77 Comments Posted by jane

joe, I would imagine they had abandoned hope long before they got here. They were, after all, suffering from a largely incurable illness.

it reminds me of the barn at an old tb Hospital where I once worked in Maryland (now a gleaming life care center). The lovely victorian barn that had once housed the hospital's cattle and pigs burned rather spectacularly back in the eighties. Combing through the wreckage a few days later, I found 1 1/2 inch iron rods that had tied the frame together. The fire had been so hot that the rods became molten and as they fell, they assumed the shape of whatever timbers they had hit on the way down.

wow, that is old, isn't it? That looks like the sediment bulbs they used to put on carbeurators before they invented fuel filters.

dental suction maybe? You know, the spit sucker they stick in you mouth to keep the area where they are working dry?

ooohh, Toy Story II anyone? What was the name of the creepy neighbor kid who tore all his toys apart and glued them back together in creepy combinations? The spider with the doll's head?

Tumbleforms makes some pretty cool equipment. My toddler, who has had a stroke, has a lot of fun in therapy with this stuff. It makes me sad to think of all the kids in third world countries that don't have basic medical care, let alone therapy, who could be using this stuff.

"Going off," or "Going off the head," were terms that the kids used in the home for troubled youth where I taught. They all did it pretty regularly too.

yep, exactly the same uncomfortable plywood seats with beautiful ornamental cast iron supports. our building was built in 1827, so I guess this is in the ballpark of the same age. please excuse my typing, i'm not illiterate, just typing around a cat.

the junior high where I last taught had exactly those seats.

Beautiful as always, my friend. Just out of curiosity, do you ever get tempted to sit in the lonely chairs, just to give them a purpose again? I know I would...

EWWWW, but the GERMS, the GERMY GERMS! Asbestos! Lead Paint Dust! Just Plain Yucky Water that Seeped Through the Roof and Ceiling! Ickk

somehow it is almost as creepy to think about "sane" people playing paintball in an abandoned asylum as it is to think about the insane people there before it closed.

why is there ductwork on a porch?

so, did this place start life as a TB sanitarium too?

are you suggesting that Mr. Motts lacks the experience to recognize a brassiere when he sees one?

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I would guess that it was as much to keep the weather out while they decided what to do with it as to keep people out. They probably didn't want people breaking the windows either.