The bowling alley and other such amenities were there for the residents to get activity and socialising. The cost once installed would just be maintenance which as you see was done well.
In the 70's as story after story of hideous abuses were reported and factors like people with mental illness who could actually live on their own being among them the nation pretty much emptied most of its psychiatric hospitals and the former residents now live with family or on their own with subsidies or on the streets as homeless.
I do not know that is how this place came to be empty, I haven't read Mott's whole story on it yet. But in general that is why bowling alleys and other things in these places get left to decay.
sometime sit takes me hours on the web- it has become a one uppance to Motts if he puts on a pseudo- at first i just admired the galleries but turned into a hunt for the mysterious + will visit there if I can
I find it hard to relate to the beauty of these ruins. Although you are a very talented photographer & I'm excited w/ what you chose to photograph it is hard to romanticize if you spent time in C.I.
Ohhh, dear, you did? ACE wanderer!! WOW. Excellent - me, not YET.
Thank you so much, Mr.Motts - awesome photo-project really! As always.
.......makes me pule, a bit, though:
Is not Bowling Set-up an expensive Event??
All this Money spent. And it did not work out, did it?
The phone numbers on the score sheet are interesting with the prefix Wabash and Spring 92x-xxxx and 77x-xxxx respectively. The old "telephone exchanges" were replaced by area codes all over the U.S. by 1966 much earlier on the east coast and inside the "rust belt". Nice New Gallery. Thanks!
In the 70's as story after story of hideous abuses were reported and factors like people with mental illness who could actually live on their own being among them the nation pretty much emptied most of its psychiatric hospitals and the former residents now live with family or on their own with subsidies or on the streets as homeless.
I do not know that is how this place came to be empty, I haven't read Mott's whole story on it yet. But in general that is why bowling alleys and other things in these places get left to decay.