44 Comments Posted by Michael

WOW THAT CHAIR IS SCARY!

Very sad. :-(

Looks like a film from the late 60s.

It does look like a chin strap to me too.

I am a lurker, on this site, so you guys don't see much of me, but this is very disturbing. I feel sad for students like that. Just think that they have to live like that. Its soooo sad. :-(

Perhaps Taylor Miles would sing a different song had he spent his life controld wirhin these walls?

Beware of the "State" you may find yourslf incarcenated in such a place one day.

I wonder how many lives were lost within this confinement? How does one justify fourty or fifty years in a hospital withonly a blank folder to state their treatment during hte time they where there.

i doubt kppc nugz did anything people would come running fast and it could damage it but turning it off is like turning off a switch on is alittle more complicated

I remember going to Welfare Island about 1960 because my maternal grandfather was a terminal patient at Bird S Coler hospital also on the island. My father took us to the end where the old hospital was and he seemed to be very interested in the old bldg but didn't share why
It was 30 yrs later as I did a family tree that I discovered that my paternal grandfather died at Metropolitan Hospital in 1935
In 1961 there was still debris from the old hospital around like wooden wheel chairs and old equipment , probably because it really looked like a haunted house in those days

I worked there, too:
http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=29

It's not the same dental chair, but it still brings back memories:
http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=26

I worked there -- behind that door was a small room, furnished with a metal bed that we would tie the patients to when they needed to be restrained. We'd actually always leave the door open when somebody was tied to the bed, and they'd be watched the entire time to make sure they didn't struggle too much or get free or manage to hurt themselves.

I worked there, too, which I'm sporadically documenting:
http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=21

Well.........today i took those columns home, bought them........they are 27.8 ft tall and weigh appr. 8000 lbs each! They are simply wonderful!
And the curved railing (which I also bought has a spiral staircase going under the jail, lots of little rooms down there.