pegasus64 Amen, Canada! Maybe they were put there as inspiration?

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Fall Showers

	pegasus64 The straps on the first mattress could have been used to tie the mattress down. Also, they could have run restaint straps through it?

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Fall Showers

	pegasus64 My grandma had a tufted couch like that...kinda scratchy. Definately not regulation psych furniture. I love the ratty sheers hanging on the windows.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Fall Showers

	pegasus64 They used to paint/stain around a carpet or runner to save money. In some houses, they even used to put cheaper wood in the hardwood floor where the rug went.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Fall Showers

	pegasus64 I can't believe no one has started singing "Stairway to Heaven"!

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Fall Showers

	pegasus64 I'd say it was very deco looking...although the craftsman movement used similar designs and deco used a little wilder colors.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

	pegasus64 The first thing I saw was what looks like the upper torso of a man standing with his arms folded. That just captured me!

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

	pegasus64 It is a print from Home Interiors, I believe. I just can't remember if it was in the plastic shiney "brass" frame, the white fake wood frame, or the tan fake bamboo frame...

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

	pegasus64 What room...what room????

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

	pegasus64 That is nice...but what it that fearsome creature towards the bottom of the picture?

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

	pegasus64 Love the cabinetry...would put it in my kitchen in a heartbeat!

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

	pegasus64 I read a doctor story written in the late 50's or early 60's, they made reference to a bennett valve to help with breathing.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

	pegasus64 If the tubes go into the glass jar, it looks like a suction machine. Our old ones had reuseable glass jars that you suctioned gunk into...now they are disposable plastic.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

	pegasus64 Back when...mentally ill people were usually not listened to. Their complaints went unheard, and if they accused anyone of anything...well who cared...they are insane! But I believe this sign reminds nurses that they are accountable, no matter who they serve.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

	pegasus64 Usually someone that was in "seclusion" was chemically restrained if not physically restrained. For the most part...there weren't really any coherent thoughts while they were in this bed...

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

	pegasus64 Some of the new psych furniture has wooden sides, they are built in the room, and bolted to the floor on the "inside" of the wooden sides. They are then calked and sealed to floor to prevent anyone from getting any nuts, bolts, or screws out of the bed. Other of the furniture looks like the plastic kids beds and they are also sealed to the floor.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

	pegasus64 The plastic cover is so that it can be sanitized. Also, psych mattresses are covered in a tough plastic that is sealed on the sides so that they can't be ripped open and used to hurt oneself or hide contraband inside.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

pegasus64 Also, even in psych hospitals today, if a resident uses their bed to hurt themselves, they can have their mattress and bedding on the floor. They are making progress with "psych" furniture that looks less institutional, and more homelike...only with no screws, nuts, or bolts that can be taken out. Also, "psych" mattresses are all sealed with vents sewn into the seams so that the mattresses can not be torn open. It is nice to know that they are making steps to make a better environment for those with mental illness.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

	pegasus64 No...it is not the remnants of cool night air...it is the clouded spirit of souls long gone...

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

	pegasus64 Way back when, it didn't matter how much noise someone made...you were given a pill to make you sleep, a pill to wake you up, and a pill to calm you down after you woke up....

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

	pegasus64 When you see all the spray-paint and damage here makes you wonder how the Parthenon, the Pyramids, and other structures like that escaped it...

Location: Michigan Central Station  Gallery: To the Top

	pegasus64 The tapesry brick-work is amazing. Wish I could re-create it on my house!

Location: Michigan Central Station  Gallery: To the Top

	pegasus64 Bink...please tell my you read that somewhere. Somehow I find it disturbing that one soul could come up with something like that in a heartbeat...rofl. It is a great discourse on the history of the half-brick...

Location: Michigan Central Station  Gallery: To the Top

	pegasus64 TAG Jackieb...you're it!

Location: Michigan Central Station  Gallery: To the Top

	pegasus64 I couldn't play hide n seek here. I would be too busy standing there with my mouth hanging open staring at everything...I'd be "it" all the time!

Location: Michigan Central Station  Gallery: To the Top