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So that's what the cute Pixar lamp's great-grandfather did for a living.

I work in the health care industry find this classic wheelchair design always fascinating. Why? Because unlike today's wheelchairs where the large wheels are in the back and small in the front causing a tip-back risk, an elderly patient/resident will not be tipping back in this thing. Of course maybe that's the reason for the newer design so the wheelchair owners have to buy anti-tip back devices.

Motts you missed the opportunity on this caption name: "Legs up"

That hexagon tile floor reminds me of the home I grew up in that was built in the early 1970s. Our bathrooms had that same floor albeit smaller sized (white in the hall/common bath, brown in the master bath). It was as ugly as it was hard to keep clean, and as a kid who had bathroom cleaning detail as a chore, it sucked. That was before 8x8" square floor tiles for bathrooms we have nowadays in new home building norm where you have far fewer grout crannies to get dirtied up.

That'd be so awesome to have in your house, I'd love to have that in mine.

Lone chair & lone lamp shot?

Chairs, bed, windows & a light, oh my.

Mica will love the light there.

Nice chapel, love the window there.

Thank you again, for a wonderful new gallery, Motts.

Thanks for the new gallery Mots! I'm excited to have the first post! Keep up the great work.

Is it my responsibility that the dead are respected? I would think that burden rests on the company that operates the cemetery, who profits from the plots rentals and burials.

If it's any consolation, the mausoleum was sealed shut shortly after these photos were taken.

Stephanie,
Dr. Burr and Peg Curtis were good family friends, and he was an orthopedic colleague of my father Dr. VanDerwerker. They put their souls into aiding the children at Newington Children's. Sad to see what time had done to the building, but this happens to us people, too. Lots of good staff had worked to make the place a useful institution, and it is good some still think fondly of it.

Grave desecration is a felony in nearly every state of the Union, and those responsible for this dereliction of their duty need to be held accountable. And with all due respect, the person running the Opacity.us website also has a duty to report the desecration to the proper authorities. The fact that the photos published were likely obtained in an illegal manner doesn’t mitigate your responsibility to make sure the dead are respected. These people are not museum exhibits for everyone’s entertainment. Opacity webmaster, do your duty and report this, if it hasn’t already been done (I write this five plus years after these were posted).

Very mixed emotions going thru these pictures. The large state hospitals were overcrowded for years. I worked for a decade at Yorkwood Center, the children's facility north of YPSI State Hospital.

The room pictured here was likely a "quiet room" or "seclusion room".
Patients who were dangerous and out of control were placed in these rooms. Not for a long time. When I started working, an hour might be needed. By the time I left, no patient was secluded without a doctor's order. Almost everyone I met or worked with had the patient's well-being in mind. And their own safety.

Most new that the overcrowding and lack of opportunity for a normal life would never permit effective treatment. It took many years to finally take the state hospitals down. Michigan was was one of a minority of states that shifted the funding for the big hospitals to community based programs. It went pretty well. Other states took that hospitals fundingn and either cut taxes or shifted it to other non-health related projects.

Wow....just wow!