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Incredible, just in-freakin'-credible!!

The place seems to be in excellent shape.

Re: Old medical equipment, someone has mentioned elsewhere that removing some of this stuff will cost more than any resale value.

Kadee is right. I've never seen balusters like that. The detail, design and craftmanship are outstanding!

The filtering makes the foliage look fake. Incredible effect.

Talk about off-kilter... anything that off balance belongs in a mental institution~!

Great shot! :O

Most likely this was used for water distillation. Water is heated up, changed to vapor which then exits the container through the smaller output tube on the top - the water vapor then recondenses back to a liquid in a purer form in another collecting container. Impurities whose melting/vaporization point is much higher than water is left behind in the container with the heating coil.

This process can be used to separate any two liquids capable of existing as a gas at sufficiently different boiling points.

i.e. If liquid A becomes a gas at 120F and Liquid B becomes a gas 212F and the two are mixed together in one container they can be separated again by heating the container up to 150F. Liquid A will become a gas while liquid B will remain a liquid. The gas can then be collected and cooled back to its lquid form.

There are some corollary rules depending on the composition of the substances being distilled. (Some substances may actually break down when they are heated so that they never regain their original liquid form during condensation). This is particularly true of liquids made up of several different substances all of which may have differing boiling points.

In most environments this is done to purify water. However, in a medical environment perhaps they were actually interested in the substances left behind from distillation.

Sodium or other minerals from urine for analysis perhaps? An early way to identify calcium oxalate? - The last is speculation on my part. Lynne...opinions??

I like the photos, but...without the wings they had been even better. Just the white dress and the girl, Voila!

Man if I could carry that out I would...the things I would do to just play that!

hold on "bums" sleep in glendale!? they got some balls

It is an ethical thing.

My sister was born with cancer (Neruoblastoma) and that bent her spine Scholiosis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoliosis ).

For years she had to wear a modern equivalent of that body brace and has a much straighter back now because of it.

Unfortunately, the only permanent treatment is spinal fusion to correct the curve.

Sweeeet!

chris - currently I use a Canon 5D with a Sigma 12-24, Canon 24-70L, and a Canon 75-300, with 6 gigs of memory.

Yup, it's the tallest section in the foreground. I realized I didn't look for a way up there until I left!

I wasn't in all the buildings, but most seemed really cleaned out and void of everything save for a few tools.