Seats

like some wierd modern stonhedge....no soap dishes?
i love this site thanks

Not much privacy - I bet that one on the end was often used so that no one would walk past you while you were sat there!

What were these people thinking? No wonder they were insane, I would be too if I had to poo right next to someone with no privacy!!

Just found this site a few days ago - have been hooked ever since.

One of the elementary schools I attended as a kid had a bathroom like this - no doors, just little walls between the toilets. Only went there once a week for "GATE" but it was a normal functioning elementary school in the Hill District in Pittsburgh with kids who attended daily, too.

Never understood the bathrooms. NO ONE would use them! there was one "teacher's stall" at the end with a door everyone would stand in line to use - even the kids who went to school there every day and were used to it. So of course going to the bathroom took forever.

Ummm... yeah. No privacy in the can is just a little dehumanizing.

It made supervision of the "clients" much easier. Now something like this would never be allowed because of client rights...a much needed improvement in the care of chronically mentally ill and developmentally disabled.

Here I sit broken hearted, paid a dime and only....:) I know its childish, but thats just me

Reminds me of my old daycare center, except we didn't even have the dividers! You just had to try to pull your shirt over your knees. Yes, this is one of the memories that led me to be a SAHM!

No I don't think I'd like this much.....how dehumanizing. I do understand why it was done but no privacy even in the bathroom? Wow......scary really.

Reminds me of a bunch of tombstones lined up....

Hmmmm,......decisions, decisions.

Reminds me of my first time in prison. The place had formerly been an insane asylum. Today it is Eastern Ore. Correctional Inst. located in Pendleton,Ore. Anyway the toilets were just like photo except there were no dividers! It was supposed to be haunted. I had a job washing dishes in kitchen. It was connected with the tunnels that most of the old institutions had. It was a creepy place.

Reminds me of the bathroom in the
ancient Colosseum,only with dividers.

I like to use the german word: Massen
abfertigung..... for this picture.

what alot of privacy aha

"Now something like this would never be allowed because of client rights"

Wrong! Broughton hospital located in Morganton, NC has bathrooms like this in the daytime treatment ward..where the patients go for "class" during the day. In the actual wards, there were regular stalls in the bathrooms. The treatment ward bathrooms were used regularly, if you've gotta go you've gotta go!

(mark...we won't ask.) jp- I was slightly traumatized by a similar situation in 4th/5th grades...a public restroom in the upper grades hall with the stalls-but no doors!! I always went to the two behind a divider by the door.

I have bad dreams about needing to pee and the stall not having a door or there being several toilets lined up with no stalls or multipul seats in one stall. This is the first time I've ever seen that dream come to life. Totally creeping me out that my dream is of something real and I didn't even know it.

I was a patient at Manteno in 1977&1978;.I remember those bathrooms. I was at James Bldg,which was remodeled& the bathrooms had regular stalls with doors& the showers had doors.My understanding why it was built that way is in 1930s mental hospitals were thought to be built like reform schools & were not very comfortable. Today the concept is mentally ill people deserve better & the concept is for a dignified environment.This picture is in a 1936 bldg.Cottage ward bldgs from 1934 such as Krapelin have 8 toilets with no stalls or partitions at all. The Krapelin bldg is where the Chaplains were. We had 2 Catholic Priests& had Mass almost every day. Manteno MHC was not as bad as the common perception There were good staff for the most part God bless &peace; to all from James Vezina Chicago IL