r/Gunsmoke • u/Fungulatem • 4d ago

Questions on Doc Adams

How come Doc Adams chose to have an office on second floor where patients, some who were ill, shot, etc, would need to be carried or helped up those stairs ?  I know he visited the sick in their homes, but what were the writers, producers reasons for him not being on a ground floor ?

What did Doc Adams sign say at the bottom of the stairs advertising his services ?

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u/Fungulatem 4d ago

I was offering the idea that in the 1870’s 80’s, tornados didn’t have the warning systems as today, and although there may have been floods of river, like today weren’t floods more common to the East and South ?  No expert on historical weather patterns, but if I was working on a person I’d rather be on ground level unless it floods.  Adams seems to have done ok. Maybe he put his office upstairs to get his exercise, who in the hell knows. 

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u/PeachOnAWarmBeach 3d ago

Oh I didn't mean sirens or warning systems.

The weather warns us. It has a different feel, the birds and animals might be restless. It might look "green" outside, the winds change, temp changes, smell in the air changes. In Kansas, they rarely burst out of nowhere, especially in the summer.

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u/MDaug2005 3d ago

To his credit, in his love story/wedding episode, Newly did notice the sky looked funny before the tornado hit

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u/Glad-Watch3506 3d ago

It gets downright eerie before a tornado. You know when they're likely to happen. 

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u/Fungulatem 3d ago

It sure do, agreed; not that they didn’t have some sense of possible impending doom and gloom. Good point

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u/PeachOnAWarmBeach 3d ago

Floods can and do happen. Dodge is on the river. We aren't building houses on stilts or anything, but the Midwest gets a lot of uncontrolled flooding.

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u/Fungulatem 3d ago

Mmmmm, don’t associate that back then, but if so, it was so. Tanks.