3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

Well, I think this was a daycare building for the staff and visitor's kids, not a psychiatric treatment building.

But anyway, many parents cannot handle taking care of a child with severe mental problems, especially when they require constant medical or psychological attention. If your doctor strongly recommends you put your child in an institution, you would do what you thought was best for your kid, perhaps many parents thought this way.

When the child was in the hands of the state, there wasn't much a parent could do; they didn't know what happened in these places... so I don't think they are to blame in all cases.

Only a few rooms still had working lights.

I thought of the sewing thing too, because it looks like there's a spool of thread in the center, but it's actually gauze wrapped around a pole. There are two stirrups on either side, so I ruled that out pretty quick.

I went back and pushed it into a more spacious room, it might be easier to get a grasp on what it is when I post those photos up.

Y'know what, I'm going to find a really cool light over a sink that isn't a soap dispenser, and we'll see who's laughing then, huh?!

The sticker reads, "I love your smile", most likely an encouragement to brush one's teeth, which might not have been the easiest task to perform every day.

I would've liked to see that model!

You want to find out what's at the other end!

Sure, I've been in one room that had about an inch on pills on the floor... I've also seen numerous medication bottles that were still filled, some had patient names and dosages still intact. I've even seen a prescribed container of Thorazine at a state school.

No, it's a reflection of a street lamp, but the lights were on in the back of this administration building.

Thanks to http://www.institutionalgreen.com :

Some answers for your pondering regarding the use of "Institutional Green" paint in hospitals, asylums, clinics and the like.

The actual color is chrome green:

From the National Contractors Referral and Liscencing Bureau

Chrome Green. Mixture of chrome yellow and Prussian blue, one of industry's most important green pigments.

Chromium Oxide Green. Green pigment which is extremely permanent in color and has good resistance to both alkali and heat.

It is an important color because old technology paint pigments were typically made from the chemicals which produce a desired color as a product of their reactive properties. Chromium oxide has a range of vivid colors from orange to yellow and to a lesser extent, green. Prussian blue (I believe) is a derivative of a iron oxide (not regular old Fe02, which is rust), I am not positive of the specifics that produce that color.

Chrome green was used for a number of reasons. It is extraordinarily tough, and resistant to chemical breakdown. This would protect certain body chemicals, like stomach acid, from harming finished surfaces in a given facility. Additionally, it's toughness lends itself to resistance from pathogens and other foul types of toxicology. It's natural hardness makes it an easy surface to clean. Lastly, it's color vividly contrasts with blood, both fresh and dried.

It was originally considered to be a soothing color, but given the nature of hospitals and other such institutions, it got linked to a color or insanity or medical incarceration. Once modern paint technology evolved to the point where we didn't have to rely on complex, and sometimes hazardous chemical reactions for durable finishes the color was retired.

Yeah, it was a catholic high school... the tower might've been for water or for asthetic value. Now it's all rotted out and empty.

It's actually right in the middle of town, there's just a lot of property out back.

I will be setting that up very soon.

Heheh, I knew you'd say that! This place might've been worse than Metro ;-)

It's on my to-do list!

No, that isn't the real name of the school.