1,827 Comments Posted by eldokid@aol.com

very similar to what has happened to my body after fifty years HAHA

Was there any projection equipment up there?

you must have nerves of steel

It's a loud soap dispenser (here we go again!)

what a shame a place like this is disintegrating

wow, you're not kidding Mr. Motts. Atmosphere is right ~ not to mention all the emotion this picture stirs up

Even with all the distruction with the passing of time, it still emits a sense of grace ~

HOLY STROMBOLI!! That wall looks like it could go any minute!

looks like a little bit of everything plus age

The comparison before / after shots always fascinate me.

Once again, I am freakin' SPEACHLESS. This is one of the most beautiful galleries yet.

First item in line is TOBACCO? Wow, how times have changed!!

Apparently this place has been remodeled and turned into apartments and condos. They did a wonderful job and the residences are beautiful BUT I find something very uneasy about living in a place that once may or may not have been home to such horrors as patient mistreatment or death. Although I'm not afraid of the supernatural, I often wonder if any of these new residents have experienced anything "unusual" and if the new owners are having any difficulties renting based on what the property once was?

Regarding the asbestos situation. when I was young my parents house had this huge old furnace that at one time was probably coal fired. Growing up, they had it converted to oil and then at one time to gas but I recall the thick white asbestos wrapped around all the pipes and ducts running through the basement. I recall picking at it because some of it was split and falling off. I would pick at it and watch chunks of it fall off thinking what the heck is this? Little did I know I was probably killing myself. My father had a workshop down there and would spend hours in that basement fixing televisions and he lived to be 88 so I guess you never know.

We had doors just like that in the house I grew up in, all the bedrooms had these six panel doors. But I noticed no one mentioned the FLOOR? Does anyone else think there is something odd about the way it lists towards the left? Was this room sinking or is this just some kind of illusion? Very upsetting to think of stepping out that door and then wheeeee....