3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

It probably turned the bath water to ice cold too, while they were being electroshocked and lobotomized at the same time.

It's a three-in-one switch.

"The South Bend plant ceased production on December 20, 1963, and the last Studebaker car rolled off the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, plant on March 16, 1966."

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker

Thank you very much for all the PSH information, it's quite interesting!

It was a hospital for people with developmental disabilities, not a psychiatric hospital.

http://www.historicaerials.com has a few dates to choose from.

I visited the site earlier this year - one building was gutted and even had a few claw foot bathtubs sitting atop a dumpster outside; everything else was demolished or re-purposed, except the main building which remains half-used.

Not sure, possibly a shelf for storing various tissues and organs that needed to be refrigerated.

The bottoms were flush with the floor, and I don't know what the bottle was for.

They are different heights, not sure why...

Thanks flushed; these particular photos are from the old buildings in back that were demolished in 2006. I managed to photograph the disused portion of the main building a few years ago, unfortunately it wasn't very interesting inside.

After WWII, the institution became a closed military zone and housed the central hospital for Soviet troops and politicians. Check out the history here: http://www.opacity.us/...litz_heilstatten.htm

There's usually a dank, musty, rotting wood odor inside the old buildings; newer facilities can be pretty odorless, or rank with a nasty mold / mildew smell depending on the humidity and ventilation inside. Attics are almost always a dusty-stuffy smell, and laced with a pigeon dropping stink depending on the temperature.

Hospitals often still have the scent of strong disinfectant I like to call a "hospital smell;" it's quite unpleasant but I think I've grown attached to it, for obvious reasons.

No the buildings were not heated; they are deteriorating more and more every year as well as being vandalized.

We had previous engagements with friends in Berlin, and even more to explore in our one remaining day in Germany. So on my return trip to Berlin, this hospital was definitely my first priority.

Yes, some of the spider webs here were pretty intense...

Yes these definitely looked out of place; I would guess that someone dragged them up from the basement.