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Fuckin' thanks, Motts!!! I WAS just going to go outside to smoke a cigarette!!!!! hahahaha!
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Are those orbs I see at the end of the corridor?? I just found out my nephews went there unknown to me.I freaked..Because I was left out I didn't know they were so slick. BUT was even more surprized when the photos on their cellphone showed many orbs in one of the pictures ,But even more so shocked when shown one that appeared with a face of something dark peeking around a corner. it was a very clear picture and yes the eyes were red.I would not have believed this if I had not seen it myself yesterday.IT was not the face of a sweet angel I can tell ya..I can only testify of what I saw in the photo but I think places of tragedy are a magnet for dark entities.Proceed with caution! Hopefully I can convince my nephew to let me post this photo for others to see.

Oh, THIS is where "Lord Motts" came from! 8`-)

Oh, the irony..

This type of tub is used for people who are nonambulatory, so they can't slip because they can't walk. This helps staff not have to bend over to the ground when placing the person in the tub and taking them out, and is usually used in conjunction with a mechanical lift of some sort. If the person you bathe is nonambulatory and/or you use a lift to get them in the tub, you really want these to be situated higher up to save your aching back (and so they have less far to fall if there is some sort of freak accident and the lift breaks). And it reduces the rate of accidents for the bathers as well because you are less likely to drop the person if you aren't straining your back as much.

See:
http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/spd/provtools/dd/safety_design/bath.shtml

As regards the curtains, sometimes the fixtures were situated higher up than you are able to see in this picture (you can't believe how high the ceilings are in most of these places) and sometimes they made use of frosted glass in the outside windows, especially if they were located on a higher floor. People don't frost glass for privacy much these days, but in years past it was a surprisingly common thing for even "normal" people to do, surprising to me because you can see anyone's outline if it is dark outside and light in the room they are in.

Motts..Thank you so much for letting those of us that want so much to get in there and feel the experience within its walls.An upclose enough glimpse as close as we may ever get considering the situation this haunting but beautiful historic building is facing.DO you have any knowledge of exactly when it will be demolished? And one question that is driving me crazy is..The photos that show the exposed windows against the dark backgrounds.Why are they not boarded up like the others?.I noticed some of them are totally blown out. This is all so incredible ..Thanks alot ! Tara

Methinks I wouldn't wanna test the floors here, for sure.

i posted some of the pics online here
http://spaces.msn.com/mem ... gmt&_c=blogpart

Macro!

AutumnTwin, I had the very same thought! Dear Mr. Motts must be very courageous indeed.

Being that this was a TB hospital, my guess would be "no."

Where was this in relation to the "potholes" and "warped collapes" wings?

Was it too hazardousl to photograph the "warped collapse" wing or the "potholes" wing from the first floor?

This looks like a shot from a Hitchcock movie or something. Beautiful and disturbing at the same time

Check out the Willard State Hospital exhibition on suitcases of former residents who died and whose belongings were never claimed. Fascinating, if a little one-sided and heavy on the bathos. I dislike that because it reduces people to pitiful one-dimensional victims and robs them of their true humanity, but that's just me. It's certainly less stressful to look at life in black-and-white . . .

Very brave to get close to a hole like that. Weren't you worried about the floor surrounding that hole collapsing while you were standing on it?