Thursday, January 6, 2011

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - TWWW part 8

“It was much pleasanter at home when one wasn’t
always growing larger and smaller and being
ordered about by mice and rabbits.”
Alice from Alice in Wonderland


Morris hadn’t been to the Weinguard Clinic in years. He was surprised it was still there. He was surprised this is where is appointment was. The false front of the Weinguard as a free clinic and medical learning facility was still intact. What was not so well known was the clinics history of being a medical test sight. 40 percent of new pharmaceutical drugs for the U.S. went through the Weinguard.

Not much was done to improve the look of it. The clinic still looked like a government run facility. It had its original paint job; parts of the stucco had worn away revealing the gray concrete underneath. The walkway was garnished by alternate patches of grass and dirt; there were weeds where flowers should have been and the ‘I’ and ‘U’ in the signage was washed away. The inside looked no better; multi colored chairs, indoor/outdoor stained carpet and magazines dating back to 1999.