3 Comments Posted by CCR

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Regarding the ceiling radiators, they probably were intended to warm the floors above them. So ea. floor had heat rising from beneath. ???
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I also want to comment that mental institutions were a "catch all" for the shame that families felt and/or for their inability to care for their "damaged" family member. Some people "dumped" the family member (as many do today - take a lvisit to some OPEN Veteran's Hospitals and nursing homes). Abuses ran rampant then and in too many cases, still do.
What truly IS frightening is not these vacant, dilapidated buildings, but the human hearts that were so hard and cruel to allow such human suffering when the buildings were "alive". Even more frightening are the people "outside" the institutions who are far more dangerous, and they are NOT retarded.
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I saw this building once, in the early 50s when my mother took me to visit two men she knew (family secret - they were her brothers). At the time it was beautiful! I was only between 3-5 yrs old but I recall how lovely it was - my "uncles" sat with us on rolling, grassy hills. They both played guitars and sang while a crowd gathered around.