3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

Sorry - off and about. Bill wins the prize - they look like the mattress sterilizers we used to use. Don't know if they use them anymore anywhere - we just chuck mattresses when they are the least bit nasty these days, now that the state actually purchases enough extras to sleep a thousand. :-)

LST69, you are really cracking me up, now. 8`-)

Yeah, Motts - good thing you never have to artificially arrange any lighting! ;-)

Actually, Kime, I believe that the majority of Motts' pix have to have the lighting specifically set up by him to get these marvelous shots.

But then I was wrong 57 times today just before breakfast, so it's possible I'm wrong yet again.

I can answer that for you. They are files of people who were undergoing some pretty rough times who would be have been humiliated if they ever thought that anyone would be able to access this paperwork.

I wish I could convey the respect I feel for Motts when he leaves these intimate details out of the public realm. Even though much of this is truly boring in its day to day detail, it still names people by name and at times gets down to the nitty gritty.

Cheers and thanks for protecting these folks, my friend!

[Pssst! Twugster! Don't tell nobody the truth - they are all happier that way. Just my 1 1/2 cents.]

[gigantic adoring eyes wide open in stunned silence - huddles on floor near bottom of soapbox, wipes corner of eye with sleeve - slaps self to see if dreaming]

=8-o

weasel,

I don't think people make these comments intending them to sound as cold as they do. I think after working in the field we tend to take these comments to heart because we have compassion for the people who had to live here when they were at the darkest periods of their lives. We empathize with the people who lived here and it sounds like people think it's funny they had to live in situations that today only an animal would live in. I know people don't mean to sound so harsh, but I know where you are coming from at the same time - it touches a raw nerve in me as well. :-(

There's a lot of mesh at the place I work - in the old sections. I am going to try to blackmail Motts to come down and take some pix of my place at some point and you'll be able to see this stuff everywhere in the old sections (not in the buildings where folks currently live). However, the building I work in still has mesh like this across the windows on the upper floors. I was in working with the Chief of Nursing last night and as I looked out the window I realized that the windows of her office, which was formerly a solarium, all have mesh like this across them. We are just so used to them we forget they are there. The truth is, mesh like this is much prettier than bars and it is S-O-L-I-D, I can assure you. You couldn't ram anything through those babies.

I have to run to an appointment, but tonight I'll post a link to some historical pix of this place - old postcards and some old pix I picked up somewhere another along the way.

I need that fireplace.

I really do.

Looks like a mausoleum, but I mean that as a compliment.

Lovely - looks like a church.

PB Shasta, you and I know know what a REAL Fisher-Price toy looks like. This is one of them there new-fangled ones. :-)

Jebus, Motts, I take a day off for major crises at work and you sneak a new gallery in on me. I am shamed on you! >:-(

But I am going to forgive you and go look at these right now. :-)