46 Comments Posted by James

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This looks fucking creepy af
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Looks like the float switch for a sewage ejector pit to me
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I worked on Executone systems from P.A., telephone systems, and nurse call since 1976.

It is a Paging system zone box. The switches switch the zones on and off to the Mic. It's a fairly simple and straight forward design. John J and Traditional John have it right.
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Looking at it, what you're seeing is essentially a giant threshing machine. The massive blades will chop up and slice apart the coke, removing it from the coal, 'chaff', chuff, and assorted bits of rock. You'd have that machine way off in a corner of the planet, and it would be the loudest thing in the entire factory, even louder then the KER_KLUNK of the drill presses. Normally, it'd be surrounded by a cage, but it appears to either have been taken down, fallen down, or rusted away.
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Mooring line...kind of funny. That hulk isn't going anywhere, ever again.
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Lots of people put their hard work into this space, erecting it, and even more, different people treated the sick here. I wonder how many patients were comforted by this open expanse, the air, and the sunlight. This isn't a sad hospital. This...this is a happy place.
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Someone, years and years ago, poured time, effort, and perhaps even hope for the future into those wall tiles. It makes you think. Where are they now? Would they be happy with the history of this place? What were they thinking as they placed them up? Hope for the future? Dread of the disease? Were they wealthy? Poor? Starving? Dying?

Sobering. Very sobering.

(Pun unintended! XD)
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A monument to man's eternal forgetfulness. A sad, but revealing, photograph.
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I grew up down the street from the Kings. Used to go all the time, very happy to hear it's being restored. I found some more info here

http://www.afterthefin...loews-kings-theatre/
Ephemera: Red Velvet Paradise
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What the hell are you talking about? It just means grey.
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What's all this about people being reduced to a number? I'm sure there was at the time of burial, an index that the hospital would refer to when a deceased patient's family came and wanted to visit the grave or possibly pay to relocate the remains in a private cemetery. The point is they had some policy that the grave markers where to be nondescript so that trespassers whose business was none of theirs could not nose around looking for a particular grave and mess up the place.
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If you turn up the contrast on your monitor, you can really see the detail on the edge of the stairs.

...makes me wish they would restore it even more :(.
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PEOPLE THAT LLIVED AT WILLOWBROOK AND THIS PLACE SHOULD GIVE THE CHANCE TO TO TAKE THERE ANGER OUT AND DO WHAT EVER IT IS THAT THEY WANT TO TO THE PLACE NOT FARE. I WISH I COULD GET 2 HOURS TO THROW ROCKS BURN IT DOWN AND WILLOWBROOK TO AND TAKE MY ANGER OUT ON IT. BUT SENCE I CANT I WILL DO SOMTHING TO MAKE SURE THIS DOESNT HAPPIN AGIN. IF U GO TO YOUTUBE AND TYPE IN BULGARIA ABANDON CHILDREN U WILL THIS KIND OF SHIT HAPPINS TODAY.
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I REMABER WHEN IW AS KID IF U WAS BAD OR U BITE YOURSELF THEY WOULD TIE YOUR HANDS DOWN AND FEET .
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I USE TO LIVE IN WILLOWBROOK FROM 1969 TO 1980 I WAS BORN DEAF BUT MY MOM WAS TOLD I WAS DEAF AND DUMB SO WOULDNT LEARN ANYTHING. I THOUGHT WILLOWBROOK WAS THE ONLY PLACE BUT JUST TODAY I RAN INTO THIS WEBSITE AND I GUESS I WAS WORNG MAKES ME FEEL SAD THAT I COULD HAVE ENDED UP THERE TO BECAUSE I STARTED LATE ON THINGS . PISSES ME OFF BEOCUSE I DIDNT GET TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT WHEN IT CLOSED DOWN. OR WHEN IW AS MOVED OUT .