217 Comments Posted by Jason

Motts you missed the opportunity on this caption name: "Legs up"

That hexagon tile floor reminds me of the home I grew up in that was built in the early 1970s. Our bathrooms had that same floor albeit smaller sized (white in the hall/common bath, brown in the master bath). It was as ugly as it was hard to keep clean, and as a kid who had bathroom cleaning detail as a chore, it sucked. That was before 8x8" square floor tiles for bathrooms we have nowadays in new home building norm where you have far fewer grout crannies to get dirtied up.

Good point Mike, and most of the nation as far as square footage is still rural and undeveloped. But too often we try and project our latter half 20th century experiences with those who lived prior. This includes many overlooking or not realizing that even into the pre-war 1930s, less than 25% of non-major city households - those in and around small towns and rural areas - had electricity.

That said, one has to remember in this case many of these boys were orphans and abandoned at a very early age, so they never even knew what it was like living with a family at all. Hence the thought about them having a real connection to an animal/pet for the first time ever in their lives.

That's a big room for only having one small apparent ~1' wide shelf. Way too much wasted floor space to be a kitchen pantry. Maybe a library with reading tables in there at one time? If there were no windows to the left or behind the shot, then that rules that out.

It's a little dog. Here are the reason's why: the skull is too long for a cat, the eye socket too small, the canines are those of a dog as and the toe bones are not those of a cat. Also the tail bone(s) is too short to be those of a cat.

Early to mid 90s Mercury Grand Marquis. Car would still be running had someone taken care of it. Seeing waste like this reminds me of how much we throw away and not even think about it which can be useful to someone else.

The one-eyed chair screams 1950s-1960s.

Classic proof that it's not clay fired brick that is the weak link in a structure fighting against Mother Nature, it's the mortar holding them together.

Head for the mountains.

Far Side caption:

Little did Eddie and Rufus know that the safe was empty after dragging it down four flights of stairs and spending two days breaking into it.

Magic gondola.

If that was a real decaying body, the smell would have been noticed for some distance, especially in the summer. It's a smell you will never forget and you REALLY don't want to ever experience. Let alone the sight.

^^Yep. Here's what it looks like in original condition. Might even be the same original color too.

http://topclassiccarsf...-original-miles.html

"Happy Sunday. I don't even know if Buick is still making cars."

@flushed - Buick helped save GM. They have been making top notch cars for years now and are only getting better by catering to the younger crowd in design (hence Buick's this is not your grandfather's Buick ads). It only took Buick/GM 25 years to get the marketing message on what people want when they were buying foreign cars.

Considering these records span 14-17 years past the end of the Civil War, I wonder if any of those "patients" were veterans who were admitted. That was long before PTSD was recognized and differentiated from an actual mental illness.

Sadly, there were many WWI veterans committed in the years after that war who were labeled as mentally unfit to stay in society and received the wrong kind of treatment. While during WWI the term "shell shock" was first known, it wasn't until soldiers were returning from Vietnam when PTSD was recognized. The two are not the same. Shell shock is just one aspect of overall PTSD.