201 Comments Posted by MAX

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Cheery toys in abandoned mental hospitals create such perverse juxtaposition!
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Yes, I too noticed the beautiful lattice work on those windows. Nice to see they're still intact.
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Take care scraping. Probably lead-based paint!
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I have been looking for news on the Byberry campus. Anyone heard?
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I'm from the area. My sister and brother-in-law just moved into a house right down the road from the Noho hospital site. I've never been in there, but I know people who have. The outer facades are sad and creepy enough for me!
It'll all be razed quite soon. The property values in Northampton are waaaay too high at this point.
I'm surprised Danvers is still standing. Property values out there are even higher. But...it takes time to raze these kinds of buildings nowadays. You know, Asbestos, environmental regs, and whatnot.
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Hearing voices, eh, Mr. Motts? Back in the day, for that they didn't let you leave there, you had to STAY! Muahahaha!

Another great gallery, Motts!
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I don't belong in here, doc! I been framed!
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The Doors of Dejection
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Ple-Bird
from New York (???)
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I was thinking the same thing, I wouldn't risk getting locked in a super-secure room in an abandoned hospital...but then again, I wouldn't go one tenth of the places Mr. Motts goes, so the question is moot!
Puddleboy...I'm taking a guess how you got your name! If I was trapped in a basement amid soggy newspapers and a Marvin Gay album, I might make a puddle too!
Chipy's story is the stuff of nightmares, IMO. There's weird junk in old houses, like Asbestos. But when you're a kid, you do crazy things...
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Oh, yes, our staff is very sensitive about the art selection. Nothing that would make a nervous person feel agitated!
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No stall doors. The BIG DUDES stand there and watch you, make sure you don't hurt yerself or nobody else! Maybe one of the big dudes likes you, who's gonna believe you anyway, you're crazy!
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I see PETA, with the "T" turned inot a dagger-shape. Patients Eradicate Therapeutic Assistants!

I was gonna say, "Beth, I hear you calling...," but Ed got it first.
"Don't mess with meth Beth, don't mess with meth SSeth, don't mess with meth...Gwynneth."
--Reno 911
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"The Silence of the Lambs"

"It puts the lotion into the basket or it gets the hose again!"
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Grifs, you could still stick your willy out of the slot!

Anyway, since deinstitutionalization, the "violent ward" patients are now housed in prisons in similar cells...except they're locked up 23 1/2 hours a day without even a semblance of therapy!