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looks like a coffee grinder on steroids

The top row of doors are just to access the refrigeration machinery.

This building was last used as part of the Staunton Correctional Center, when they re-purposed the old psych hospital into a prison.

Guessing it was for violent patients.

That tubing is probably steel.
Sumac might be the most common and fertile tree in America. Every open space in the right climate seems to get one within a couple years or becoming open.

Remember the old commercial?
Hot dogs, Armour Hot Dogs
What kinds of kids eat Armour Hot Dogs?
Big kids, little kids, kids who climb on rocks
fat kids, skinny kids, even kids with chicken pox
love hot dogs, Armour Dot Dogs
The dogs kids love to bite!

The conditions in meat packing plants of Chicago and the midwest in the early 20th Century are the reason for Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" his intent being to expose the harsh conditions the workers were subjected to but the public focused on the sanitary practices or lack thereof "Upton Sinclair intended to expose "the inferno of exploitation [of the typical American factory worker at the turn of the 20th Century]", but the reading public fixed on food safety as the novel's most pressing issue. Sinclair admitted his celebrity arose "not because the public cared anything about the workers, but simply because the public did not want to eat tubercular beef" https://en.wikipedia.o..._Jungle#Plot_summary
It lead to the creation of the agency which is now called the FDA and still much was covered up.

There are no words...just "WOW"

Breath-taking

WOw! what a great close-up! Reminds me of the old Singer Sewing machines and the detailing you would always see on them. :)

This IS one Lovely piece of Machinery...As well as an awesome photo!

Mr. Mott's, Thank You very much!

Apparently I'm the only one on the planet who likes "old hospital jade" tiles! They're not boringly beige. They look great with bright colors...

That's beautiful

That's documenting abnormal posturing. You highlight the muscles involved by shining a light on (usually just turning a desk lamp toward the resident), which is causing the 'red' shadows under her hands and feet--see the extra-dark shadows in front of her body?--she's just spotlighted.

The white stuff is probably just damage to the picture.

can you imagine getting your shirt sleeve caught on one of these machines?