142 Comments Posted by Lyric

Once again. We are forced to remind new visitors that the information on these buildings is not given out. PERIOD.
Stop asking.

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A little gift for each of you. From me

Please note that what I wrote in Parenthesis, is not part of the quote in the least. It is a translation of sorts, so that people will hopefully lose the cruel and unusual thoughts from their heads.

To all the Iron Fisted Asshats of whatever the rest of it went. And Opacity Addicts
Happy Thanksgiving!

There was a time when casket companies would sell in bulk to institutions, especially when they had a morgue and someone who would embalm the dead.
Some of these hospitials also served as poor houses and many (like one I grew up near) had fully functioning gardens, greenhouses, power plants and dairies/slaughter houses. They were fully functioning cities within a comunity.
Some institutes did provide housing forcare staff and doctors who lived on site.
It was also not uncommon to find that there were also cemetaries or crematoriums not far so that they could bury the patients and poor in a respectful manner.
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I keep waiting for a cloaked monster to come around the corner and peer at you. Beckoning you closer.....

Gravesend is definately up there in my favorites!
I know you have your vacation photos to finish up. I can't wait to see the Michigan ones. The Ypsi scared me when I was a kid and it was still open, and the MCD has always fascinated me.
I'm just sorry that DHCO in Northville was demolished before you could see it.
Anyway. I'll wait patiently.

Grifs- You are absolutely right. There isn't a location or a gallery that doesn't fascinate me. I just can't pick a single favorite.

Hey Motts- Which of these is your absolute favorite?

Sleepless-
Mister Motts out of habit, professionalism, and his own personal safety. Does not reveal the true locations, how to get there, or how to get into these buildings, on this site.
Please take a moment to read the About section of his website.

Of course, I like the lonely chair shots. But it realy is hard to choose a favorite out of the collection.

I am sorry to hear that we are losing a landmark, in this manner.
I sincerely hope that there was noone in the building when the blaze began, and that if there were, they were able to make a safe exit.

You would be surprised. There are hospitals that are accredited with JACHO(sic?)
have to have in storage, a certain number of gallons of potable water(suitable for drinking), non potable water(not suitable for drinking), gasoline for generators, as well as food rations, blankets and linens, in the event of a disaster.
Granted, the barrels in this picture are likely past the expiration date, but storing water and basic necessities is not just a Cold War relic, or a war relic in general. It is still in common practice.
You just don't hear about it.
Infact, the last time we heard anyone really stress the importance of storage, was during Y2K, when everyone scrambled for the world to fall apart on New Years.

Tuberculosis, also known as Consumption during the turn of the last millenia. (1800-1900). Refered from here on as TB.
Is the most common major infectious disease today.
Transmission can only occur from people with active TB disease,
The cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is a slow-growing aerobic bacterium that divides every 16 to 20 hours. This is extremely slow compared to other bacteria,TB is spread through aerosol droplets which are expelled when persons with active TB disease cough, sneeze, speak, or spit.
What happens with this disease is that the alveoli inside the lungs(the little grape bundle looking things that help with oxygen transfer and CO2 diffusion), begin to harden and stop functioning.
Often the result of this is the patient coughing up great amounts of blood.
The term consumption came from the appearance of the patients looking as though they were being consumed from the inside out.
During the later parts of the 1800's patients were sent out west in hopes that the higher elevations and drier climates would help them breathe.
Later when the Iron Lungs were developed, they found equal if not better success in the treatment of this disease.
Iron Lungs also went into common usage when the polio epidemic hit, and there were paitients
whose chest muscles were affected and they were unable to inhale and exhale without assistance.
Tuberculosis Hospitals did not begin to open in the United States until 1885. The American Tuberculosis Association, changed names and is now the American Lung Association.

In the many years and study of this disease, there are treatments and vaccinations available. For more information on the disease and your area of the country, contact your local health department, or speak with your own doctor.

Doc Holliday the famous poker playing gunslinger from the wild west days. Died of TB, in a Sanitorium in Colorado in 1887.

I hope this was enligjtening enough, if not, do a search for Tuberculosis in the search engine of choice, and read up.
I could have gotten deeper on the subject, but I didn't want to sound like an Epidemiologist.

and he huffed..... and he puffed...... and he blew the wall in.....

Once you crunch.. You can't stop....