25 Comments Posted by Destiny

As to the "mini bar rum bottle"- the rubber-covered top is evidence that it is indeed medication, not rum. It is in a FDA approved container for medications approved for injection. That would cost a pretty penny...

There is a bottle cap made of metal in the lower left corner of the shot, and it likely came from a regular sized alcoholic beverage.

Motts, was this in a cell where there were squatters? The soda bottle looks fairly new, and there is a likely reason these people live in a jail cell. Too bad the state would throw them in an active prison instead of rehabilitating them and getting them back on their feet, or we could get them help.

People in those cages, but fines if you do the same to chickens or pigs. Someone call PETA to protect the people's rights.

Yet another asylum with "Agitation Green".
So, Motts, any rooms here with "Color Me Crazier Pink"? If I remeber correctly, Baker's Pink?

Was that meant to throw back to the bakery boxes of past days, or the old medicine company, Baker's? They made something similar to Pepto Bismal...

In case you got those body tissue samples in your eye. Always with the danger and the spoiling of our fun.

Interesting point, Peat, since the asylums were first created to allow a place for treatment of conditions that people needed treatment for, but were instead being thrown into a prison cell to rot.

This asylum, however, has not shut down, according to the statements at the beginning of the gallery. It has simply fallen into disuse, but may be reopened to house more patients soon.

Hope is not lost, though the place is dreary enough to make you think it may be.

As to specimens-
A family member or the patient (depending on their mental state, some could represent themselves) would have to sign off beforehand on the posthumous removal of any body part, unless a stipulation allowed the state to make that decision due to a lack of any relatives. Patient rights have greatly increased in the last 20 years.

Or they could wait 5 more years and the lead-based paint will have removed itself from the walls, apparently.

Ya know, it looks like a university from this angle.
I love the way the brick repeats the subtle reds in the sunrise.

The reason we taped the fridges shut after Katrina- but we did put warnings after cleanup crews & looters started opening them. Served the looters right!

The light from above makes it almost heavenly. Ah, at last, the door to Eden.