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"Time for a spot of tea....will you be having one lump or two?" : )

I was there the night they were claning out this building (Tanking my own set of photos, of the complex and some of its demolition) and yes they were basically throwingstuff out the windows. I spoke with the forman who said they were mearly cleaning out old debris and espestosis. The building as far as i know was not marked for demolition, as the center stip of the campus is still used and operated by the state and the OMH. The admin building is still used to store stuff in and some times the lights are on inside and can be seen from the sagtikos pwky. As for Bldg 23 and the admid/surgical hospital, they are still there, most of the buildings behind them are still used or in some way operated. the dormatories to the flanking sidea have all been torn down. This was over a year and 1/2 ago, and the rubble still sits there, sort of an erie marker or grave yard to where buildings once stood. Items can still be found inside the debris fields such as wall paintings that somehow survived the destruction. the land contractor wants to put in condos or town houses to the left, a strip mall and aquarium to the right. but since these dorms had been ripped down, no futher advance was made to build these new condos. Now i wonder, who's gonna want to live in a townhouse that stares out at an active psych hospital or go to an aquarium where no large body fo water is present. I went inside the buildings after the doards had been taken down, and they were in amazing shape. it was shuch a waste to destroy them. As for this building, they cleaned it and have left it sitting there with all the old stuff (bedposts, matresses,etc) still sitting outside. I hope they don't tear down these buildings and hopefully find use for them, but their future at the moment is unsure, as long as the stae has control they'll sit there.

one note short of an octave.
weird.
unless if its just the angle

and i would want to go down this hallway because???

Hey, if you ever publish a book with your photography, make THIS the cover.....with a very dark title like what my friend calls urban decay exploration....going Into the Abyss of Decay (you can have that one; a simple thanks inside would be enough).

"Hey, where do these stairs go?" "They go up." - from Ghostbusters.

Ever come across medication bottles with drug names on them? (I'd assume that part of the shutdown would usually require removal of all pharmaceuticals from the premises) Like empty bottles or shelf labels or the like?

I've seen those before....usually in factories and other places with large Cathedral-height windows. As I'm sure you could guess, the one pulley opens all of the window vents at once....one wouldn't really WANT to have to climb all that way up to open or close each of those vents separately....a waste of time.

LOVE the motto on the scale! ;)

"No springs. Honest weight." Yeah....people would just "love" to read that one!

i've been into the parts of pilgrim state that kids break into the freakiest stuff i have even seen in my life..

PSSSST! What's the secred password?

Hmmmmm.......really makes one wonder what they're serving in the cafeteria if the morgue is in the same building. Don't eat the daily special! LOL!

Here's an interesting perspective on Asylums, focussing on Northampton in a few places.

http://cssvc.health.webmd.compuserve.com/content/article/29/1728_67929

Hope they donate those to some medical school(s)....would be sad to destroy all that information.

I love the view of the trestle behind the newer building and the lush landscape behind it....if that got converted to condos or something, could be a nice photo for the ad!