Does anyone know any buildings in Washington State or Oregon. I love to explore places but am running out of places to go... If so email me at Elizabeth.Stoeckl@hotmail.com
Thanks so much!

Signs everywhere like this all look like they were written by the same person.

Well unless the people exploring this building carry chalk on them at all times, I suspect that the board was manufactured with the road/sky drawn on and the idea was to play with that scene with your car, animal, and maybe people magnets, and you could add to the background by drawing birds, exhaust smoke, bikes, etc. etc with chalk. Either that or a staff member drew the picture on with a china pencil/white pencil crayon. Those things do not easily rub off chalkboards. My school teachers had chalkboards that they drew horizontal lines across with white or blue pencilcrayon, like lined paper, as a guide for learning to print letters evenly. You could wipe off your writing after but the lines remained. However, because of the presence of the car and dog magnets, I think the image was likely manufactured on and then you could add to it, erase, and add something different.

I don't know, but unless these stairs were bolted to the wall there, I'd suspect they were moveable for access rather than therapy. Maybe a high shelf, or something the nurses or maintainence people needed to reach higher up. They just got left sitting aside in the room. Otherwise, that is an unusual physical therapy stairway.

The sense of depth in this photograph is truly wonderful. The wheelchair, columns, and debris gives it a great sense of perspective. Absolutely wonderful photograph, Motts!

you ought to sell me those tiles.

Yikes! What a scene!

Wow, when I stare at the building, the clouds play a trick on my eyes and look like the are slowly drifting. Love the open window reflecting in the water, and how the wall draws one's perspective into the building, then the building up into the sky. This is a great shot, Motts!

Or in.

Wow, I just love the colors in this photo. Very vibrant with the greens and purples.

"chuckles"
Yes. I daresay Ward 121 *IS* soiled.

I can't even wrap my head aroud this photo. The building itself looks totally computer-generated (especially with the crisp, clear architecture), and the background looks like an impressionist-style painting. Phenomenal shot, Motts.

I agree with JR's comments (god I'd love a loom, a have a friend who weaves the most beautiful scarves himself) but I also think it's worth noting that it's the stuff they left behind that makes these places interesting - if all these places were totally empty and stark inside (aside from the peeling paint) it wouldn't be nearly as interesting to explore through them, or to spend all the hours we do looking at these photos :p The stuff left behind gives us a glimpse at what these places were like during their operation. Literally a snapshot of history itself.

ROFL Keith. I find some of the soap dispenser comments to be getting quite old but that was quite unexpected :)

Maybe they were written at different times. They are obviously the same handwriting, but considering there were other messages, maybe "Enjoy Your Summer, Take Care" was written at one point (it is all the same size and written on the same slant), and then the author added the message "Goodbye, and don't speak to me, leave me alone, I want to go home" another time. The writing is smaller and on a different angle.

This photo totally trips one out. What am I seeing?! LOL

Heehee, the vine looks exhausted to me, like it just spent all year working its way to that window, and with a great heave, throws a hand inside and begins the struggle to pull itself in.

That's horrible. How hard was it to get up on the roof of this place anyways?

I know that this is a dead thread, but this photo just kills me with irony. That's some shelter to be guided to! (Especially since the wall and painted shelter sign look in such good condition, juxtaposed with the peeling-apart room) Not your typical shot, Motts, but I like it a lot!

Yeah, I'll bet those couches do NOT smell as good as they might look in this photo.

It does really have that feeling of leading you in.

That plant has a pretty unique view.

It looks as though someone crashed through the wall in an awful hurry. Superman, anyone?

This looks like a "seatbelt" that is commonly used to help residents stay in their wheelchairs if they are in danger of slipping out- it's not really a restraint, because it's not inhibiting voluntary movement- the person is simply in danger of falling out of the wheelchair, usually because of altered posture.

There was nothing "nasty" in that cabinet- just useful equipment used to care for sick people. Glycerin swabsticks are used to alleviate dry-mouth, NG tubes are used to decompress the abdomen or administer food or meds to a patient who can't eat. "All purpose catheters" are simply hollow tubes used for many different things- possibly oral/nasotracheal suctioning, irrigation, etc.