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Addicted: Yes now that you mention it, the walls DO look wonky!

Lynne honey thank you once again for some terrific links! I particularly love the second last one.....I want to live in that big old "house" with the turrets. And make sure that lovely big ol' fireplace is in there too. :-)

The little covered attire on top of the building was where the alarm that one could hear all over the city. It was like two long, one short, one long, would give you where the emergency was taking place. It could have been a fire, someone who couldn't be controlled. We employees carried a little care that gave us the location where the emergency was taking place and that all personell was duty bound to show up at that building whether one was working or you were at home and heard where the emergency was taking place.

Lynn, Im sure most of them where looking for human contact.......just not the kind thats usually appreciated.

Im thinking that at the time these buildings where built, they used what they thought *appropriate* at the time. It all had to start somewhere . Think about it, if you where working with patients that where deemed criminally insane, you would need some kind of protection between yourself and the clients you where taking care of. And since like Lynn said, this was the days before plexi-glass..........so its going to be mesh.............TAA DAA.....my deep thought for today........ 8-)

Some of the nursing homes I worked in didnt have bathrooms in the patients rooms either. It was extremely fun trying to carry a steaming bedpan down the hallway and not spill it on yourself. ;-~

Staycee,
I could have worded that better, if there is something in these institutions that you don't understand, just ask lynne about it, if she dosn't have the answe she can find it.
If you get the chance, go back and read some of her past comments ( just click on her name in the comments and you can read the ones she posted )

Yea, there's nothing like a cozy fireplace

I lived in brentwood for 30 years. In 1979 I had a friend visit me from Detroit. I drove her to see this place and we got lost driving around. During one of those going in circle moments, a 350 african american nurse stuck her head out and screamed that we were going the wrong way. It took an hour to find our way out and I was a wreck but Ellen from Detroit loved every second of it.

Motts - did it look like the fireplace had ever actually been used before?

~Me - great references for marble and granite - thanks!

Tiley - yes, I love ceramic tile. I believe it was around the Victorian and Edwardian eras when they were using it a lot in home architecture, wasn't it? I have some great old tile pix in a vintage magazine I lent to a friend at work. GREAT stuff. This particular fireplace puts me in mind of majolica tiles.
http://www.tile-heaven.co.uk/majolica-01.htm

psychadellic one - plenty of room, plenty of room!

Anyways, you aren't locked in a room without a bathroom unless you are in isolation for violent behavior, and even then, they have to give you a bathroom break. This is just an old patient bedroom that was small, like most rooms were at the time. Very few rooms then, including rooms in community homes, had bathrooms attached.

However, I am guessing that if every room had a bathroom, people would think that was weird too.

Sometimes, you're darned if you do and danged if you don't. :-)

Aw, I like Staycee! :-)

The Little Kitty Cat

Staycee,
Lynne has been working with the mentally impared for years and isn't shy about tearing people apart, try not to provoke her.

Jim H, that is great!

Looks like they took out the altar too.

Yeah..the sad part is that it seem as though the rooms here were definately for "client" storage.

Most people in the community aren't usually locked in their bedrooms either...