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Maybe a bathroom?.....

Elvis has left this building!

Folks, that's nifty 50's all the way. Many bathrooms in Baltimore including my parents still have plumbing fixtures that look like this but not nearly as clean.

This is where I met my ex-wife back on Memorial Day in 1991!

Back in '88 a friend twisted my arm and I went to my first of five Jewish singles weekends in the Catskills. Three were at the Pines and the other 2 were at a smaller resort called the Tamarack Lodge. I had such a great time that I went to five of these shindigs. The girls from New York, and north New Jersey were hot, loved to wear short miniskirts and got a kick out of this Southern gentleman. Baltimore being south of the Mason Dixon Line. Though we are considered Mid Atlantic many still consider Baltimore to be a Southern city at heart. Meaning the New York Girls got a kick out of the way I TALKED! And it didn't hurt that I gave many massages. LOL I met my ex-wife at the Pines on my last trip Memorial Day Weekend 1991. We are still friends. Back to the Pines. The place was quirky cool. There was that aura of a place that was once great but fading. The food was fantastic and plenty of it. I believe the family that always owned the Pines owed too much in back taxes and had to close down the show. A shame, those weekends enabled singles who would never know each other existed had they not had the experience at the Pines and other Catskills resorts. This was at the cusp of the Internet age and just think if the Pines and these other places could have stayed alive. As nothing lives forever on the same token things come back and have at least another shot in the limelight. Generations of singles and others will never get a chance to share in this experience. I for one am thankful I had the opportunity. BTW, the "exercise room" and "health club," were reminants of the 1950's idea of health and fitness. They actually had two vintage "reducing belts!"

Motts, another gorgeous find.

wonderful shot.

I think many people in this wing or even this hospital were geriatric, so maybe they would still have belongings from these eras.

like the doors are welcoming you.
Great door photo

Yes, I try to stay as far away as possible though.

Yeah, that's why I kinda hurried up shooting this place... it wasn't easy to get into at all either, so it is very strange indeed.

Avalon Bay plans to re-use the central 1/3 of the Kirkbride building for apartments; everything else will be razed for condos (except the cemetaries).

Tanya, I would guess 14 years since it closed...

Aliester, thanks! I have quite a few photos to go through, and one basement room of a state hospital disturbed me greatly, perhaps one of those photos would be the most unnerving to me. I think the child's wheelchair in the playroom at Pennhurst would be the saddest to me: http://www.opacity.us/image2236.htm

I really don't know on this one... I don't think anyone else was in that wing when I took the photo.

It was a large envelope, blank and empty.