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Wow
what a great shot! I love your staircase shots! This one is really really exceptional. great colors too!

With all the fungi around it, it's not really a lonely chair, is it??

In physical therapy we call it a tilt table. The patient is supine and strapped in. We turn a crank (or its electric) and the table begins to "tilt" upward towards a standing position. It is a good way for those with low blood pressure and other problems to gradually get used to being upright rather than stand them up all at once. I used one the other day with an amputee with low blood pressure. He only got to about 65 degrees. The straps are merely for the patients comfort so that he/she doesn't slide sown or wieght bear too much all at once when we are cranking them to a stand.

A study in black and white, outstanding.

Very claustrophobic to me -- and with the wire screen across the windows -- cool bed, though, with rollers.

Well, good evening, Scarlett -- Gone With The Wind is on TV as we speak!!

I do love these doors -- they look like solid oak.

It might be an intercom.

Janice, coincidently enough, my Dad is from upstate New York (Auburn)

Yes Suffer the Children was Pennhurst.Its funny I remember watching that when it first appeared on the news and thinking who in their right mind would ever work there? And a few years later their I was. In some respects it was the best place I ever worked and also the worst.

This reminds me of that creepy dream sequence on the t.v. series "Twin Peaks."
Where a dwarf(?) was dancing and speaking backwards to Agent Cooper and Laura Palmer.
Odd how the chairs are arranged. Looks like the table didn't want to be in their company ,so it just walked away.

The main reason I chose 3rd shift was there was less supervisory staff breathing down your neck. It got very bad for staff in the closing years. You could not believe the things you could be written up for. Thank god for the union we had . That was the only protection we had.

Just a guess here... Isn't Pennhurst the institute featured in "Suffer the Children"? I can't remember now... If people were to watch that, without really paying attention, they would assume that the things that happened here were the fault of the staff. Or, if they heard about it second hand, but didn't see it themselves, again it was the staff... What they don't realize is that all throughout that documentary, everyone (including, refreshingly, the newscaster himself) pointed out that it wasn't the fault of the staff, it was lack of funding!

WAWAWAWAWA!!!!! 8`-)

Yeah, one day we'll have to tell them we really WERE murdering bastards after all, huh? 8`-)

These people scare me, Marcia. They want blood and guts to clear up the guilt they seem to feel for their people not voting to give money to take care of the people you and I actually took physical care of. Funny world, huh?

Makes ya feel kinda like the witches on trial in Salem musta felt. Whatever evidence is brought up they use it against you - same evidence, different interpretation. Throw 'em in the river - if they don't drown, they are witches and need to be burned. If they drown, oops! They musta not been witches after all! Our bad!

Sounds like a routine night that I had at Pennhurst, Lynn. That is when I wasn't beating and maiming my charges.

We wish there were more like you. It's not fair when the good ones get tarred with the same brush that the destructive ones do, is it?