201 Comments Posted by max

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I believe they have less restrictive forms of artificial respiration today. I'm not sure if Iron Lungs are still required in extreme cases.
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Priceless shot!
I get clausterphobic just looking at those things. Between 30 years in an iron lung and death, neither one particularly appeals to me!
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What was weighed with a Fairbanks Morse scale?
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Sounds a little Dickensian.
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Whether it's vandals, the wrecking ball, or mother nature that destroys this place, you're looking at the last image in its pristine state.
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The scheme looks almost Hindu, until you examine it closer!
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Big urns for soup. Institutions did well with soup. Soup was cost effective and didn't involve any dangerous cutlery for the patients!
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Lynne, you could be an abandoned hospitals tour guide!
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They left the curtains up! Very nice.
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That setup looks kind of Rod Serling-esque if you ask me!
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Looks like some gangsta wants you to know it's HIS abandoned dentist chair!
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It probably looked friendlier with all the bunks, furniture, lighting, and amenities. On the other hand, maybe it was always a dump. You could have had really nice private rooms for the kids, but the taxpayers wouldn't want to pay!
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What could you get for them? Uh, how about arrested and charged with trespassing, breaking and entering, vandalism, and theft of state property?
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Feh, all function, no form. Typical architecture of the 1950s and 1960s. The ironic thing is a lot of these prefab buildings actually were not very effecient or user friendly. In a lot cases BOTH form AND function were sacrificed for CHEAP!
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Hey, that looks like like that motel rom I stayed in when my car broke down outside of Cleveland that time! ; )