Photo of a building not sure what, help identify?

Discussion in 'Ephemera and Photographs' started by Kingjoker, Apr 20, 2016.

  1. Kingjoker

    Kingjoker Well-Known Member

  2. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    From its design, I would think it was a hospital. (The wings allow air and light to the maximum number of wards.)

    Debora
     

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  3. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Not much of an "entrance" - so I would think this might be a view of the back. But given the building's height and the uniformity of the windows - and the "power plant" off on the left side - I would guess hospital, first, or part of a university, second.
     
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  4. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    A great example, Debora!
     
  5. afantiques

    afantiques Well-Known Member

    The 'power plant' may be a crematorium/incinerator, hospitals generate tons of medical watse and bits of bodies, apart from whole ones. Look at any hospital and you'll usually find a tall chimney somewhere lurking nearby.
     
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  6. GaleriaGila

    GaleriaGila Hola, y'all!

    I'll never pass a hospital again without looking for a smokestack now... :watching:
     
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  7. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    Old fashioned hospitals give me the willies. Well, okay maybe not old hospitals...but old sanitariums and old lunatic-asylums do...horrifying places. The names don't help much either.

    I mean seriously. There is (or was) a mental asylum in England called Hellingly Hospital. I mean you can't get more twisted than that. And yes, it was a real psychiatric hospital.

    And no, I'm not making that up. Here it is:

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    It closed in 1994. Most of it is demolished now, but apparently there are still some outbuildings that remain.
     
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  8. rhiwfield

    rhiwfield Well-Known Member

    I once inspected the inside of the incinerator at a hospital when it was temporarily closed for maintenance. Those were the days!
     
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  9. Jen and George

    Jen and George Well-Known Member

    We lived in San Francisco in the late 60's when George was in the Army. They didn't have a position for his MOS so he ended up as a clerk for the head of surgery at Letterman Hospital. One of his jobs was burning body parts.
     
  10. GaleriaGila

    GaleriaGila Hola, y'all!

    GOOD GLORYYYYY!!!!
     
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