222 Comments Posted by Sketch

For some reason it made me think of "All over you" by Live. Might just be the way she is being held up, but it made me think of the line: "Our love is like water. Pinned down and abused for being strange."

Dulcinea_Lady: That's why Motts carries a flashlight! He may be lost, but at least he can see that he's lost! :D

Wow, you've managed to make even the water look sinister! Amazing photo...
~Me: If you didn't use it for 90 years, I think it would quit functioning! It would probably rust away... We are still talking about this lovely ferry, correct? ;)

Mine is purplefire at hotmail dot com. Since most of what I get is junk, be sure to have a title that stands out, like "From ~Me" or "From opacity".

Not to bring up a tired subject, but if you were to sell calenders of your work, you might be able to get enough to buy a real nice zoom lens. ;)

OK, ~Me, But I need your address...

Well, sure, if you want to be logical about it... :D I'll send him an e-mail tonight and let you guys know if I hear anything back from him...

Well, I have two guesses: First, when steam condenses it actually raises the temperature of the surrounding air. By the same method, when water vaporizes it cools the temperature of the air. This could be the method to cool an area, although I don't know how it would work on a large scale.

The other option is that steam is used to run the engines that actually do the cooling. Anyone else know?

They were lost because of smoking? Seriously, though, I would imagine that they were needed somewhere else after this closed down, so they were taken off and moved. Anyone?

Yeah, I read that too, but I wasn't sure how it would fit in with something this old... It has to have been years since a letterpress has been used. If it was him, it would be interesting to get in touch with him and see what he has to say about this! Maybe he could shed some light on this mystery!!!

HIPAA is pretty new, so if this area clsoed down before HIPAA it wouldn't apply. I agree that they should have had more regard for their patients and should have taken these out, but at the time it might have been considered normal to leave those behind, and not insensitive at all. These might not have even been considered confidential at that time. It might have been cost prohibitive to move them to a new location, so they were left behind.

Then again, there is the possibility that this is administrative paperwork (order forms, employee info, etc) that truly wasn't important at all. It's like Lynne says, these employees were truly (usually) doing the best they could, and wouldn't abuse patients like this on purpose...

Looks like a machine we had to use in one of my high school classes. You would expose a metallic sheet to an image, run it through a developer, then load that sheet onto the drum, fill it with ink, and let it run. As I remember, ours broke down frequently, so part of the class was learning how to fix the more common things that could happen to it... Good to see one again after all these years!

This is still in the dentist area, correct? It looks so different in color than it did in your B&W panorama!

Motts - if this gives away any info about the site, please delete it immediately. I don't know what it means, just what I can read...

The top line appears to say "HENRI TTA HOWSE" (I'm guessing it should be "Henrietta, but is missing the E), which could be the name of the person in charge? The last word on the first line is "Operation". The next few lines are too blurry to read, but the second to final line says "Louis Mitler", and the final line says (I think) 1900. Motts, if you ever get the chance to take another photo of this, I'd be happy to try again!

Maybe those soap dispensers knocked the last digit down? It looks like they took out part of the "E" in welcome when they fell too...