frames it can be seen that the platform above the ground floor is on wheels on a track. Notice the music conductor like podium with a light, facing the room from the platform. The electric cords are suspended but slack so that the platform can move without pulling them out.
2:14 The stairs would be hard if not impossible for a child to climb. The carpet is over a rough surface just to the side of the stairs. The paint in the corner of the stairs is a little bit washed off. Notice one wheel of the upper platform. If rolled all the way to the wall it would block getting on to the platform from the stairs.
2:14 a few more frames and you can see that the upper platform is designed so that you can get on it with the stairs but then the platform has to be moved in order to access that upper room. The upper room is isolated in that way.
2:15 The platform is wheeled all the way to the far wall, inaccesable to children.
2:16 Wooden door on wheels. A sink in the room with opaque windows. The wood shelf at the right of the room looks similar to a diaper changing station. No door knobs on that heavy door, may be hard for a child to push open or closed.
2:26 the paint in the upper part of the "loft" looks fresh not worn off like by the stairs.
Please add your observations and speculations. I'm thinking this is a "Museum" for collectors of children to come and view the children and then perhaps buy them and take them away. There are no blood stains on the carpet or wood table although it is strange that the area by the stairs would have paint washed off and the lumpiness under the carpet suggests a tunnel. The main thing I'd like to hear theories on is why would you have an upper room that is inaccesable except if the platform is moved from the stairs to the room entrance.
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starseedlover ago
I found the front door entrance on Google street view
It's the right side entrance of the Pegasus museum, the windows match.
The 2nd floor doorway, which is only accessible via the rolling loft, is visible in this shot: https://i.sli.mg/7rO305.jpg (upper right)
But it's been photoshopped out when viewed for the other angle: https://i.sli.mg/XBj87s.jpg It should be visible right next to the man in the plaid shirt. If you zoom in and look between his legs, it might appear to be remnants of the original door that were not properly photoshopped out.
The room behind the sliding door in this image https://i.sli.mg/trEi9d.jpg looks to be the same one with the garage door seen on Google maps.
Edit: formatting and comments about the upper doorway being photoshopped out
AnUnconcernedCitizen ago
That is definitely, 100% clonebrushed. Note the conspicuous yellow spot that's different from the surrounding area, as well as the repeating brick textures.
starseedlover ago
Also check out this photo from 2013. It's the same tree trunk table! Shot overhead from the mysterious 2nd floor doorway. This photo was from when the building was used as a DIY music venue called Paper Sun. You can see the same "coat hanger stain" on the floor between her chair and her coffee. Same floor. Same desk. Same room. Same building.
joeysaperv ago
Nice catch on the photoshop remnants.
It appears that the upper platform splits into two halves. In one image the platform is the same width as the the sliding lower door. In the image with 2 men sitting on it a seam is visible between the two halves. When separated there would be no rails.
Access to stair side is obvious, but access to the oher side is tricky. Looking at the brick side with the upper door where the door was shopped out. Is the doorside desk a swinging gate?
starseedlover ago
Yeah I noticed the two halves too. I don't think the doorside desk is a swinging gate. It just appears to be on rollers that moves on one axis only. And is accessibly only by climbing the stairs and going across both platforms together. How does one move them? Not sure. Also, not sure it's really relevant, but it is interesting.
Fateswebb ago
There are handles on the walls that the pull on while on the platform I believe.
joeysaperv ago
Yeah, just thinking aloud. Why would someone want a 2nd story platform section that can be inaccessible and with no rails? Makes no sense unless the platform was enlarged between pics by just adding another section and joining them.
The platforms have power lines that probably connect to electric motors. Moving by hand is impractical, especially if alone.
edit: looking at pics from another post I don't see motors underneath.
starseedlover ago
That's an interesting question, what's the design intent for making two sliding platforms anyway? According to Joe Wills website:
Are they separate so the people working can have their "own space" if they desired? What if the guy on the stairs-side, pushed the other dudes platform away. How would he get down. Haha... I can't believe I'm imagining scenarios like this now lol.
joeysaperv ago
It only makes sense if you want to control traffic flow. Let's say that the 2nd story door is not photoshopped out but has a false front. Both platforms over by the stairs, it seems like one unit and you can't see a hidden entrance into room accessible across the wall. Or, if someone comes out of that door and the platforms are not positioned to exit, there is no access to the stairs. If platforms are rolled over the stairs, you can completely block off access from up the stairs. One platform over the stairs, another over by the hidden door to act as observatory platform.
Again, just thinking aloud. These sections can be configured in ways to provide security and controll traffic through the area.
Htaed ago
The lower levels have steel bars for windows. It's definitely designed to keep something inside and to keep curious cats out.
joeysaperv ago
note that bars on lower windows in high crime areas are not that unusual
Htaed ago
Yeah, but those bars are too heavy duty. Prisons don't have those big a bar on their windows. Matter fact, Prisons use screens--heavy duty screens.