314 Comments Posted by claudia

This blue and the green,yellow, and pink of other pictures are what we affectionately call "hospital colors". They were supposed to be calming. Yuck!

I think Binky is right. The lines of the different strips of wallpaper are visible especially on the left side. Still not an attractive color scheme.

I also immediately saw a priest. Funny how our mind picks up details and makes assumptions.

That orange color and the bright blue remind me of those bed covers also. But some of the other stuff looks like it could have been the curtains that were on the ceiling rails so you could give a patient the illusion of privacy.

That blue thing is a plastic urinal which for some unknown reason was called a "duck". Plastic ones could be discarded post the patient discharge.

The hospital that I worked in had a special cart called the "morgue" cart that took bodies away. The cart could be raised to help get the "dead weight" of the patient onto it. There was a rectangular frame about 2 feet above the metal cart (no mattress so it could be cleaned easily). This frame was covered with a muslin cover that went almost to the floor. The cart above may have held a body at one time or another, but I think this hospital probably had a specialized cart for morgue transfers.

Started by Madame Blavatsky in 1875. She was an occultist, spirit medium and author who founded The Theosophical Society. Born August 12, 1831 and died May 8 1891. She is what we would call today a free thinker. I worked with a secretary that was into this religion. Very strange compared with other religions.

I'd love to read some of the paper work. Especially the older ones. And if you are arrested and in jail it is public record. You can do a search and find out anything about a person's background including any tickets or jail time.

Thanks RIckk for the formula and analysis. Took care of a woman with long hair that had been maced. Lots of mace in her hair. They brought her to the emergency room so WE could give her a shower. Guess who got that job? My eyes were watering just being in the small shower room with her. Nasty stuff.

The fabric gets brittle when it ages and then the top layer peels. The duct tape on the floor makes me wonder if they were trying to hold the fabric together on some of the pads. Had this type at the hospital I worked at until they began to age. At that point the infection control staff had a fit and they went away. No infection control in a prison.

Very beginning of Phantom of the opera. Problem with a piano in this type of situation is with the sound(ing) board. At this point it is warped from the water and probably broken from the fall when the orchestra pit collapsed. The ivories still look good and might be salvageable. Piano repair people declare them DOA when the sounding board is damaged. So I am just going to think of it as a cheap piano that was damaged before it was abandoned. Denial is good.

Not all that familiar with plumbing, but the thing on the bottom sitting on the board kind of looks like a shower head. EH??

The arrows that appear in several of the pictures look like they have a purpose and not just kids messing around. Some are blue and some are red. Wonder who was on a personal guided tour.

Great gallery. I love to wander through cemeteries. This style of photo gives a surreal appearance to the graves. Love it. Thanks for posting this.

N it is a molded stump. In a cemetery near me the family had additional smaller logs molded to out line the entire family plot. They can be quite elaborate if the family added their own touch.