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Amazing!

What a hauntingly beautiful shot!

great shot

Perhaps a "Gimp" is in there with a rubber ball in his mouth?

"Bring out the Gimp!"

great, new gallery! I know this is going to be awesome

Vegas Baby !!!

We had those EXACT SAME clocks in one of my middle schools and in my junior high school in Illinois. That is funny.

Beautiful doors, absolutely gorgeous. A pity they were taken, since it was probably done by a private collector (or a total jerk) and I doubt they'll be seen again.

it`s agreat !!

Most are torn down but many are re-used, such as this building, for residential and commercial space.

Vaults like these can become quite crowded after a disaster or outbreak of deadly disease in a populated city.

The columns are to die for. . . Are the building you visit ever salvaged? Or just torn down?

Horrible that such beautiful architecture is left to crumble. People have such little respect for the past when there is supposedly more money to be made in the future...

I wish I had been old enough to appreciate the city's original brick hospital, St. Mary's, before the brick structure was torn down to put in a basketball court. I now live across the street from where that old building stood, and I have little to no information about it. I believe it was opened in 1861, served through the Civil War, and was state-of-the-art until additions were built behind and around it in the 50s and 60s. In the 70s, a new hospital - Blessing - was constructed just a few blocks west, also on the main road, and by the 80s they were the leading hospital in the area with a large bed count and many talented doctors and nurses there. In the early to mid 90s, Blessing bought out the then-emptied St. Mary's building, tore down one of the two original brick structures (the other, assumedly a small laundry or power facility with an awesome smokestack, is still standing and I can see it out of my bedroom window), and emptied out the St. Mary's building. The 50s building is now used mostly for outpatient treatment, a few offices, the hospital employee's apparel shop, and on the top floor there is the psychiatric ward (lovingly called 6th floor) so that they could keep their psychiatric patients in a separate building from their other paying patients in the Blessing building. I believe that most of the floors are now abandoned, and my husband has not-so-fond memories of going up alone to clean a couple of the floors. He said it was creepy being alone up there, and the colors and architecture was most obviously from the 50s or so.

If that fridge (or ice-box) truly is from the 60s - 70s, I'm impressed. My mom's fridge is a mostly-functioning one from the 70s with the freezer on top. It's an awful reddish-orange (almost rust) color, is maybe 5'9" tall (about my height), and while the icemaker doesn't work as well as it used to and the water dispenser in the fridge no longer works at all, it's still functioning. I doubt, however, that it would be sold as an antique. Past the obviously horrible color, my mother's fridge looks NOTHING like this one - granted, this would have been medical-grade, unlike Mom's.

My husband had to have a TB test both when he started working at a nursing home, and then when he started working at the local hospital. Luckily he never had a positive reaction to the stuff!

This person, it seems, was lucky too - I bet they sighed in relief.