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Stairwell Light

Stairwell Light

These strangely shaped lights were scattered throughout this wing.
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They appear to be fastened BOTH to the wall -and- the ceiling! Real '40s industrial tech design though...
Mnementh
Sun 06-19-2005
Looks like they didn't want anyone swinging from those fixtures! Gotta love the "backup" light underneath it!
AutumnTwin@aol.com
Fri 07-15-2005
Light fixture above, soap dispenser below.
Twug
Sat 10-22-2005
Twug!

I love you! I was thinking the SAME thing!
~Me
Sat 10-22-2005
Hey ~Me, love you too. But don't y'all think it's really weird to have a soap dispenser in a stairwell?!
Twug
Sat 10-22-2005
Thats not a soap dispenser look off to the right there is a pipelike wire running horizonally then it goes down vertically.
RBVannacutt
Tue 12-20-2005
RBV, the soap dispenser comments are a running joke on opacity.
psycadellic one
Tue 12-20-2005
Ahhh... well I'm a newbie here. So forgive me. lol
RBVannacutt
Wed 12-21-2005
The lower light was added later. Notice that the wire is run on the outside of the wall.
Daniel
Sat 10-14-2006
We find soap dispensers in the oddest places...
GirlJaye
Wed 12-20-2006
The perspective threw me at first, I couldn't figure out why there was a soap dispenser and whatever else that was sticking up out of the floor.
Transcendental Medication
Wed 02-07-2007
"The lower light was added later. Notice that the wire is run on the outside of the wall."

I would agree Daniel. Maybe not a lot later, but it wasn't installed with the first one. I'm thinking they installed it after a dark spot showed up-maybe somebody fell or even got attacked by an inmate.
Scout
Sat 04-21-2007
Maybe they installed it because the florescent light kept flickering. (or maybe I watch too many horror movies) ;-p
Heather
Sat 10-06-2007
I dont get it
Conor
Wed 04-09-2008
Wow, another "Neat old light" soap dispenser! Wonderful perspective.
Jack_
Thu 08-14-2008
Maybe the lower one is an emergency light that comes on in the event of a power outage? Or it could be a soap dispenser--you know how many germs there are from all those hands touching the railing.
dme
Thu 10-30-2008
Those (that) is a strange looking light shape(s)
Cyrus 28m
Sun 10-11-2009
I think the top large item is not a light but is a heater, similar to those one sees at skating arenas. The smaller item below is a light.
BKW Ontario
Thu 06-10-2010
electricians call the lower light a "jelly jar". they make great drinking glasses when your poor.
Glenn Mainz
Mon 09-13-2010
drinking glasses or soap dispensers?
ginberry
Wed 09-22-2010
There is something unsetteling about this photo.
C. Murray
Sun 12-12-2010
Im not sure i understand the whole tiny light down below.....the big one seems like it would have overpowered the smaller one anyways.....hmph....
Samm
Thu 08-25-2011
My guess in the lower light wwas installed soemtime in the 1970's since I have two just like it on my house which was built in 1978.
greenskulker
Wed 08-31-2011

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