583 Comments Posted by mike

Same here, I can tell this is going to be favorite already. The lobby actually looks in very good shape.

Looking at this again, I don't notice any signs of HVAC or steam heat. I would think that a 200 yard hallway where the walls are mostly single pane glass would get pretty chilly in a Michigan winter.

Motts, were the holes in the ceiling going through to the outside? It looks like a little light coming through, but the normal piles of rubble aren't present. In most of your pics when there is a hole to the outside there is a neat pile of debris under it. Thanks for the new pics!

my mom is an ex employee of pigrim state she worked there for almost 15 years.She used to pick up the dead bodies from all over the grounds then bring them to this room.Then they would go in the refrigerator, which is right behind that metal bed in the pic.From there the mortician would put them on that table, drain there blood out of there bodies, pull out all experimental parts including brains and organs (which from there my mother took the brains to the world trade center, she did a lot of the driving for patients and other things she was friends with the mortician whose name was fred), they took a lot of the bodies over to the cemetary that was also on the grounds called the cemetary of the good samaritan.She told me it was really inhumane how they would bury these bodies sometimes, being alot of the time patients had no one who cared for them no family or anything, anyway they would bury them in heavy corrugated cardboard boxes and move them by forklift through the center to the cemetary.And sometimes the boxes got damp from the moisture in the top shelf of the store house (she doesnt remember the number of the building but it was located by work control which she thinks was building 36) and sometimes the bodies would fall through the box and between the forks of the forklift.She said this was rare but it happened sometimes.Anyone who reads this who is also an ex employee who knows what she is talking about is gonna know she was either a groundskeeper or garage help.But she said it was a screwed up place it was a disgusting place and a horrible place to work or have to call home.I live 20 mins away from all these buildings so she takes me on tours sometimes, shes got a lot of experience and she was like the only she there so any other ex employee...your probaly right about who your thinking this woman is.she worked ther 1976 to 1989.good day guys.

Motts - You have taken a lot of power plan shots over the years, but do you often run into one with so much coal remaining? In the pictures I have seen there doesn't seem to be any trace of coal remaining.

More than likely they would have been pulled out for scrap. All that stainless has probably already been made into yet another fast food hamburger warmer.

For a dropped ceiling they really didn't drop it very far... Looks like it is only 1-2 feet lower and still creates a 12' ceiling. That wouldn't have made a difference in heating or cooling.

I wonder if that room smelled worse than room #1? hehe.

The soap dispenser is a running joke from an old gallery.

That is likely just normal HVAC. The large insulated pipe going in the side would have been from the chiller.

This place is amazing and even with the poop looks to be in really good shape.

Talk about lonely. The table even made its way to the pallets hoping someone would come along and take it away!

We had these at my elementary school too. what is missing is the center column that has the spray heads. Ours were activiated by a ring around the base that you stepped on, but these don't look like they would have used that.

Those were some tough lightbulbs to change!

Looks like water had started getting from the roof. I bet the room has started to crumble by now.