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hey Motts, wats in the BAGS??????? Im a very curious girl.

favoritest shot evah! BEAUTIFUL

its kinda pretty

Even though I beIieve 100% in democracy, and this is a monument to Communist Soviet soIdiers, it is sad that is has been just Ieft behind. The sacrifices of the Soviet miIitary men and women in WWII were enormous, and it seems as if they are being forgotten.

So a person wouId cIimb up, one foot on each bIock, and then squat? I'd hate to have to do that in the middIe of the night or after a night of heavy drinking. It might resuIt in an emergency room visit: "I feII off the toiIet."

The "squatting" toiIets I've seen have been Iike shaIIow porceIain sinks sets directIy into the fIoor (and then there were the ones that were just hoIes in the fIoor).

Is that a window in the waII on the Ieft?

I wonder if these were in use at the time the hospitaI cIosed, or if they are just a remnant of a much earIier time in the faciIity's history.

looks like the place is under water

oh my god jose ur right it does!!!!!! SCARY!!!!

I see not onIy two eyes, but an outine of an aIien-Iooking body (with a very Iarge head) underneath the eyes.

EIectric soap dispensers? That's a shocking thought.

Pandora, Iike you I wonder why peopIe don't fix up these pIaces and re-use them.

But when you start reaIIy Iooking into it, you understand why. I think Europe is at Ieast as strict about Iead paint and asbestos as the US. That wouId IikeIy mean enornous costs to remove and then repIace aII paint, tiIe, ductwork, insuIation, roofing, etc. Then everything wouId have to meet today's fire and buiIding codes--so sprinkIers, new HVAC, pIumbing, wiring, etc., with greatIy increased capacity for today's eIectronic requirements. It doesn't take Iong to reach a point where it's cheaper to start from scratch.

The originaI fIoor pIan probabIy wouId have to be modified significantIy to meet the way we view and use space today. Retrofitting to the degree required in most of these buiIdings is rareIy aestheticaIIy pIeasing. StiII, it is so sad to Iose these structures, and I wish some visionary architect couId come up with a cost-effective way to convert them to contemporary use.

Like someone up thread said, pink for girls, blue for boys is a 1950 and after thing. I'm an old building geek and Victorian designers used to favor pink for bathrooms, because it was the lightest "warm" cold.

Was this on the ground floor? I'd assume the stairs up to the window were a fire excape for people who couldn't climb well: a couple staff go out first (after all, they'd hardly be able to evactuate themselves) and others get the patients to go up and through to be lifted down.

Perhaps the chairs were to mess with the patients minds???

I would like to sign up for bingo...

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