1,466 Comments Posted by autoguy

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That gas oven has to be from the 30s at least. Maybe it came over on the Mayflower?
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Ok, I guess the doors were not that fancy. Somebody just decided to kick the crap out of them. :o)
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Fancy panel design. The door in the foreground appears to still have a sliver of wood in in that center panel. I imagine those big panels were quite decorative and somebody put the grab on them.
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Ferdy, it almost makes my arms hurt when I see that too. Lots of work troweling that plaster day in and day out. I used to make play swords out of old lathe sticks when I was a little shaver.
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The decorative iron structures under the windows are a Victorian architectural feature called a "balconette". They vary in styles, and this type was indeed designed to hold window boxes or potted plants. They were mainly seen as a decorative feature, but I would imagine that people liked them because they added a safety factor for small children and pets as well.

A balconette is also a style of bra.
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Thnx for all the new posts Motts! I need to stop by more often.

A forum search might reveal past strings about this subject, including Icepick Wally, as I have dubbed him. Some of us have somewhat of a morbid curiosity of such subjects, and I am no exception to that. I do not recall every detail in this documentary, but I highly recommend viewing it.

*Icepick Wally is reported as using genuine icepicks from his own kitchen on his first victims.

*His partner, a legitimate surgeon in prefrontal lobotomy procedures, walked into Wally's office one time to find him pounding an icepick into somebody's head. That ended their association. Freeman was not a surgeon, nor is an office a proper operating theater.

*It's reported that during a prefrontal procedure with Dr. Watts, Wally let go of a heavy cutting instrument so he could step back and get a photo. This instrument then sunk deep into his victim's brain and killed them.

I am certainly no professional in the field, but I believe that lobotomy is a "heroic" procedure that is considered as a last resort. Icepick Wally roamed the countryside pounding icepicks into people's heads, slicing frontal lobes to shreds, as though he was curing the sniffles for everyone. This egotistical man felt his ability as a showman was far more valuable than human life. He was indeed a true madman.

But then, this is all just my opinion. I just call it as I see it. Your mileage may vary.

For more on this subject, the wayback machine on archive dot org might still cough up lobotomy dot info. There you can read the original instructional manual for the Freeman and Watts prefrontal lobotomy procedure. If you dare.
Ephemera: The Lobotomist
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Germs with no corners had not yet evolved.
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Travel safe and well Motts! Thnx for posting the things I will never see.

It looks like that one chair got sick and blew chunks.
Ephemera: Counting the Years
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I'm going with the zombie juice theory. Zombies were feeding there.
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Mmmm! Tasty morsels of MRSA and Gram negative. A delectable treat.
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I see her arm is reaching down behind your back. What's that about?
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This is the lobotomy chair. Quick and easy service by Icepick Wally.
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And help yourself to a knife and take a few stabs.
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Zombies! Yes. I do what I can to alert people to the dangers of zombies in these buildings. It could be said the alarm goes off when zombies invade seeking brains to eat. But that room stores cadavers, so I'll speculate that the alarm warned of new zombies becoming active that are ready for zombie control collars.
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I have one of those on my kitchen sink. Handy to have for those occasional home-spun autopsies on the neighbors.