515 Comments Posted by Darlene

Now this is just plain old ugly.

Clothes and shoes are always left behind in these places.

Think I'll pass on that game of shuffleboard.

Wanna play a game of basketball anyone?

By the way, now that I look closer, is that carpeting on the floor? I sure hope not. Carpeting in a bathroom = unsanitary.

Tootcommon, and no one smashed the mirror either!

It was most likely for safety reasons, Mica.

Those walls on the left remind me of the walls in one of the elementary schools I attended. It's the architecture of the 50's. Oh how I would never want to live or work in this place. The bland color alone is enough to depress a person.

The first thing it reminded me of was those cages at fairs where the clowns sit inside making fun of people walking by. Then, if someone hits the ball just in the right spot, the clown falls in the water.

Motts encounters a fellow traveler.

Ultraviolet, I am puzzled by the same thing. In so many of these hospitals and asylums the records of patients are left behind. In this case, it seems that all they had to do was erase the name on the boards before they left.

Beauty in the midst of sadness and decay.

I can just imagine what it was like to drag a troubled patient off to the "Quiet Room." These psych hospitals were such depressing places to live.

Wanderer, I agree it does look like a school - especially that smaller building to the left. That looks very much like one of the elementary schools I attended.

Another gallery so soon after the other one. What a treat. And a psych ward....one of my favorite places to view here on Opacity.