275 Comments Posted by Sam

Wow, awesome photo. The divided color thing is very cool. =)

lol love that comment lynne =)

Good photo, sorta scary in a way, but not. At least they had windows, and a view. And it wasn't like the bars were huge.

Possibly they might have even gotten to go outside, at least bfeore underfunding became (once again) a problem.

This place reminds me strongly of a medievil fortress or castle. Well, except newer, and at least from this angle.

And reading the above comments just made this picture look very sick and wrong. *looks abashed*

....right...

Umm nice shot. Very interesting angle.

Now everything is coming out 'wrong' =P

Yeah...I think your right...

Yeah, your right.

lol.

Aww..thanks lynne..

=) you made me blush haha

There are always people who care, and there are always people who do not. There is always at least two sides to an interaction.

I'm on no one's side, but I see both. some institutes would be worse than others. Some would start off great, but go down hill.

One factor was probably funding, which resultied in staffing, care, and a million other problems.

Plus, back then (and even now) sometimes 'retarded' people are disreguarded, and disliked.

Personally, I like this photo. Perhaps the artist wanted to give the children something to dream about, or imagine. Perhaps a caring staff emember paid the artist out of their own miniscule wages to have something happy in what they knew were bad conditions.

Maybe it showed there is good, happy things.

Or maybe it was installed to make the children yearn.

I doubt the latter, but still.

It is amazing what a simple photograph can instill in us.

oh, and was there any criminally insane here? Because abuse (intentional or unintentional) cna go two ways occasionally.

No one is perfect. And no one should expect anyone to be.

Accidents happen, even now, in hospitals. not that staff means to do it, but it happens. I should know. My dad got injected the wrong thing and almost died, but the crash team or whatever saved him.

It was no one's fault, the nurse immediatly got help, so no harm was done. I cannot remember if she was punished or not.

But there have been others who go out of their way to help patients.

So no one should be bad mouthing anyone. There is always bad apples, and maybe we should all concentrate on the good and not the bad.

At least that is from my opinion.

I wasn't even alive when this thing was open, I don't think anyway.

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After seeing the "face" I am scared. I like feeling the excitement of the creepy lonely chair thing, but I really do believe that place is haunted. *shivers*

Wow. I love this shot. Seriously on my top 3. And that;'s a hard place to get. lol.

But seriously, this shot took my breath away. It must have been what the prisoners felt like...

Plus the foggyness, and the green with the wonderful, tall window. Just wow.

Great job.

Interesting shot. Nice angle, sort of showing that this place is old, and lonesome. Tom I think the original brick was painted over white, probably for a final seal or just cause they wanted everything to be white or whatever color it happened to be.

First glance I thought the red was dried blood or something similar. Also, it seems it's pretty scattered and messy for a prison cell. I wonder what everyone did, and if...no there probably WAS some innocent souls suffering in silence (or not) in there....

I noticed the crosses on the knobs of the staircase railing. Very awespiring picture. I think someone had fun and a reavalation day as the did the graffittii. It's still a form of art after all...

Great photo. Perfect black and white.

I wonder how long those curtains have been hanging, and if any prisoners wept their misery into the curtain's dusty threads? One thing to hold onto in the cell, a touch that could be homeyish.

I wonder how many tears were shed...

Amazing shot...You can almost see or hear the bustling busyness of nurses and doctors and caretackers hustling about through those doors. I wonder if it was actually pleasant or not...You can't always believe the stories.....

Creepy....

I'm sorry for being an iggnorant teenager but what is lobotomies? I cannot remember exactly what it is, though I'm guessing it's not the most pleasant of things...

Joe, some of these people may be semi-illiterate, and maybe didn't grasp the concept of "words dont always spell the way they sound" or something. Creepy and eerie shot though...good job...