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scratch & dent sale...

I don't think there is any way you could walk through any of the halls in the Kirkbride anymore, at least NOT the 1st and 2nd male wards. The roof is all gone over these parts, the damage appears to be pretty thorough. It is kinda interesting to get a bird's eye view of the floor plan but damn, can't believe how far gone it is now:( It's practically demolished from nature.
This is seen from Google maps
https://www.google.com...4,572m/data=!3m1!1e3

Another great album, thank you.

Several ideas occur
1. Wood steps may have rotted out.
2. The contract was written up to remove the stairs by someone who forgot to include the cage or was hoping to get the cage removed gratis. Ironworker's are nice people but they don't do gratis very often.
3. The cage was useful in the removal of the stairs and no one wanted to pay for scaffolding (and the men to build it) to remove it once the stairs were gone.
4. the steps were cement poured on a thin metal form that rusted out as the cement decayed and it collapsed into the pit we can't see.
5. ??? Your guess is as good as any of mine :-)

THe basins at my school look the same (bulid in the 60s ) :D

ACtually, I'm quiete sure that there were stalls. I've never heard (or seen) a public toilett without stalls. Neither in Germany where I live, nor in any other country I've visited.

Rust generally moves very slowly once it has achieved a certain thickness but if there is moving water or something that carries the surface away it will move faster and deeper into the metal seeking to create that skin again.

Just noticed the mural of a beach with shallow surf coming in on the left side.

It'd say... this building is demolishing itself.

Seeing this jacket- are straight-jackets still in use in the US?

Chairparty!

The doors.
No doors?

IRON ?

# 8!
Goodness - thanks for this picture.
Can´t believe the two little hinges on the peeking - peeping square - and a doorknob like a spool of thread. Awesome really

Ohhh?
Why would anyone want to take an old straight-jacket??
Would that be cool?