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What a beautiful design!
I wonder what the images were in the stained glass.

So beautiful! I would love to have this room!
It would have been beautiful to have an artist use those two sections where the arches are and paint a scene in each of them from the floor all the way to the top of the arch. Art like Pre-Raphaelite or Alphonse Mucha. I would line the rest of the walls floor to ceiling with bookcases.
Of course you'd need a tall ladder on wheels to reach them.
This room reminds me of the Disney cartoon, "Beauty and the Beast" when Belle first walks into his library and falls in love when she sees bookshelves from the floor to ceiling filled with books.

They're too low to be cribs, if anything to do with babies they would be playpens.

I think they're crates, too, but are you sure those aren't cribs (probably not because they look so old and the place was operating in 1994)?

Many of these big adult institutions had nurseries, most of which were just to care for patient's babies before shipping them out for adoption, others were viewed as a means of therapy. (Believe it or not, caring for unwanted babies has been found to do wonders for both institutionalized mentally retarded women and for the children themselves).

How 'bout this, then?
http://www.twentytwentyone.com/images/Takealine_230.jpg

Makes you wonder if some poor patient who was experiencing delusional issues might have thought those WERE eyes staring at him/her all day long.

Motts, these places must be even more creepified when there are vicious storms raging outside (even when they were operational)....did you ride out the storm here?

That's a pretty rudimentary wing chair...it does look alien-like.

Or he could have just meant spirits

They look like they're a bit high up when they WERE used as observation windows, too.

Motts, what does the title mean?

Do you mean "der Geist der stets ver·neint ?" (the spirit that ever denies)?

Hi Guys - no, that's not crazy at all. In 1968 I was a first year student at Harvard Business School when the owner of the Kansas City based Faultless Starch Co., Gordon T. Beham III (also a Harvard MBA) decided do do something about racial tensions in his city. His idea was to start up a studio and recruit blacks on the other side of Troost Street - this all out of a series of meetings he'd had with SRA consultants from Palo Alto - he was really concerned about the subject. At any rate, I grabbed a Black classmate, George Price and a Hispanic classmate Rafael Labrador and we went for the job, and got it. First we built the studio, and then I changed the name from "Ghetto Cartoons" to "Black Light". They had the nutty idea you could do a Budd Schulberg writing project, pull in guys off the street, but you really can't say "do a character" or "do a story" like assembling a lawn mower. As it turned out Ed Carr and Louis Slaughter were not exactly your average guys, they were pretty talented, and they took the beginnings of a strip I had started as a seed called "Uncle Jubb" - there was always a practical lesson - and turned it into "Butter and Boop" - they even got a Calvert "Men of Distinction" award ...

But. this white boy of 22 with a Harvard degree came up with the name, the concept, and actually helped build the little studio -

Well, Well , Well ... I never knew they did that one, and I was just Googling the name to see - thanks for the memories.

Oh - me? Go to McKinneyLibrary.org or ThinkAboutIt.org or just drop Laurence McKinney into Google or Google Image.

It looks like the pant leg presses we used at the last dry cleaner I worked at. We also had machines that looked similar to this to press the shirts.

such a shame to see this gallery end it was very interesting. Thanks Motts some great pictures there!

It is most definitely an autopsy table, the metal underneath the grill funnels into the center drain that runs through the hydraulic piece. From my experience, this is one of two autopsy table models that are quite common in US hospitals.