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Now what would really be eerie is if you were in there and that piano started playing on it's own.

I guess youre right. But If there are windows "Someone" (besides Motts and now us) must know the lights are still on... seems like a major fire hazard. Must look pretty freekin scary at night seeing lights burning in a delapodated building, gives me the creeps!

I wonder...what would be the point in peepholes if they DIDN'T keep patients down there?

...great, as if this pic was creepy enough. Now I can't stop imagining a guy hanging by his neck just out of the frame. Wonderful.

For the longest time I couldn't figure out why this shot bugged me, then I realized...no bleachers. Are they behind you?

Lynne, I used to work in a group home for people with disabilities, and I always thought the haggling over the terms was really lame. Your post shed a lot of light on that subject for me, though. I guess I never really thought of it in that way before. Thanks.

That light gives it a menacing presence!

Or would you rather just take the elevator?

If you're not gonna say it, I'm gonna say it.
"Is it safe?"
Sorry, couldn't resist!

Uh, no thanks, Kassie. That upholstry looks toootally nasty. Like barf out!

It ain't valuable anymore! Although I have a CD by an Australian guy named Ross Bolleter who uses abandoned pianos and organs. Compositions are specified for "ruined piano" and "decayed organ."
http://www.pogus.com/21021.html

You ate Goddog's blood on a Ritz cracker?!?!?!?! Did you at least wash your hands first? =8-o

I have a lot of compassion for people with cerebral palsy. Mobility we take for granted is soooo difficult for them. I recommend the movie "My Left Foot," with Daniel Day-Lewis. They used to just treat CP sufferers like they were "idiots." Christy Brown turned out to be a great artist and writer.
Anyway, hydrotherapy, like ECT, could be used therapeutically OR abusively, as it sometimes was.

I hate to be an oinking chauvinist female sow here, but how come no one made any comments about the spacious maternity/delivery room with amphitheater and multiple seats for one's staring pleasure in the Cynthia Lee Memorial Hospital and all of the sudden when we are potentially looking at the private parts of the male anatomy there is discomfort that people would be watching while they are in a compromising position? Mebbe it's different when the stirrup is on the other foot, eh? Eh? [nudge nudge wink wink]

Oink oink oink oink.

Honestly, most of the time y'all men are in pretty good shape because no one ever asks to stick a camera up your dress to take a picture of you when you are definitely at your best - giving birth. Videocameras in birthing rooms are the stupidest idea anyone ever came up with.

But let me tell you how I REALLY feel about this. :-)

While we ought to grant as much humanity to retarded citizens as we can, it does bear mentioning that people with severe retardation are often incapable of the social anxiety that would make bodily exposure humiliating.
Institutional care is depressing in its factory-like treatment of patients, but truly dysfunctional facilities could be downright barbarous. Among the iniquities Geraldo Rivera exposed at Willowbrook was that staff herded masses of patients into a room with a drain and just hosed them down. Kinda makes that tub room look like a health spa by comparison!