Blinds

yet another fantastic set of photos thanks for sharing

You are right, it´s the operating broom! 100%

I think it is there to make us ponder openly.

Wonder what this one looked like - must have been super!

Look here:

http://users.pandora.b...graphy/sjl_pc_17.htm

That´s the morgue, look:


http://stoffel.cartel8...;view=img&img=38

this one "blue" me away...........

The bright blue really adds to the starkness of this shot, I like it.

I love that shade of blue!

One of your best series yet, Mr. Motts. "L'Art Moderne" sure can get old in a hurry!

my money is on operating room. If it was the morgue, where are the drawers for the bodies?

I can see the captain steering his ship into the unknown and uncharted waters madness and wellness.

ROFLMAO JOHNNY!! GOOD ONE!

I think we can rule out this room being used as a morgue. If you take a look at the picture, you'll notice that there are radiators installed.. then nother set in front of them. Seems this room was kept rather warm.
Operating room,.. maybe, seems more like a staff room to me.

The luxry ship from l937, the Titanic. No matter where I go with this I see the cruise ships of the 30's. The decks, the deck chairs, the captain at the helm and ready to sink at any given time. It's the coolest, imaginative series of photos that just hits home. Again, Motts, you are the best. Onward and upward my man.

Excellent photo!

"The luxry ship from l937, the Titanic. No matter where I go with this I see the cruise ships of the 30's."

Johnny, I think you would really enjoy this wonderful site!

http://www.lostliners.com

Like this room! =P

didn''t operating rooms had to be kept cool? Every one I ever been in was icy cold. Maybe those vents kept cool air in when surgery was performed. I mayb way off kilter though.

In the last time the Sanatarium was used as a nursing home and don´t need an operating room.... Look at the old picture at the link, it´s 100% the operating room, Sorry my bad english.... I am german ;-))

I dont know...the operating room in the pic looks like the windows are curved with out vertical mullions...yet Motts pic has the mullions. See what i'm saying?

That's a really creepy looking room... gives me the shivers just looking at it!

I love the blue

The blue windows are hanging from a support on the inside of the room. They are there to block the sunlight, kind of like shutters. You can see in the original picture what the outer windows look like. They don't have the mullions because there are two sets of windows. The support for the blue windows was probably added while this was a geriatric facility.

This is clearly a different room than in the old photo. Look at the radiators and the space between the outer windows. By the way, Starlight, you are right about the temperature. Operating rooms are kept cool these days, but back in the day they were kept warm.

@ Heather

It´s the operating room 100% ;-)

Look here:


http://www.bilder-hoch...iles/41rl-x-jpg.html

http://www.bilder-hoch...s/41rl-y-jpg-nb.html

Greets from Germany,

ANDY

LOVE THE BLUE WINDOWS. ANOTHER GREAT PICTURES MOTTS.

Andy - You provided some beautiful pictures, but one of the exterior ones you linked to shows a first-story room that has windows segmented in the same way this one is. Also, judging from the interior pictures of the operating room that were provided, the layout of the lower half of the wall and the radiators is similar, but they do not exactly match the earlier pictures of the operating room (and I assume that since the original radiators are still in place, there were no huge changes made in this room). Finally, take into account the fact that the trees outside the window, while admittedly not clearly visible, seem to be quite tall from this perspective ... And I'm willing to bet that Motts was actually in the first-story room shown just below the operating room.

Check out the exterior shot that Andy provided to see how the windows compare.

http://www.bilder-hoch...s/41rl-y-jpg-nb.html

It would have been incredibly difficult - if not far too expensive - to put in new crank-open windows where the old single-panel windows had been; never mind the amount you would pay to have them constructed and installed in the first place. Since there are crank windows, my guess is that this was some sort of day room - or, perhaps, a waiting room for any present family (you never know!) for patients in the operating room on the floor above.

I must wonder, now: Motts, were you on the first or second story for this picture? That would certainly erase all doubt.

I hope this plan can help. The room with the blue windows is 100% the operating room. ;-)

Look here:

http://www.bilder-hoch...les/41rl-a8-jpg.html

By the way...

1 month ago we visit the sanatorium. The blue shatters all smashed... :-(

This was an aquarium - the broken windows let all the water out LOL