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Viva los demas soldados!

I can just imagine how ripe it smelled.

How many bodies has that stretcher taken?

thanks, toddle, like your thought!

It was a common misconception at the time that you could shake the fat loose and the body would expel it. In a place like this Patients who were thinner would have been easier to care for.

It's an early form of a label printer the company that made them stil exists to day.More accurately it would be a stamping machine you could probably use it on anything from files to patients robes.

Cheers on the great photos

The front facade notwithstanding, the entire building holds the essence of a totalitarian architecture. If the location was not stated, I would have guess it to be in Germany or Russia. Oddly enough, it is situated in the American midwestern state of Michigan.

Reaching for the soap dispenser...

...Yup, good old L.B. had her issues-anybody seen the play "Blood Relations"?

Lithium, LOL about the couch gets 42!!!

Steve, that's beyond the merely creepy. Has that kind of thing gone away in 30 years? Lynne?

that crazy

"Used to scare the hell out of all the boys though" -Long Island, wow, that's a definite role reversal! Brava.

I don't see any thick metal grating. That alone lessens the creepiness. These seem to be normal screens.

Umm, Lynne, Our-Lady-Of-Benevolent-Knowledge, I hope you didn't have to work at a place where timeout/seclusion was like a big game hunt, as Dr F. and children's center alumni have mentioned...