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That is one amazing spiral staircase! I imagine would would get dizzy going down that more than a few times a day!

Wow- that is pretty cool.

It's an O2 tank, and an old one, to boot. We now have plastic lever's ("keys" we call them in the ER) to switch the top of the tank to "open" the O2, so to speak.

Fantastic shot!

Looks like a photo of post WWII Europe to me.

Wasting equipment like this? This must be NC.

It does look retro, doesn't it?? Very nice photo.

What a striking picture!! Motts, you certainly have quite an good eye.

Were they trying to build a magnetic resonance imaging machine? Only thing I can think of.

As a physical therapist, I used this type of tank in the early part of my career for large people with multiple wounds. The whole process of filling the (Hubbard) tank, putting the patient in it, whirlpooling for 20 min, taking them out, dressing the wounds, and transporting the patient back to their room and transferring them back to bed (whew!) took around two hours with only about half of that time as billable time. Some of these patients were twice a day! Egads! I've not used this type of tank in at least ten years. Not efficient enough for the ins companies.
Love this website, by the way!

I bet it was fun rolling that tire down the stairs ;-)

The place was only slightly less decrepit when it was open.. Just a ot more plaster and stuff on the floor now. Were It still there,of course

Um...I tend to agree that the "lazy, fat-assed nurses" comment was un-called for. I've worked in healthcare for 20 years. There are NO piece-of-cake jobs in nursing. Just surviving the stress of making life and death decisions is a job in itself. Anything to help make healthcare workers jobs easier is OK in my book.

Oh, those poor soap dispensers.....

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