3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

Hrm, I think summer 2003 or 2004. It hasn't really changed since then.

You might be interested in [ this photo ] as well.

I knew someone would know, thanks for the interesting info SinNombre!

Hah, sometimes I catch myself talking in prose when going through my photos, very embarrassing.

Yeah, it was probably used for special events, but I wonder if the patients saw this room at all, especially after the place became a psychiatric institute. It was most likely an employee dining room when something else wasn't going on.

That's just Lanky...

So it's a medical vaccum pump, not something you'd use to clean up, say, spilled Cheerios?

From the photos I've seen, it did look OK on opening day (even though the architecture is quite bland and does resemble a slaughterhouse in many ways), but as time went on it got pretty bad. I'll see if I can scan in some photos from the Times article on Byberry, there's a few photographs of the patients living in their own filth inside rooms like these.

Wow, thanks guys!

Heh, cool. What's back there, postal services?

Let us know when demoliton begins! 8]

Nope... it was a guess.

Ah, that sucks about the arrest... Drie's a really cool person, you'll have a blast at the places she frequents!

I'll admit, the wheelchair was slightly behind the door in the shadows, so yes I moved it up a little.

Thanks, I think any photo of a wheelchair lit in a dark room will be forever tainted by that movie though... heheh.

Thank you Jeanne

Yeah I asked someone about that, the law was passed a while back, when refrigerators latched closed (now they use a weak magnet to seal the doors).

A little research revealed that refrigerator doors manufactured prior to 1958 had mechanical latches which were impossible to open from the inside. Kids would wind up playing in discarded refrigerators and wind up locking themselves in; the sealed door prevented and screams from being heard, and they would eventually suffocate. The New York Times published a figure of 115 children dying this way in over a decade long period before 1955.

Congress passed the Refrigerator Safety Act in 1956, and attempts to smash the latches off the remaining unused refrigerators has since minimized these incidents.

But, this law only applies to household refrigerators, not commercial or morgue freezers.