Thanks for the nostalgia, RV. I remember the same things you did and it brought a sigh of how fun times were back then. And now it is as you say a set waiting to be put on the truck and hauled to Paramount Studios.

Was gonna comment on this “Monumental” event yesterday but ended up going to the Spy Museum instead.

And today I gotta lotta spare time on my hands so I figured what the hell?

Let’s see.

It’s taken ’em almost as long to get this Test Center AKA the HI as the Super Power building and I don’t remember how times they’ve renovated and re-renovated and re-re-renovated the Pac Base.

(Guess they had to do something with all the SO members they assigned to the Decks and RPF.

Never mind the Tech/Admin ratio.

In this town I think estates personal outnumber all staff in other divisions combined.)

Anyhoo…

The idiocy of all these “upgrades” is just unbelievable.

When you look at the times when the place was most packed with public was when the AC and the elevators didn’t work right and the BC still looked like a maternity ward.

Heard it was even worse back at Temple Street where the place had the ambiance of an abandoned warehouse. Yet they had twice as many people on the BC back then.

AO was just as bad.

During the winter. The space heaters that Tech Service supplied to all us auditors would blow out the circuit breaker.

A flash light wasn’t just an item on the check list but a necessity back then. But despite auditing by flash light at times the PCs/Pre OTs used to fill up the reception rooms beyond capacity. So much so that tech services had to put couches in the hallways and still there wasn’t enough room for ’em all.

Many of them ended up hanging out in the stairwells which back then were open air.

Now the place looks so…..post apocalyptic.

Every time I drive by it looks like an empty stage set that should be moved to a new home in the back lot of Paramount or Universal.

Really sad.

Apart from the fact he won’t run

Like popping a pimple.

Time to write up his hat.

Yes, and apparently the highest state of existence one can achieve within that organization is …..Ribbon Cutter. Must be true, because that’s what the top dude is all about.

Doesn’t he love the smell of napalm in the morning?

Tell then you’re on medical leave in Geneva.