183 Comments Posted by Caro

dark room for photos, or a dark room for patients?... *shiver*

the fact that the paint on the door used to clearly say "keep door closed" and then they put a sign over it, makes me think that the door looked like that while the place was still in use... horrible

they look like city hall/court house bathrooms crica 1930.... especially the tile base of the wall...

the metal grate on the floor looks like some sort of radiator cover, i think this place is old enough to have those old visible radiators

i like the simplicity of the handle... it has no latch, so the only possible way to keep the door closed is to completely lock it... it doesn't look like it can be locked from the outside, which is strange because one would think that the staff would want to keep renegade patients out of their bathroom (or even simply keep the door closed), and it must be a staff restroom because i doubt that patients would ever have any control over any type of a lock.

was the glass frosted or is it really dirty?

amazing shot, as usual

yeah, they're in really good condition. they look like the beds in pediatric wards of the 80's

well put pegasus64, i agree

there used to be a similarly-designed brass bed at my grandfather's house. even though the bed is bolted to the floor, the springs/chains holding up the matress are ridiculously easy to remove... could be used for suicide or for attack

it must have been a pain to change that lightbulb... but maybe they never changed it... if i was perpetually stuck in that room, i think i'd want it to be dark, but that's just me

oh i think it was actually a mental hospital/sanatorium, i believe... but i'm not sure

was the island city eldokid mentioned called Poveglia? I saw a documentary on Poveglia, it was originally used to exile victims of the second major outbreak of bubonic plague in the 1500's (i think) and then a mental hospital was built there, then abandoned. It is actually off limits to citizens now, many think it is cursed and/or haunted.... it is near venice, by the way

like i mentioned earlier, reminiscent of the isolation rooms in the gaebler article

wow, just wow.... amazing shot
it would suck to see nothing but that view, all day, every day