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Roundabout

These revolving doors were a unique find, they seem to be rare in psychiatric hospitals.
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Whoa! That's different yes?
Weebs
Fri 09-22-2006
Nice. I like that.
Bill_Romjue
Fri 09-22-2006
Freaky !
Zebra
Fri 09-22-2006
Those doors are a hoot! You don't often see them in hospitals though.
Sian
Fri 09-22-2006
Those are the scariest looking revolving doors I've ever seen.
Navi.
Fri 09-22-2006
Nice find!
Jude
Fri 09-22-2006
very cool that it is made out of wood, do not see much of that around anymore.
rtotten
Fri 09-22-2006
Those are great. A bit creepy though, I like em.
Kadee
Fri 09-22-2006
Odd that there wouldn't even be bars of any sort in the glass. That looks like it could've been a suicide or homicide just waiting to happen.
Alex J
Fri 09-22-2006
wow, now that's creepy
-K-
Sat 09-23-2006
I have never seen revolving doors with a wood frame...that is rare!
El Bobbo
Sat 09-23-2006
Cool shot! I can't remember seeing them in an asylum before.
Long Island Irish
Sat 09-23-2006
What a find. Everything seems classier across the pond. You definatly don't see something like that in North American Hospitals...or not very much of the old ones.
Revolving doors are my enemy, anyways.
Kassie
Sat 09-23-2006
did you try and slam it? i tried to slam a revolving door once...i was there for ages....it sounds logical...if you dont think about it.
Tommeh!!!
Sat 09-23-2006
From you, Tommeh, it sounds logical to me!!
Janice
Sun 09-24-2006
heyy, almost like you could enter the asylums past by walking tru. creepy
Max
Sun 09-24-2006
It's hard to think of anything with warm colors being so creepy, but motts you mastered it.
Jo
Mon 09-25-2006
When I worked @ HUP (Hospital University of Pennsylvania) there were (and still are) this huge revolving door at the main entrance. You didnt turn the doors, they automatically turn in big slow circles - for wheelchair patients and elderly patients - I never used it, because it took forever to turn. But its beautiful, its all glass and can fit about 20 people on each side of its revolving insides.
Chrissie
Mon 09-25-2006
Wow...that is so cool!
Florida Jen
Mon 09-25-2006
I figured I'd find a picture for u all of the doors.. here is the link

http://www.uphs.upenn....s/images/hup_rav.jpg
Chrissie
Mon 09-25-2006
someone is yelling "Put ze candle back!"
Redzfan
Tue 09-26-2006
Heh heh, you got it! Young Frankenstein!!
Janice
Wed 09-27-2006
Looks like the door the Corleones shot Don Cuneo in.
Woozie
Wed 09-27-2006
"All great deeds and all great thoughts
have a ridiculous beginning.
Great works are often born on a street corner
or in a restaurant's revolving door."
-- Albert Camus

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
-- Tom Stoppard
reddll
Wed 09-27-2006
This looks like it should be out in front of a department store or a bank or something. What an interesting door.

I just couldn't imagine some poor mentally ill person getting "stuck" in one of these doors. How confusing for them. Or even scary!

I notice it is only a two "compartment" door. Most of the ones I see these days have three or four "compartments". This one would easily allow a wheelchair to fit, or other equipment.
reddll
Wed 09-27-2006
Who dares to discover what lies on the other side??
Coby
Thu 09-28-2006
Oh I am so in love! I aDORE revolving doors, we have them at work.

The new place I'm going to be working doesn't have revolving doors *most upset*
BritChick
Sun 10-01-2006
Think about this most of them knew they'd be back soon, it's a never ending circle for most.
Rachael
Thu 10-05-2006
Wow, I have never seen wooden revolving doors! That is just too cool.
Jenifersf
Sun 10-15-2006
In and around the lake...
Mountains come out of the sky and they STAND THERE!!
...sorry.
T.D.
Fri 10-27-2006
Revolving doors: Brings back memories. "ROUND ABOUT" is tthat what you people in the U.K. call them???? Is that what the Beatles were talking about in "Penny Lane"???? Never Knew.
nevermore
Sun 11-05-2006
A roundabout is a type of traffic intersection, as opposed to traffic lights. It's the most demented way of directing traffic, ever.
Felyne
Sun 11-05-2006
I hate them... I always get confused.
CAS
Sun 11-05-2006
A wonderful metaphor for the current healthcare system...
Jessica
Mon 11-06-2006
Lynne. now I'm really confused. Just exactly is a roundabout and exactly how does it work???
NEVERMORE
Tue 11-07-2006
I'm not sure. I think Felyne is right, though.
Lynne
Tue 11-07-2006
This is one of our roundabouts, in the UK there is a particularly large one that has traffic lights and is about 4 lanes.

http://www.ltsa.govt.n...fx/roundabout-03.jpg
Felyne
Tue 11-07-2006
... as opposed to the Magic Roundabout, with Florence and Dougal and Dylan.

