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Caged

Steel cages over the radiators kept patients from hurting themselves on these.
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only certain wards got the luxury of safety, i guess. hah. i'm sounding redundant... but these shots are all gorgeous.
kae
Wed 08-10-2005
Maybe it was there to keep the radiator from escaping.
random
Sun 08-21-2005
wow they even had the radiator on lock down.
maria
Tue 09-06-2005
all was lost but the radiator was saved!!!
rtotten
Sun 02-19-2006
ok the radiator's safe...
Rina
Wed 03-22-2006
Mabe the Radiator is crazy.......
jdarkqueen
Sun 05-21-2006
my be it was hot
yo moma
Fri 05-26-2006
Has anyone accidentaly sat on a radiator? Its not pleasant
Tom
Sun 06-18-2006
No, but touching one isn't pleasant, either.
Nancy
Sun 06-25-2006
wow! the Radiator is safe but not the Patients! wtf!?
Nancy<3
Sat 07-15-2006
My husband and I rent out an old two family apt house. It's almost 90 years old and has this same type of steam radiators. We had to buy covers for them for safety reasons..the covers in this pic I don't think are legal anymore. What we found out though is that to buy these radiators now, used, figure on about $15 a coil. The one in this pic is worth about $350! Can't beat the heat they put out. I'm surprised the ones here weren't all stolen already. But then again seems like only youngins been through the place
Juls
Sun 11-12-2006
Thanks for the info Juls, Im an HVAC man and didn't even know that!! Interesting
PC
Tue 05-01-2007
The house I grew up in in Olney had radiators like this but the covers were different, thankfully since these are just creepy. Nice picture.
DW
Fri 10-26-2007
Well, we can be thankful for one thing... The radiator didn't escape! Ok... Bad joke. Anyway, nice picture.
Seeker
Sun 10-28-2007
I love old radiators
Marcus
Thu 08-14-2008
it also kept them from making that homemade grilled cheese, son!!! lmao!! jk, great shot
colin
Wed 02-16-2011
@colin o my cheesus lol
Rodrigo.R
Tue 02-22-2011
haha!! sorry, i watch too many "prison" shows on MSNBC lmao
Colin
Tue 07-19-2011
Seems that the cage surrounding the radiator would have gotten pretty hot too, thus defeating the purpose LOL. I could be wrong though!
freespirit76
Tue 07-26-2011

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