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The Tub

The Tub

The terraced pit had interesting swimming pool-like ladders leading to the ground floor.
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Wow- the chairs, the metal, the viewing equipment on the wall. wooden swivel chairs!
were they swivel-y?
RacheyBachey
Sun 01-13-2008
I was actually going to ask the same question on the previous pic ^_^
Stacy
Sun 01-13-2008
If my memory serves me correctly, I believe they swiveled then sprang back into place once you got up. Perhaps this was to look neater, or to keep them out of the way if you needed to walk in the narrow space past them.
Motts
Sun 01-13-2008
Looks like something out of a mad-scientist movie. I'm really digging the viewing screen or whatever that is on the right.
Frida
Sun 01-13-2008
I imagine the swimming pool like ladders were used to provide space, stairs would cluster the area..It may be a design fault...
Jak
Sun 01-13-2008
Wow, all of that vintage tile, I didnt realize that there was so much tile!
JAVA
Sun 01-13-2008
I love this, very interesting!
Michele
Sun 01-13-2008
no diving please
Joe
Mon 01-14-2008
That tile looks kind of modern
jackieb
Mon 01-14-2008
The pool-style ladder just makes me think of that whole space down there being flooded with fluids of some sort...

No roughhousing in the formaldehyde pool!
Kemper
Mon 01-14-2008
Great shot Motts. I wonder what the cubby hole was for on the bottom, maybe storage? And do you remember what the contraption hanging on the wall was?
Jude
Tue 01-15-2008
I'm really not sure, it looks like a light box used to illuminate x-rays; I suppose it could also be a diffused light for working with the table.
Motts
Wed 01-16-2008
EGADS.
But you know, looks kind of fun, though.
Guitorman
Wed 01-16-2008
I agree with Motts; the thing on the wall
is almost certainly a lightbox for X-ray
prints or other transparencies.

I'll echo Jude's other question, though:
what's that opening at ground level?
I suspect Lynne might know about this...
SkedAddled
Wed 01-16-2008
motts? lynn? ideas on the cubby hole?
kaycebane
Thu 01-17-2008
Most likely venting for air circulation, or an access hatch to install / repair the seats or platform.
Motts
Thu 01-17-2008
Agreed - prolly HVAC.
Lynne
Fri 01-18-2008
kaycebane - Looks like stairs inside the cubey hole or maybe it's just the lighting.
sickone
Fri 01-18-2008
that hole looks like it might possibly have been some kind of air duct...
tobie
Sat 01-19-2008
great pic
silkster40z
Sun 01-27-2008
If you think about it.. The whole room looks like a big swimmingpool. Why build a veiwingroom with the walls and almost everything else, with clinkers?
Cissilini
Fri 03-21-2008
Easier to clean? The most sanitary choice at the moment maybe?
Hmm...
Marguerite
Mon 03-31-2008
if i read that right it closed in 2004?
this place looks like it closed in the 70's
nick
Thu 04-17-2008
2004 was the official closing date - certain departments, wings, etc. might have closed at different times.
Motts
Mon 04-21-2008
looks like.....a pool...!
karloz
Mon 07-21-2008
That is a very odd room. Theater style seating with a screen to one side and what looks like a small pool at the bottom. Very strange. I almost want to do some research on that design.
aceofspades70
Fri 10-17-2008
Dang, I didn't even notice the electrical outlets in the "pool".
aceofspades70
Fri 10-17-2008
that wewe the opaloopa come out
swamp thing fla
Wed 03-25-2009
I just want to crawl into that hole...
MamaToFiveInPA
Thu 12-16-2010

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