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I tend to check out this site from time to time to see what is new with the old hospital. For at least 10 years this hospital has drawn my attention and it totally makes me upset that there is talk of tearing down the buildings, not preserving them as museum or having some type of county funded ghost tours. What I do not understand is like what sandy above wrote, how did you get the pictures? Do you work for MCPPC? I know back in my younger years and we went to the sight, cops would be on our tale within a matter of minutes, what makes you so special to get these pics? How did you not get caught. And because you have all this information, are you going to try to have the county preserve this historical ground or just let it get bull-doze when they put in the old folks home or the golf course. My last question, how come we can talk to you via email or chat? How will our questions be answered? Your site is not interactive. I am very curious being a PG county native for 26 years and a teenage who did the same thing about 10 years ago.

It is weird though to look at the O'Boyle site and see just how much some of the ships have endured (the ferry, the red ship above and the Abram Hewitt have barely changed) whilst others have disintegrated and collapsed and are barely recognisable. And Motts, did you see the big white vessel 'Astoria' - and if so, what the hell was it? I do love the remains of the wooden ships on that site, their skeletons rotted right down to the waterline, and the contrast of the site at low tide, which reveals that in contrast, the steel boats fare much worse below the water than above it.

The red ship is impressive and I agree with Twug, it almost looks as though she could be pumped out and refloated...

Looks like someone finally flipped, tired of marking the days in scratches on the wall, and trashed the place in a fit of frustration...

I remember seeing a documentary about how one of these fireboats was restored, pumps, engines and all - that one was on the Thames in London though.

reminds me of Rocky Horror Picture Show....nice work though

They really did do things differently back then didn't they...

It definitely looks medical rather than decorative. Particularly when you consider that ambient illumination probably would have been provided by the fluorescent box to the bottom left hand corner of the shot.

Things like this always weird me out.

Cleaned up, that would fetch a bit of money, what with the current craze for those massive retro SMEG fridges in pastel colours just like this one. It would be cool to have the real thing.

These are incredible - and still so shiny. They must weigh an absolute ton... not surprised they were left in situ.

Ummm.... priorities!?!

What I mean is that Anna, you're right, it's as incongruous here as a snowball in the desert. You'd think that trying to make fat people thin would be fairly low down the list of 'things that mattered' in a mental institution! In a place where relatively little of the outside world made it through the walls and grilles, it's odd that modern society's obsession with weight loss and thin-ness should present itself even in the darkest corners...

I guess it could have been for the use of the nurses rather than the patients... but either way it looks like some kind of barbaric torture instument!

It is haunted from all of the stories i know of. See they never really list the complete history of these buildings, not only was it a small pox hospital but a TB hospital, and a Insane Asylum at one time. Al capone was sent there as well after he went crazy from Sypillhis

Its like this in the hospital i work at too rich. The lobby is all hard wood floors with massive, beautiful fish tanks everywhere, and the patient floors look like a fifties nightmare gone wrong, lol

rich,

im very sure there where staff that cared very deeply for their patients. I know that i do. It sure isnt the pay that keeps me going back to the hospital every day.

or really sharp spoons, :-)