What a pity this couldn't have been salvaged and turned into a (tastful) tourist attraction with guided tours. It makes me sad to see something this elegant and with a presumably, interesting history, rot away.
you're right. it reeks of innuendo. and i love it!
lynn, i'm still grinning at your "formication" comment. with a mindset like that, how can you go wrong?
the picture would have been fairly unremarkable if it hadn't been for the "hard" rivetted at the bottom. what an exceptional find! the last word sort of looks different, almost as if it were an afterthought. i've never seen any sign like it!
yep, it's the addition of the last word that makes every word suddenly seem risque, LOL! hehe.
i bet you cracked up when you saw it, eh, motts? i want a sign like that....
Ah yes, you can enter the 'belly of the ship' but can you EXIT the belly? Perhaps, once crossing the threshold, a steel door slams shut behind you and you're trapped, lost in complete darkness of this listing, groaning hulk, stumbling blindly over the bones of the poor souls who came before you and with each fall, you are reminded that you will never leave the belly of this beast...
But I digress- Great pictures, by the way...
I was a nursing student and did my psych. rotation at DSH. After the culture shock and lots of tears( I was only 19 years old), it wasn't so bad. However, A ward was absolutely not for students. We just visited to observe. It was for the female violent patients as well as alot of elderly who probably had Alzheimers. The older women walked around mostly naked-following each other in endless circles ,chanting and incontinent as they walked. Then there was Mary--250 lbs of solid muscle-six feet and a violet streak that was terrifying. She had hacked her sister to death with an axe. It was quite a place !