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Drawn Shade

Drawn Shade

The contraptions back there are like walkers with wheels and a toilet seat in the center.
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just a shot of the shade alone would be great too...
garth
Thu 02-24-2005
they are commodes, i still cant figure out where you would need to wheel off to while your using one though
anna
Tue 03-08-2005
Ah, that's what they're called. I suppose they doubled as wheelchairs.
Motts
Tue 03-08-2005
These are also used in homes & nursing homes ( etc ) though they have been updated very slightly over the years . Respectfully... I've yet to hear of one doubling as a wheelchair.

They're not for wheeling a patient off in... they're for wheeling TO a patient who has a hard time getting around.
LEE
Sun 04-17-2005
LEE, I was trying to be funny, in the hospital, we use them to wheel patients to the shower.
anna
Mon 04-18-2005
they're called "shower chairs" and are still very much in use everywhere
MS Nursey Nurse
Tue 04-19-2005
I bet as you walk through that maze of peeling paint, plaster, broken glass and who-knows-what, it crackles beneath your feet.
Puddleboy
Wed 11-02-2005
Ahh the last act of privacy.
RB Vannacutt
Wed 01-11-2006
I have never hear of a bedside commode doubling as a wheel chair, I worked in a nursing home, and for safety, non of them had wheels.
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Sun 02-19-2006
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Lynne
Sun 02-19-2006
Is that an old building out the window? Or just rotting curtains? Or what? I can't really tell for sure. I notice that as I go through all these galleries (and happily I have a long way to go yet) my favorite theme is what is outside the windows of interior shots (the view, basically). Some of those details, enlarged, would be beautiful photographs in their own right.
isabeats
Tue 05-16-2006
Just want to thank you, Motts, for "capturing" all these images on film; for someday they will no longer be there to see.
Nancy
Tue 06-06-2006
haha my gandmother uses one of those
mikeymisery
Tue 09-05-2006
i've been there
Natasha
Thu 05-20-2010
Is pennhurst posted? Can anyone go visite it? I want to go so bad and get some shots!
Sharpshooter
Mon 10-11-2010
Kudos to you! I hadn't tohghut of that!
Indian
Sat 06-18-2011

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