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My father was a TV repair man in the 50's and 60's and I remember these sets vividly. That door under the picture tube was a phonograph, you can see the tone arm hanging down. This probably played 78's MAYBE 45's. The other side probably held a AM/FM radio. This was the late 50's answer to an entertainment center. There were no VCR's at the time. We were the first ones on the block to have color TV and I remember everyone coming over Sunday night to watch "Disney's Wonderful World of Color" show as it was called, Tinkerbell would fly around and splash color all over, it was a BIG THING back then!! One of the few shows broadcase in color. And the proper way to "deactivate" a picture tube is from the back. Just snap off the end of the long thin tube and you'll hear the suction going in. Doing it from the front either with a rock or your foot makes it "implode" as the inside is a vacuum. (I learned a lot from my dad!)

Sorry binabinaaa it was built for the Nazi.
From the thirdreichruins site:

"opened officially on 22 June 1935 by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Speaking to a crowd of 20,000 people, Goebbels called the Thingstätte a "veritable church of the Reich.""

looks like someones house rather than a fancy old hotel

who builds a building with only one FUCKING WINDOW!!!!!

It's a really sad place. I went there yesterday. My sister went as a child as our step mum worked there. They were very cruel to some of the patients. So sad...

Maybe 'it' was looking for a handy soap dispencer??

apparently there is a group of ppl who go round places such as this in the area that are sort of 'forbidden'. Anyone know where I can get details about these places.

Gday great pics and a great fire bot. does anyone know where the hewitt went?

wow! so beautiful again i love it so much!!

It has only been in the past 15 years or so that pediatric surgeons have been using anesthesia on any infants because they also thought that they "felt no pain," so don't get too excited about what people thought about in the MR/DD field 50 years ago - they thought the same thing about "normal" babies until just recently. Check out the following article that was in the New York Times as "recently" as 1992:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9E0CE1DC173CF931A35752C0A964958260

P.S. Do you know what the rate of abuse is in the community as compared to institutional facilities? Neither does anyone else, because you can't keep track of people as easily when they are so geographically disparate.

This is NOT a pitch for institutionalizing people by any stretch, it's a pitch for using the intellectual part of your brain as well as the emotional part. Read all of the introduction in which Motts states that he is quoting what is on the plaque at the Ladd School, rather than anything he might personally believe.

You are saying you keep people in bathtubs full of ice and ice water for many hours, sometimes days? Even though people die after an hour or so because that's what human bodies do after that amount of exposure? I don't know everything about everything, but I do know that being in ice/ice water for multiple hours will kill a person. If you don't know that and you are doing this, either you are fairly unaware of what is happening in your facility or you must have one hell of a mortality rate. :-)

http://www.ussartf.org/cold_water_survival.htm

Lynne- why do you think you know everything about everything? We DO use COLD BATHS in the US. I cant say where I work but we do. What do you think these tubs are for, just bathing?

Whats with the tanning lamp from the ceiling????

sums up your skill in one picture. amazing, award winning.

They are indeed LDT engines, probably returned from Vietnam where the drivers were none too careful with them. It resulted in a lot of engines having problems and they were simply replaced, and the old engines were sent back to be rebuilt. Then the EPA decided the engines needed to burn cleaner, and they had to be replaced with a new design - so the old ones piled up at the factory. That's the short version. The long version can be found on SteelSoldiers.com or G503.com.