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The large airy rooms full of windows were typical of a TB hospital.
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Deat? What's that supposed to mean... Oh, wait, Death? :D Were all the windows broken out like this?
Dr Sketch
Thu 01-19-2006
Pretty much...you could start tripping over all the rocks in some rooms from people throwing them through.
Motts
Thu 01-19-2006
Was that little asshat buddy of ours there already? >:-(
Lynne
Thu 01-19-2006
Motts, are those some kind of wooden crates or platforms in the foreground?
Jude
Thu 01-19-2006
Everyone together:

"It's Lynne's soapbox!"
Lynne
Thu 01-19-2006
"Everyone! GATHER!"

[stares intensely...soaking up everything that now within grasp...touches soapbox...awe...]
Bri
Thu 01-19-2006
Somehow appropriate that Lynn's Soapbox would have the word "Death" scrawled on it in spraypaint ... or .... /is/ that spraypaint. Somebody call forensics!
Serrena
Thu 01-19-2006
*reaches up from beneath her Mistress' desk to touch the soapbox on the screen* Oooohhhhh...
Lyric
Thu 01-19-2006
Lynne, speech please :-) We are still using beds that old in my facility. Soapbox time!!
awyper
Fri 01-20-2006
Hahaha now I'm seeing things...but look towards the middle of the picture, and to the left of "death" on the "soapbox" its looks like someone's name...and it looked to me like Andrew.... =-o
Barbara
Fri 01-20-2006
Wholly Cow! I think you're right, Barbara! ROFLMBO! [deep breaths...] Nice observation!
Bri
Fri 01-20-2006
Boy, my eyes (all 3) are bad.
awyper
Fri 01-20-2006
=8-o
Lynne
Fri 01-20-2006
....yep, I just HAD to ask, didn't I?
Jude
Fri 01-20-2006
Thats it, I'm taking everyone's fingerprints!
silkster40z
Mon 01-23-2006
You all are funny!

I love this shot - I can almost feel the empty, cool air and the musty "old" smell in this room.
Michele
Thu 02-02-2006
Ummm . . . why do all these pics look so . . . disorganized?
Salmonella
Sat 02-04-2006
Salmonella,
Disorganized? hmmmm They look organized to me.... lol, but, perhaps I need to up the dose lol
silkster40z
Sun 02-05-2006
I think it says "anne" or "angie".hmmmm
Mollie
Fri 02-10-2006
the Soapboxes are the backsides of overturned lockers. Vandals, Goths, Visigoths and an occaisional Hun have run rampant through this gorgeous old building. Too bad we can't shoot 'em. I do know some of the cooler stories from this place...
GRampie
Mon 06-05-2006
Cooler stories? Care to share?
moviemjk102
Fri 06-09-2006
When the county was using the basement room for a communications center, one of my buddies was a radio operator. They worked shifts alone in the building. He saw shadows and movement and heard lots of voices from the hallways.
GRampie
Tue 06-20-2006
eerie.... such an amazing place...
moviemjk102
Tue 06-27-2006
I'm sure that all the windows being broken out, or otherwise missing certainly added to the airyness :)
Big ED
Tue 06-27-2006
Large airy rooms where thought to benefit the patient by letting them enjoy the air outside rather than the contaminated air on the inside. Though this was proven to be false and many patients died, the practice of this technique survived, and is still being used today.
Xander
Sun 07-30-2006
Xander, are you saying that patients are being killed by fresh air in large rooms?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pah hahahahaha! I'm cornfused! Where has Lynnie gone?
Sian
Mon 07-31-2006
The fresh air did them no harm. It was the time in the sun that did them the most good. Sunlight helps with vitamin D production ,and stimulates bone repair. TB attacks the bones as well in some cases. Plus the fresh air encourage the people to breathe deeply and expand thier lungs.
Big ED
Fri 08-25-2006
ill...it looks like the place is haunted
sexy flaca
Tue 10-10-2006
So sad, so forlorn, so hopeless...
Dixinites
Thu 12-14-2006
I swear I dreamt about this place before... Wow.. =D
Piano_Angel
Sun 04-22-2007
Since I live in an apartment where the living room is the largest out of the four rooms but has absolutely no windows in it, this kind of room would be MORE than welcoming to me!
CataclysmicStar
Mon 04-28-2008
I think that word says Angus. Can't be sure though, my eyes are bad too :)
Catharine
Wed 07-29-2009

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