767 Comments Posted by flushed

The pic looks depressing more because it is black and white than the decay of the place. That courtyard was designed to be a pleasant place. Those steps and the courtyard itself are white marble and the area was surrounded by a lawn and trees. The quality of the construction was top notch. The darkness you perceive came there with the people who were hired to fill the service jobs that keep large hospitals running. There was a general sense of nastiness to them from my perspective. They hated anything that looked good because it somehow triggered introspection in them and this was very uncomfortable, painful, and confusing to them. They blamed this pain and confusion on those whom they perceived to have built the place and hired them to work there. As you might suspect this made them angry and they took it out on the patients they could determine by illegally using the records and disembling with the doctors, were helpless to defend themselves and had no family that might figure out something was wrong.
That is the evil ("thats depressing") you see there, the building itself is actually quite an attractive and an amazing acheivment in design and construction.

Hey Maxx, were you on Carpenter St in those apartments?

I could swear that desk was placed there for use when this place was active. I'm not sure about the one standing on end, I remember having to do something down there near that yellow room. at that desk, I don't recall being allowed into the room. Maybe that one on end was placed as if to block off the width of the hall. Yea that's it. It would be 90 degrees to the other desk closer to the camera and against the opposite wall under the window.

Devil Antics I had a great laugh.
Those tunnels were multi purpose. They had to be large enough to do maintenance and they were also designed for underground travel between buildings in all seasons. They were used for patient transport and for us children to come from the shelter to the hospital to eat. They had lights, I was told the adolescents broke them out of bitterness and frustration with the world. When we used them the lights were out and they were not much cleaner and got just as wet. The older kids used the darkness as cover to do their dirty work and keep up the intimidation that place ran on. They stopped letting the volunteers take us children to use the tunnels on the way to eat after one day someone much older terrorized me right at the point where light ran out and blackness took over, I was 4ish and I screamed and screamed and screamed until all the children became frightened in the darkness. I was chastized and punished for it.

That is an unraveled window shade they are laying on.

Person,
it's a six panel, with horizontal panels, door.

The pain was peeling when I lived there in the 60's, not that bad but bad enough that it made you feel icky for being there.

I was on my back strapped in so I could not moved.

I spent a very long mind numbing, soul destroying and lonely time strapped to one of these gurney's there. I was 5, I think I was on it for a year or more it certainly felt it. Maybe this is the one. I was injured by a fellow child who assaulted me. Broken Neck.

MVH let me enlighten you. That simplicity and carelessness with files. That lax attitude is what gave cover to the lowlifes that abused children in this place and institutions all over the country. Technology has finally provided a solution to the "lost" records problem.
The hallway also looks familiar like it is either the school or maybe the Administrsation area. Man that color green was all over everything then. They evben tiled the main building up to 6 feet off the tiled floors with tiles that color. I hated it, the walls seemed so dirty all the time even tho they washed them down fairly often, they just seemed dirty.
Funny story, I got some paint a last year on sale and painted my interiors with it and halfway thru I realized it was the same color ! It didn't bother me tho. Looking at that picture my green is a lot less blue, phwoosh missed it by that much:-}

reminds me of the school again.

Looks like one of the classrooms. There was a lot of built in wood work all real nice quality like what you see there. it gave me some comfort in a very cold and ugly place to see the craftsmanship and look at the intriicacy's of the joinery. I tried to figure out how everything was put together. I wanted to be a carpenter.

I see that and I think school. I am pretty sure that is the school we attended.

That looks like the tunnel we used to go back and forth from the childrens shelter. each meal. we ate in the hospital. It was pretty run down then too. Mid 60's

I see a humidifier for an oxygen lead. Picture a large beaker of sterile water in the C with the top just above down on it. The a hose coming from the tube projecting from it. The pulley behind was probably the pump for the process.