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Last time I was in a hospital they provided patients with styro pitchers like these for water. Have no idea why they dated them though...

Was the little lead apron hanging on a nearby peg?

Now this IS a waste...I know there's a market for bowling alleys and, believe it or not, you CAN move them! I saw where someone bought a decomissioned air force base and converted it to commercial use and cut up one of the bowling alleys to make a humongous confrence table - it was about 15' long and must have weighed over 1,000 lbs 'cause that's rock maple, edge laminated and VERY thick.

I'm struck by the contrasting textures of the fluffy pillow, soft blanket and crunchy paint chips...

That is what I enjoy in urban exploring...seeing how mans creations hold up against nature when no maintenance is done. I have a strong suspicion that if large neutron bombs were set off, eliminating mankind, that within 50-75 years there would be little indication of mankinds brief reign on earth...

This set actually reminds me more of the 60's soap opera 'Dark Shadows'

Indeed it is...they re-roofed the catholic cathedral in St. Paul last year & it had a shiny copper dome for all of 3-4 months before it started to whether. Now it's already accumulating it's green mantle of verdegris, though it has nothing on THESE roofs! ^_^

Geez, first terazzo floors and now an ornate chandeliered room with stained glass skylight? Methinks this building had a different, higher use in a previous existence...perhaps a masonic temple?

These places make me think of military bases with their tripply redundant power supplies. Any reason why they all had their own power plants instead of tying into the local grid?

There are even BIGGER ones. A local news story about 6 months ago here concerned a nurse who was burned to death when she was inside a WALK-IN autoclave and it somehow activated...

Hmmm...hope somebody wasn't trying to get high enough to vandalize that beautiful glass. Looks like there's an interesting design in the floor too....

Come to think of it, LBC is painted everywhere on the property. That's writing, not art.

Excuse me, did you say artwork??

Yeah! I don't know how I missed that other shower trolley. I think I was too busy looking at the "restraint thing," which I am guessing is a sling from an old Hoyer lift. These are mechanical lifts used to transfer people from place to place without having to use your backs to lift them. Safer for them, easier for you. You can lift folks out of their chairs, onto toilets, into bed, into the tub (or shower trolley!), etc.
http://www.dmeonline.com/PTLIFTS1.JPG
http://www.rehabmart.com/pimages2/pic113-D_en.jpg
http://www.rehabmart.com/2003/hoyers/Hoyer%20Lift%20Images/RM_Hoy18.jpg
http://www.edmond-wheelchair.com/thumbnails/Patient%20Lifts/Hoyer/70056%20sling.JPG

Aha! So that's what this is, a shower trolley!
http://www.opacity.us/image1956.htm

Thanks for the link Lynne, now I will have a better idea of what the function is of the equipment I'm looking at!

And yeah, it's definitely a slab tub, there was a full sized bathtub in the room too.