3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

What a great contrast it makes with the white decorative metalwork, though.

Yahoo! More pix! Grabbing cup of coffee to sip while I enjoy these. Thanks for posting more! :-)

Not asking for any trade secrets since I'm not brave enough (or close enough) to explore these places, but do some of you who know each other from exploring the same places swap stories and locations of interesting things, or do you keep your exciting finds a closely held secret and let each other find stuff independently?

These days it's actually criminal for this to occur. With HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996) you can get a large fine and prison time for this ("if the offense is committed with intent to sell, transfer, or use individually identifiable health information for commercial advantage, personal gain, or malicious harm, be fined not more than $250,000, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both"), although there are lesser fines for just leaving things lying about as they did here.

I don't believe the law is retroactive, however, but it's still a damn shame to see these records exposed like this for all the world to see. Most health care professionals go to (and have always gone to) great lengths to keep client confidentiality, but once you leave the employ of an institution or agency they "own" the client files. This is something the state agency that ran the place or the previous healthcare facility owners should be slapped for.

In my humble opinion. :-)

I work in an institution and the floor above my office hasn't had folks living up there for about 10 years and it's every bit as bad as this right up there because all the windows aren't sealed. Sometimes us lower floor luckies get the peeling pain effect from leaks and such (it's also quite humid here). Luckily we have a great new maintenance director who took care of the leaks so now the paint stays on our walls, but only on the floors where there is climate control. Surprisingly, it really doesn't take long for a place to look this bad.

The newer models aren't anywhere as neat as the older ones. :-(
http://morningsidefunerals.com.au/images/caskets/pages/grecian_urn.htm

One of my personal favorites - what a great job you did capturing the colors and texture!

Cool - thanks!

OK, thanks. I noticed that a lot of people were making assumptions that this had been a psychiatric facility, given some of the comments people made about "what must have gone on here." :-)

Thanks!

What's pathetic is that MY lights never even last a few months and these things have been continuously working since the beginning of time. Where's the danged justice there? 8-(
Maybe this is just another zen koan - "If there's no one there to soak up the light rays, do light bulbs last longer?"
;-)

. . . and plenty of fresh air.

Oh MAN, is this a great shot! :-)

Super colors. This looks like the opening shot of a horror flick. :-)

I like how you centered this - the colors are pretty amazing, too.