Yesterday I wrote, only half-facetiously, about my road trip…
Along the way I wish I had been taking photos of bathroom tiles in old rectories. Some of them have their fixtures from the 40’s and 50’s, which means also great color combinations like pink and green with gray…. I should start a series for priests to send in photos of their rectories (anonymized of course) or places they visit (again anonymized): VINTAGE RECTORY BATHROOM TILES
Wouldn’t ya know but these came in today.
These are great pics, I’ve gotta say.
However, Fathers, remember that the vertically oriented shots post better on the blog than horizontally. After all, the blog really ought to be more about the transcendent than the immanent, right?
(Having written that on a post about rectory bathroom tiles… sheesh.)
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Love the idea, original bathrooms are wonderful.
Cool! My undergraduate university had some hidden bathrooms in the library that had that tile design (though in pale green and lighter green paint).
RE Orientation of Photos: For myself, the horizontal photo/images are much much much better than those that are vertical. I can see how the vertical might look better on a phone held vertically, though, but even then most vertical photos have a claustrophobic cropped feel to them for me.
Either way, what is helpful, though is to encode image placement so that clicking on the image gives you a larger image in a lightbox.
This really tickled me. I hope there are other submissions. This is why I love reading your blog. Our lives have so many hidden things in common; humor, tragedy, joy, awkwardness, delights, mayhem, disasters in the kitchen…… the list goes on. It’s nice to get a peek into some of other people’s ordinariness. You get to feel connected to them in some strange way.
By the way, I never, in all my life would have thought of pairing salmon pink and forest green.
Vintage yes. Can y’all get a skylight in that room?
Oh wow…those tiles are exactly the same as my grandparent’s house in St. Pete from my childhood, right down to the slightly-darker curved pieces where the tile ends and the paint begins. Memories | light the corners of my mind…
@TeoMatteo, parce Steven Wright, it would make the upstairs neighbor quite upset
Brilliant! Tiny bath though, like a Sitzbad. For Germanic priests to say the Breviary while bathing!
That arched cove over the tub really speaks to a whole lot of unnecessary effort on behalf of mere aesthetics, which is semper plaudendum. I also appreciate what appears to be, if it in fact is, a service hatch for the plumbing to the right of the tub. Always have shut-off valves and a hatch!
These tiles remind me of some hospital corridors. Some of the older hospitals have tiled restrooms too. Several hospitals I remember from the 1980s had tiled corridors if they were built before 1965.
Fun fact…the old St. John’s Hospital in the Los Angeles area was built in 1942. I heard the lead architect/engineer was a religious sister – I guess the religious order also had several nurses who staffed the hospital. This was the hospital that served as the backdrop for Marcus Welby, M.D. and some episodes did feature religious sisters. I bet up through the early 1960s the religious sisters were more visible at St. John’s. I think St. John’s was demolished circa 1995 due to earthquake damage a few years before. It probably had to do in part with the expense to upgrade St. John’s up to the current building codes. It was a nice hospital with one of a kind architecture.