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I've got mixed feeling about the "tags" all over. On one hand the place is in ruins anyways. They will end up demolishing these buildings and putting up expensive housing.

It also emphasizes the neglect and the human tendency to close ones eyes to a shaded past. How could these vast buildings be left to rot? Its a shame and the debris and trash left behind proves to me that pushing these people out of hospitals was a rushed job.

Grant you, the dream of making a nuturing secure place for the mentally ill was a good one but it falls short. Anywhere you have a large amount of human beings in an institutional setting you will find cruelty and abuse.

Long story short.. the defacing of these buildings seems predictable. Its rebellious. The abandoned buildings represent institutions and getting lost in the red tape as well as falling short of good intentions. Welcome to the modern world.

Thad,
What was it you were cooking?

My experiment!!! You ruined it!

I agree with Jill B-- it's some sort of vacuum device.

The electric motor below used a (now-missing) belt to drive the vacuum pump at top. Looks like a valve above the pump, there. The right hand side held some sort of glass jar, as Jill says.

As for its medical use... I really can't imagine...

this take me back to some good day at byberry

its like home again

Hiram Abiff ?!

yeek!!

How about taking a nice stroll through there with your girlfriend?

Residences like this were probably built by the state as housing for administrators, doctors, etc. and were perhaps leased. When the state closed the facility the residences were left empty.

Neuweiler, try putting up floodlights and fencing. That *shoot-first* bullshit is just that, bullshit. If you spent a mere fraction of your *restoration* costs on lighting and fencing, you wouldn't have these problems. A seven-dollar-an-hour guard might be a wise consideration as well. If it doesn't "appear" abandoned, folks won't break in.

Wow.That's what I call a decent living:-)Thanks for showing us who live to far away to see it with our own eyes:-)

I must admit that when I saw the first picture in this batch,I thought it was a medieval themed amusement park:-)Before you laugh I must say that I'm not American,so I had not heard of this place before.
So the Enchanted Forest feel is quite understandable to me:-)

Well,they sure wasn't people of small gestures,but I kind of think that's a cool approach.

I can't really understand that someone lived here...:-O