“I can’t tell if this place is even open,” observes Flickr member Stacy (Smells Like Bacon) of the above “creepy dental lab” in Chicago. “It has a random clock and creepy clowns hanging everywhere in the window,” she adds. Flickr member Cassandra Kimmel (eraserhappy) was similarly disturbed, stating “this has to be the most ominous and peculiar thing I’ve ever seen. If you weren’t already afraid of dentists you should be now!”
The photo above by Walter Breitzke (genarians) dated October 6th, 2013 is the most recent and shows a FOR SALE sign propped up beneath the clock. Not sure if it’s just the so-called random clock that’s for sale, or the entire dental lab itself. Better include the clock AND the clowns, dude, or that’s a deal-breaker.
Laboratorium?
Folks aren’t impressed when you say you work at a dental laboratory? Tell ’em you’re employed by the Dental Laboratorium in Copenhagen instead, and watch their respect expand exponentially! Of course, they’ll breathlessly demand to know what goes on inside a Dental Laboratorium but when they ask, just shrug and state “I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”
Laboratorista??
We see your laboratorium and raise you a laboratorista! No, it’s not someone who works at Starbuck’s latte testing center, it’s a homespun dental lab in Castro, capital city of Chile’s island province of Chiloé.
Flickr members Lars & Lillan Juhlin (lilaju) snapped the homespun dental lab’s folk-art front facade on Christmas Day of 2005. Is that a twerking tooth dressed in a thong? Never mind, we really don’t want to know.
Window Chomping
The above dental lab in London’s Tooting district is supposedly the Morris Dental Laboratory. Flickr member andy hebden (looper23) snapped the storefront in late 2010 when the “Morris” had been removed for some reason.
Anyway, that’s a lovely window display with houseplants surrounded by seashells… wait a minute, those aren’t seashells!!
Is It Safe?
“Doesn’t sound very inviting!,” comments Flickr member The magic world of Marin of the nasty, er, Nazi Dental Laboratory and we must agree – without even mentioning the iron-barred front gate and presumed armed guards posted in watchtowers just out of the frame. Is it safe to assume it isn’t safe? Doubling down, the lab is located in Bethlehem, birthplace of Jesus according to the New Testament. Potential clients are advised to bring gold, frankincense, myrrh… and oil of cloves.
