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If you weren't shooting digital I would say this was a double exposure.

Gahh! At first I thought it was someone staring through a hole in the wall.

Breathtaking.

O_O I will never complain about my old college dorm again.

I love spiral staircases! (almost typed "scarecases" lol) The sense of vertigo in this shot is awesome.

A lot of these were used to move a patient in restraints (not necessarily a patient with cerebal palsy, but possibly.) The chair would allow you to pick up the patient and run straps across the outside to keep them in the chair without having to remove the restraints they are already in.

Actually a lot of medical records are supposed to be stored for 10 years now days, but they still should have been destroyed around 2009 ish and secured in a better fashion. (Locked cabinets or better locks on the doors.) I work in a clinic and you would be amazed at the kind of stuff we keep in terms of records. I'm something of a hoarder so my desk is down right scary. The lack of responsibility in taking care of the records is astounding though. That alone would be grounds for a lawsuit :/

Flowers in the living-room - directly growing there!

I once stayed at a hostel with real mushrooms growing on the bathroom-florr - unfortunately the hostel was still running...^^

Dig the stops resting on top of the sink - all those years back when you took these photos, somebody had already grabbed the copper!

Back in the day when my dad was in the army he worked at Walter Reed for a while in the morge so he knows what it's like cleaning colons.

atlas shrugged

maybe that day was his death sentence

Pookie and Boiler,
I'm very sorry for what you went through when you were at Gaebler. I was there from 1986-1988 for attempting suicide several times. I'm so glad there are finally people who have been there who I can connect with after many years. I'm Luke and I have many negative memories of that horrible place. I went there before thanksgiving of 2010 before the demolition. I saw the activities center and basketball court, which I remember using sometimes. I might know you from my time there. It's really terrible that the building is gone now. Please reply to me. I would really like to talk to you.

I tried to get in for a photo shoot and the owners wouldn't even return my call. The preservation unit was all for the photo shoot there. But sadly we could not get permission to go in.

Bob, you may want to rethink that. These photos were taken in 2004. There are web sites with more recent pics and the building has deteriorated greatly. Opacity does not give out information on how to enter these facilities for legal reasons. That being said, if you still choose to explore this campus, be careful & God's speed.