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eldokid@aol.com

Possibly that poor cat a few shots back got ahold of one of those rats and ate it - I'm often amazed at how medical practice has progressed over the years . . . LOVE this web site - I can't get away from it!!

Location: Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Creep

Water Pressure

eldokid@aol.com

My sister had a hairdryer that looked like that

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Scientific Apparatus

eldokid@aol.com

I could make chicken soup in that thing

Location: Kingsley Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Faded Memories

Patient Belongings

eldokid@aol.com

This would be all too tempting to sit down and go through this stuff. Being the pack rat I am, I would probably be stuffing what I could in my car. Very very sad but it's a fact of life. I had a job where I would type up estate appraisals after someone died and all I could think of was 'this is what life is about"? You live, accumulate things, then croak and then some stranger goes through your stuff and says this is worth $2, this is worth $5. We should have more respect for the dead.

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

Grossing Table

eldokid@aol.com

Would make a nice buffet table

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

Piano

eldokid@aol.com

The reason these are left behind I believe is because they weigh a TON and trying to find someone to move them is a bitch. They cost a lot to buy but try and sell one. I had a 1910 Francis Bacon upright grand player piano that was in fantastic shape and everyone loved. But it weighed 1,000 pounds. I could not sell it or get someone to move it. One guy offered to charge me only $50 and he would "take it away". I ended up leaving it when I moved which broke my heart because it was a beautiful instrument. My father had several of these organs in his life and he always had the same problem. He paid a lot out for them, but then got stuck in the end.

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

Florid Doors

eldokid@aol.com

WHAT A PLACE TO HAVE A FIT!!

Location: Severalls Hospital  Gallery: The Beginning of the End

Paperwork Crypt

eldokid@aol.com

That happened to me. When my "Pain Management" doctors office closed, they were boxing up files left and right. I demanded mine and they said "no, they're going into storage"...THIS is probably what they meant. In a box to sit for decades and rot. Needless to say after some screaming, yelling and threatening, I got my files but I felt bad for all the older people whose lives were going to end up in a box somewhere. Very sad (but definitely interesting)

Location: Mesa State Training School  Gallery: Recovery

Meters

eldokid@aol.com

Looks like the dial on my toaster!! I must say, I just recently discovered this site last week and haven't been able to tear myself away. Each chance I get, i look through and am in awe of the photographs. I would LOVE to do this, it's like a dream of mine. Keep up the good work.

Location: Glenwood Power Plant  Gallery: Industrial Strength

Foot of the Coffin

eldokid@aol.com

People should let sleeping coffins lie -

Location: Northwood Asylum  Gallery: Silence

Tunnel Chair

eldokid@aol.com

anyone ever see "The Changling"? This looks like their promotional poster! COOL

Location: Isolation Hospital  Gallery: Flooded

Caution Tape

eldokid@aol.com

looks like the last thing you'd see before sitting in the electric chair

Location: Eagle River Power Station  Gallery: Corrosive Industry

Rusted Ventricles

eldokid@aol.com

It's a Hamilton Beach malted milk shake maker knocked over on it's side!!

Location: Eagle River Power Station  Gallery: Corrosive Industry

Repeat

eldokid@aol.com

Those tubes near the ceiling remind me of the pheumatic tube system we had at an old department store I worked at as a kid. You'd put money and the receipt in a "transporter", flip open the end cover and put it in the tube to be sucked up to the third floor cashier department. Cool technology, too bad it's not used any more.

Location: Eagle River Power Station  Gallery: Corrosive Industry

Barrel

eldokid@aol.com

It's the back of a clothes dryer in the laundromat of hell

Location: Eagle River Power Station  Gallery: Corrosive Industry

Control Room

eldokid@aol.com

Pre UNIVAC days obviously - - and I agree, very very tempting. Would love to poke around in here.

Location: Eagle River Power Station  Gallery: Corrosive Industry

Battery Backup

eldokid@aol.com

Where old car batteries go to die -

Location: Eagle River Power Station  Gallery: Corrosive Industry

Throw the Switch!

eldokid@aol.com

I agree, don't change a thing! Those cylindrical fuses are 100 amp and very scary. I recall at a place I worked at we actually blew a few of them and I was 'elected' to change them only because no one else had the nerve. They were of course, in a dark, damp basement filled with old equipment that I would later have the honor of cleaning out. (most of it came home!)

Location: Eagle River Power Station  Gallery: Corrosive Industry

Walk

eldokid@aol.com

Can you imagine the sound these machines must have put out? And back then I doubt they wore any ear protection - - beautiful pictures, they really make you think and wonder about life

Location: Eagle River Power Station  Gallery: Corrosive Industry