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Hey wanderer - did you find Rathen State Hospital in your quest for more understanding of the topic?
Although Google Earth has NO Street View `Click to Go´ here - YET - the holes in the roof are clearly noticeable......visible...

I believe the square box on the ceiling is a light.

Nah... it looks painted shut too.

I'm guessing it's a door to a circuit breaker panel. The small door would let someone safely reset a breaker, and the large one for a service worker to access the components under the panel, without having to break through the wall.

Don´t suppose you DID open that door, Mr. M.?
Wonder what is behind. They sure did have slick minds,back in the days;
now - why open a whole big door, when you may open a little, to see what you need to see....awesome crafty really!

......pigeon-crap: - is an excellent fertilizer -
The overseer, from #25, could collect it and sell it, in brown paper-bags:
"PRIMA NORTHAM MANOR FIRST QUALITY GUANO"

Her eyebrows look nice. :)

Thanks for the new gallery

This place was nasty when I worked there in the 80s. lots of stories.

Hey wanderer!
- wonder if you have found this place also?
Google Earth has street view `Click to go´ - and it is quite a handsome building.

I have been checking out your photo galleries here for the past couple weeks. I have to say, I LOVE YOUR PHOTOS!

I was going to say it is probably be an accounting function, and looks like they're tab stops - doing columns of numbers on a manual typewriter is the suck.

I'm putting 50 bucks down on it being a Royal (probably a KHM).

American Machine and Foundry (AMF) Wikipedia article talks about pinsetters.

hi patrick, do you know gaebler school girl.? I think you two where there simultaneously for a short time.

The access hole was more of an opening for the infrastructure for the building (HVAC, electricity, etc); a bit of a squeeze and you dropped into the sealed up bowling alley on the lower floor. A super fun way to get in!

Darlene - I thought the same when I stumbled upon my first one, but they have since kept popping up in other psychiatric hospitals. I suppose it's been proven to be a pretty safe, fun indoor sport that can appeal to many people.

I remember these rooms too I was in there many times