Dougal rocks my socks.
Felyne
Tue 11-07-2006
Wow, thats so confusing looking. I would hate to have to drive in a roundabout.
Jo
Wed 11-08-2006
You guys get confused ..........even we do because most idiots don`t use their indicators on our roundabouts .......they are a bleedin` nightmare even to us .lol.....that`s exactly what the Beatles were singing about in the song .....a roundabout in a road
Juicy Fruit
Tue 11-14-2006
T.D., don't worry if no-one else got it, I did!
Frank-pgh
Thu 12-28-2006
A roundabout is some poor sociopathic traffic engineer's revenge on society for all life's ill that have befallen them.. I have been stuck on one of those in London for 20 minutes.. See "National Lampoon's European Vacation"
Anyhoo, I can envision some poor patient getting stuck walking around in circles for hours in one of these...
Doctor DETH
Mon 02-05-2007
It would be great if it were restored to it's originalty.
C-Note
Sun 04-15-2007
Nice, never seen a wooden revolving door befor.
Mike2
Sun 10-07-2007
There are wooden revolving doors very similar to this as a side entrance to my local infirmary in Aberdeen (Scotland), which is still in use-I guess they're not so rare in hospitals after all! :-)
Littleflippit
Wed 12-05-2007
I've never seen that before....That's really cool to have been in a Hospital.
Lauren
Sun 03-30-2008
lol its funny you all dont know what a roundabout is lol its a big circula ireland in a crossroads and if you want to go in to the futhest exit you have to hug the roundabout and indicate when you want to leave to turn off for your lane its a piece of cake lol i live about 60miles from denbigh and there are about 15 roundabouts when driving there lol. oh my god you people are also said its a door that rotates lol they have them in many hospitals just like bangor hospital has one a massive one but it dont look as nice as the wooden ones that you push by your self. going to denbigh again soon i can never find these rotating doors any clues?
X
Wed 04-02-2008
in a general hospital about 45 mins away from this place glan clwyd is a great big revolving door iv managed to get very confused in that very easily...god help the patients in this place who had o use it!
kirstums
Sun 04-20-2008
Oh, how cool!!
Aggie
Sun 05-25-2008
We got to the front of the hospital. but couldnt find these doors, but looks like the ceiling had collapsed!!! Some proper scary stuff was going on when we where there!! cool PIc xx
Claire
Wed 08-27-2008
thats beautiful!
monkey
Sun 09-07-2008
The other side seems to be nothing but encompassing darkness.
*shudders*
Zara
Sun 10-19-2008
Simply beautiful.
Roxana
Mon 10-27-2008
A common expression in mental health care for those patients who cycle in and out of psychiatric hospitals, never seeming to stabilize enough to be successful in community living, is "revolving door" patients. This gives a new, literal, meaning!
dme
Fri 11-14-2008
Just makes one wonder what it was like back then. When it was still open for business.
Nadine
Fri 01-09-2009
too cool motts
swamp thing fla
Sat 03-28-2009
Did you like the black and red stairs? I thought this bit was freeky cuz it was oldfashioned yet modern with the stairs, but no far away was the padded rooms right? I was gutted cuz all the padding was ripped out
Aliciaa
Thu 07-23-2009
Ysbyty Gwynedd has some pretty deadly rotating doors...

When I went to see my Dad on my 17th bday (he had pneumonia), my little brother nearly got stuck in the doors!
Tiny
Mon 05-17-2010
sliding automatic doors are the simplistic answer in every medical facility I've seen.
STL girl
Sun 06-20-2010
Perhaps they are the doorway to hell!
Gerbabe
Thu 10-21-2010
seems like once you go through them revolving doors you vome out in a place totally different - FREAKY!
Shin
Tue 10-25-2011

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