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!!

My sister had a hairdryer that looked like that

I could make chicken soup in that thing

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.

Would make a nice buffet table

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.

WHAT A PLACE TO HAVE A FIT!!

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)

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.

People should let sleeping coffins lie -

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Where old car batteries go to die -

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!)

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