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Were there chairs nearby?
So the puzzle people could sit?

That''s sick.
But it IS a great shot!!!!

My guess is this room was where the speech and language pathologist worked and these were items used to help students understand certain phonetic sounds and then matching the sound with the "dipthongs!" (fox trot)
They probably used these as a game. possibly to match the sound to the pic, you know simple stuff like that...... pic of cow and the sound "ou" idk...

Some of these items look much older than 70s...no?

I just recently located this site and have thoroughly enjoyed the creativity that is put into each photograph. Excellent work, wish I could join you on some of these jaunts. ;-)

.......yea but who put it together? It couldn't have been a kid from back then could it?

Is that some sort of poo on the top step?

I had one of those used on my lungs before, or should I say "lung"....I don't remember it looking like that though...

whoa.....naz-teh!

Man! I wish you would have taken a pic of the inside!!

*ROFLMAO* "Mr Allcaps"....

The Castle of Terror opened in 1963. It was designed by Bill Tracy of Cape May, NJ -- a prolific dark ride designer who also designed Crescent Park's Riverboat.. The viking was actually inside the first two years. He was at the end of a narrow passgeway near the conclusion of the ride. The car made contact with him as it passed. (actually the base he was mounted on). The ride was renamed House of Horrors in the 1970s. and the sign came from another dark ride down the midway that ran from 1948 to 1963. Trimper's Haunted House, also designed by Tracy, has some of the same figures including the woman being sliced on a table saw. They were all made from the same molds. See this article and see if you can ID some of the fiigures. The Trimpers' ride opened in 1962: http://www.laffintheda...es/trimpers/thh1.htm

It looks like the back drop is of a palm tree or beach scene maybe?

Tony C. beat me to it. When I saw that smilie I thought "Walmart is already eyeballing the place for a new store".

The temperature gauges make me think it might have been a hydrotherapy room. Hydrotherapy, or hydropathy, became very popular in spas during the eighteenth century as a voluntary medical treatment, and the temperature of the water was an important part of the cure. People might take hot or cold baths, get sprayed with water, or allow themselves to be wrapped in wet sheets as cures for different illnesses. What is chilling is that in mental health treatment, these cures were used involuntarily. I wonder if the photographer saw another room with several bathtubs? A popular treatment for manic or psychotic people was to wrap them in canvas and put them in a tub of tepid water for eight hours, every day for several days. Depressed people got sprayed with hot water.