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Can't believe I got onto a gallery this fast...anyway, out of all the color combinations I've seen in hospitals, this has to be one of the nicest ones. I think the yellow and turquoise really play on each other.

Why would a target look like a pill bottle

Kind of looks like a satilite photo of a nucliar explosion in the middle of a mid size urban city

Wonder if a light came on when you opened the door

No, the book "Asylum" are the photographs shot by Christopher Payne: http://asylumbook.com

Sometimes there are similar shots taken by different photographers without either having knowledge of the other.

I am working to put a small publication out next year, still working on the subject matter.

I know this seems creepy and scary and just plain morbid to us, the people looking at a picture of something from many many decades ago...but...

If I can get on my soapbox:

Maybe the people who actually had to USE these things found them not so scary considering the alternative: death from polio or whatever. The families were probably a little scared to see their loved one in one of these "contraptions" but then again, they were probably very thankful that they exsisted and their loved ones were able to use one and maybe live for much longer than they would without it.

Just trying to put the shoe on the other foot.

Yes, they are creepy to our 21st century eyes...but not so much to people in the early 20th century....it was a blessing.

*Hopping off soapbox (almost breaking leg in the process)*

Whoa that was a LONG jump down!

If they catch you with 2 milks...you have to drink that stuff that is in The Jar in the other picture...

OK...I don't think I want that egg-nog in the fridge now...

Perfect example of nature dismantling what man has made. Everything is reclaimed eventually.

You always find the coolest stuff in the basements.

I can't imagine a worst scenario than being locked in a room, alone, in an abandoned building, without a cell phone. In the summer you could die from hyperthermia. In the winter there's hypothermia. After the batteries in your flashlight died the cockroaches would be free to roam all over your ass after the sun goes down. But that's a moot point because you would die of dehydration from the lack of water in about a week or two.

We had these same doors in the first hospital building that I worked in. There was one for Central Sterile and one for the pharmacy.
I think our sign was even the same font as this one.
Now a days the pharmacy is locked up like Fort Knox. There are 2 doors to central sterile that are placed one on either side of the department. Very far apart as hallways run. The dirty stuff goes in one and the clean stuff is passed out from the other. Better for procedures, but a pain when you need something. The dirty door was placed so it was handy to the nursing staff. The clean door NOt so much.

Yeah...

Sterile water--I don't THINK so...

Nice colors. Brings me back to 11th Grade Chemistry class (which I FAILED thank you very much!)...fascinating that it is in such a pristine state. :)

Dang...now that soap for the soap dispensers joke isn't so funny lol!

Oh well...I tried!

:D

ROTFLMBO Debi G.

Now THAT Is what I call an initiation!

I would hate to be the poor shmuck to get scared like that tho.

Sheesh...nightmares anyone? Still funny as all heck though!