31 Comments Posted by subcoolman

And there hasn't been anything worth watching since.

Been over a year since I've been around. Nice to see new "faces" and pictures....

Anyway, this door simply broke at the stile, which is actually quite common.

But that takes nothing away from the picture.

Part of a variable inlet vane mechanism, used on the entering air side of a centrifugal fan, in order to control the total CFM the fan delivers. It's hard to tell which part this is, but if it's the "variable" part, the vanes would rotate via external linkage, and would be set via a locking hand quadrant. Since part of the locking quadrant seems to be in place, but is not linked to anything, this appears to be the non-adjustable part of the mechanism.

Nice picture.

The "cone shaped cutout in the back with a hole at the tip" is the business end of a burner. Pity you couldn't/didn't get pics of the other side as I am very curious as to the manufacturer of said burner....

Wonderful gallery!

Cold...

Interesting. A steam-powered, rather than electrical, air compressor installed in 1938 or thereabouts. Why steam? Hmmm....

Reclamation in progress....

Nice set Motts. Thank you.

RE: "...as well as containers full of used oil and other various waste fluids and chemicals."

Given the possibility of industrial chemicals being present in these containers, I sure hope they were not leaking.

In some ways it reminds me of the cover of Pink Floyd's "Animals"....

Looks like what's left of a generator, or at least the stator part. If this is right, it looks as though the rotor has been removed.

Why not? They sell soap dispensers on eBay....

(Sorry. I couldn't resist the temptation).

Been about 6 months since I've been here (Thanks for the new pics, Motts!), but DaveWilly owes me a new monitor due to the Dr. Pepper I just spewed from the soap dispenser crack!

Seriously, wonderful pictures. Glad to be back.

I just checked ebay (check this post date), and there is a slime-ball out there selling bricks from this place (and is pleading for "no negative feedback").

I just left him an email telling him in no uncertain terms what I thought of him and his profit-making venture.

Am I pissed-off? In a word: yes. In two words: Hell yes!

I dunno, everyone...

I can't "see" a bunch of patients dancing and living it up here. What I see in my minds eye are a bunch of half-alive patients being wheeled out to this pavillion by a well-meaning staff member, and then spending the evening staring blankly off into the distance as the band plays on.

To me this is the most profound and saddest picture I've seen on this site.

Back in college (mid '80's) I had a job working in a group home for autistic people. One of the by-products, or symptoms, of autism is self-mutilation, and we had a patient who frequently banged his head against the walls.

One day he discovered that the *corners* of the walls produced much better results....