349 Comments Posted by pegasus64

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Like some prehistoric rib cage...
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It was a fitness place...that is why they had skinny doors...inspiration to lose weight and use the indoor toilet instead of the outhouse!
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No one trying to get in...but made a spectaculr effort to get out...
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Dizzying...gives me vertigo...who has the pook bucket?
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Love the detail on the balcony
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Is that brick on the ceiling? Amazing!
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Looks like a room they used for group ECT!
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Back in the day it was allowed...probably encouraged to chemically "restrain" patients as they were easier to care for then. The lobotomy was also a popular procedure. The residents in our old facility were taken outside every day for air...it was considered part of their therapy. Even the bed-ridden ones were wheeled out for their 15 minutes of fresh air.
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Patients were easier to moniter in groups and as over-crowding took over, partitions and dividers just took up unnecessary room that they could use to stuff people in.
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Yeah, what is that grate behind the chair...an airduct? And what is that in the upper right corner...a door or window?
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Psych patients often draw their dreams...or their nightmares...
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Amen, Canada! Maybe they were put there as inspiration?
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The straps on the first mattress could have been used to tie the mattress down. Also, they could have run restaint straps through it?
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My grandma had a tufted couch like that...kinda scratchy. Definately not regulation psych furniture. I love the ratty sheers hanging on the windows.
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They used to paint/stain around a carpet or runner to save money. In some houses, they even used to put cheaper wood in the hardwood floor where the rug went.