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Looking back at this gallery, that is a very pronounced nipple for a photo op! Might have made for some interesting pictures.

It's my opinion that the neglect and use of mind numbing drugs and assertive approach that treated adults like children actually made people go off. In such places very often these rooms meant for extreme last resort were used as punishment and just to abuse people because they could. An awful lot of the people who work in the services meant to help those whom are least able to help themselves attract scum just like child centered professions attract paedos.

looks like the person who was under the drier was there too long and were dried until there was nothing left of them but jerky and their coffee cup. Either that, or the drier vomited up the detritus all over the chair.

There appears to be a window unit AC in the "room" on the left but that can't be an outside wall. Very strange.

Thanks flushed for the input. I guess it just unnerves me that they would lock someone in a room, dead bolted from the outside. I suppose if someone was really violent and dangerous then it would make sense. I must be "normal" because I don't think I would like it, however that normality may quickly fade and make me MORE violent if I had that in my nature.

Poor Ernie. . . he's so abused

I think we should just be grateful for what we get. I appreciate seeing the place my brother was in and out of for years for the first time finally.

freespirit76, that cage over the heater is enough to prevent burns though such cages do get uncomfortable to touch if the air is not moving around them.

That is what a properly done bathroom install job should look like after years of use.

Eldo this was the kind of place they locked people up involuntarily, The jail motif autoguy jokes about in that pic 'Dinosaur' was pretty much what this place was about. I've wondered about the emergency plans in such situations but never found out the actual procedures in whatever evac plan was made. I expect they relied more on design and procedure to prevent emergency than they did on planning to get out in case of.

It's about money and who can grab what, which is the common theme, absolutley. Great aerials on bing maps. Surrounded by solid residential development, this property should yield some lucrative profits when finally shuffled to developers.

And does it light a pipe? Or do I have to roll a joynt?

I recall the same observation johnB. The examples I saw in person were as you describe. The ad I have for them was in a late 1940s Motor Age magazine, which was a trade publication for service stations. That ad was the only place I've seen them, and I was quite surprised to some in service in the early 90s. The units in the ad were free standing, but no instructions or illustrations for use were included. :oD

I agree with autoguy, it's all politics, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

dead-bolting people in a room from the outside seems a bit dangerous, what if there was a fire and everyone runs off the floor forgetting these poor people who had the door bolted shut?