462 Comments for Sanitarium Joseph Lemaire

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not enough soap dispensers

Does anybody else see the eye of a creature looking through?

This was an aquarium - the broken windows let all the water out LOL

This pic makes me think of teeth - giant dinosaur ones!

O2 is the molecular formula for oxygen...and yes this is a valve for it

By the way...

1 month ago we visit the sanatorium. The blue shatters all smashed... :-(

I hope this plan can help. The room with the blue windows is 100% the operating room. ;-)

Look here:

http://www.bilder-hoch...les/41rl-a8-jpg.html

amazing photo =)

not often you're in your own photos

what i wanna know is..yeah people graffiti places like this
but why in such stupid pointless spots?

Hm, it is definitely a possibility that I was on the first floor, but unfortunately I cannot remember that detail. I do remember starting from the top and working my way down to the ground floor, and with this being near the end of the set it's definitely a possibility it was at the bottom.

The operating room seems to have been moved from its original location according to this photo - http://www.flickr.com/...5049/in/set-1523567/ so perhaps the extent of renovations was warranted to convert the space into something different...

Andy - You provided some beautiful pictures, but one of the exterior ones you linked to shows a first-story room that has windows segmented in the same way this one is. Also, judging from the interior pictures of the operating room that were provided, the layout of the lower half of the wall and the radiators is similar, but they do not exactly match the earlier pictures of the operating room (and I assume that since the original radiators are still in place, there were no huge changes made in this room). Finally, take into account the fact that the trees outside the window, while admittedly not clearly visible, seem to be quite tall from this perspective ... And I'm willing to bet that Motts was actually in the first-story room shown just below the operating room.

Check out the exterior shot that Andy provided to see how the windows compare.

http://www.bilder-hoch...s/41rl-y-jpg-nb.html

It would have been incredibly difficult - if not far too expensive - to put in new crank-open windows where the old single-panel windows had been; never mind the amount you would pay to have them constructed and installed in the first place. Since there are crank windows, my guess is that this was some sort of day room - or, perhaps, a waiting room for any present family (you never know!) for patients in the operating room on the floor above.

I must wonder, now: Motts, were you on the first or second story for this picture? That would certainly erase all doubt.

Another fantastic set of photos Mr Motts.

i love the before and after photos, really tells a story!

it was beautiful once upon a time!