There are two places in LH that I know of with these fascinating doors that lead nowhere. Well, assuming you don’t want to go straight down in a hurry. I like the way they suggest hidden meaning, some purpose known only to those on the inside, leaving the outsider to create some fanciful reason for their existence. Were these docking stations made in preparation for the promised jetpack era? Extra exciting platforms for the company pool and trampoline parties? I bet somebody is going to ruin the fun by suggesting some lame practical application (“that’s how they get the phone equipment to the third floor”) but I still prefer to imagine there is something much more interesting going on.
Above you see the PacBell building, site where all the local DSL connections branch out to your homes. After the jump, the site where the Toy Loan center used to be based.
I’m quite sure there is also a house in LH with a door to nowhere but I can’t seem to find the picture I thought I took. I’m gonna try and find it again and will update this if it exists!
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Those top ones on the SBC building are for crane access to load in things like generators and giant switches and whatnot. They are chained to prevent someone from trying to emergency exit out of them, most likely.
As for the one below that’s obviously the Winchester Warehouse. Actually there were probably wooden stairs there at some point.
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Thanks for the info, but you win the prize for quickest buzzkill ever! 😉
I’d like to imagine that they were product testing scenarios for a new bread of really bouncy, soft people. Could happen!
In Newfoundland, there are exit doors on the 2nd floor without an outside stair. They’re called “mother-in-law doors”.
True story.
They have these in Newfoundland. They’re called “mother-in-law doors”. I did a quick search on flickr … here’s a link to a photo of one …
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lu_/34035289/
These must have been used when someone was fired from the job. The boss would make them leave through these doors. There’s a few guys at my job I wish got fired this way.
Malcovich! Malcovich!
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Hey Chavo, I responded to your comment on my blog. Thanks for stopping by. Food pics on your blog are killing me…
“I’d like to imagine that they were product testing scenarios for a new bread of really bouncy, soft people.”
I imagine that you are one of these fluffy people Chucky. If I pushed you down a flight of stairs I bet you’d just squish a little maybe ooze out some plazma and boring idenity politik rhetoric.
“Matt, its wrong and oppressive to push people down stairs but I’m glad that you didn’t push a black disabled lesbian of color down these stairs. I’m priviliged enough that I can be pushed down these stairs as a white squishy male to bounce right back up like the breading of a twinkie when fingered by the a seven year old nosepicker.”
matt lucas