84 Comments Posted by Ben

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Can anyone tell me if the state police still enforce the no tresspassing like they used to? I want to go back to kings park and pilgrim, but dont know if the state cops are still hiding out there at night. how do you get into the buildings??
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cement pad probably had picnic tables or chairs so you could be outside under that maple tree.
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the place doesn't look vandalized at all, but maybe somebody played a little trick on posterity...
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that was the likely use misery... if you go to the hospital in an ambulance they restrain you a LOT more thoroughly than a couple of straps across the gut.
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when i see entrances like this i always imagine "emergency" admissions...

looks like a service entrance though, no way you could negotiate that huge step from the asphalt up to the plinth with any grace...
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yep probably for more than one patient... we had whirlpools like that in our high school gym, very good for loosening up after february tennis matches.
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possibly long-term patient caricatures? or just a mural of healthy people?

reminds me of a kindergarten art project... self portraits or drawings that you do of yourself and your family for parents' night.
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the caption states that the building is still in use.

absolutely gigantic. i have to guess that this is not the front side of the building though.
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holy crap that place is huge. for some reason 5 stories seems to be the defining line betwen "normal" and huge. it completely obscures the horizon.
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people talk smack about international style architecture, but i love it. that said it is certainly meant to be viewed from afar.
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lol @ english colloquialisms...

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the bathrooms in our old house had that same tile pattern. funny to see it again.
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this is where we heard the sirens right b4 we got cought. sooo nuts. maybe i can clean this place up for my community servace.
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i was just there the nite b4 last and i got arrested.. its not a mental hospital.. its an abandond hospital for TB.. and it got closed for aspestos*. so im in trouble for trespassing and parking illeagally in the park a mile down the road.
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i have that exact model chair at home. bought it at a NASA yard sale.