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the reason people strip the copper is becuase it canbe melted down and recycled. salvage yard will by big bucks in bulk

Hey i actually live not to far from Letchworth and i was kinda curious if anyone knew the story behind the asylum....cuz i know it was abandoned but why?

I do love the rest of this place, this one walkway seems cheap and out of place with all the older buildings though!

Aw, hey guys don't beat on poor XX state hospital... :(

WE WERE THERE LAST NIGHT TOO! and almost got arrested but thats not important

Nauseous, you goose! Of course we pay attention to people in hospitals. You learn pretty quickly what is real and what is delusional for each person. Besides, visual hallucinations are pretty rare - they are associated more with organic conditions and hallucinogenic drugs, so if someone says they see something in an adjacent building and it is someone who has never talked about a visual hallucination before you would certainly check it out. Of course, this is assuming you have enough assigned staff to do it and take care of the folks on your caseload at the same time, which is more of a concern.

Em . . . not to sound pushy, but we are ready for them right now. ;-)

Most large institutions now have back-up generators for power outages, especially institutions that have folks with medical conditions. As well, most (all?) areas are issued LOTS of flashlights (big 'uns) to use in the case of a power outage and they are supposed to test them monthly.

If you mean that little white blob under the middle window (unboarded) sitting on the pile of bricks, I'm thinking it looks more like a light up snowman with a stick to roast marshmallows (with a red scarf around his neck and red buttons). But then I am a clinical psychologist, so I get paid to look for odd things like that. ;-)

Nope, it's perfect. :-)

I admit I have never seen a curved walkway before. It's interesting that at least two different facilities made use of this. It does look pretty cool. The idea of a carved wood walkway makes me salivate. :-(

Cyrus, Motts, Radical Ed, Goddog et al. - what's the deal with the copper? I see the comments about it being stripped out of old buildings and sold. Is this the tubing or what all is in old buildings that is made of copper? I mean, is it large objects or are we talking thousands of feet of pipes or something? Obviously there is some sort of market for it. And is there any chance of asbestos or anything nasty being associated with it? Seems like there could be a lot of potential for danger in stripping it out. Just curious.

This whole building was a statement. Basically showcasing the money they had spent on "care of the mentally ill". But what went on in there was sick. as RD said, the major pharmacutical companies at the time (the building opened in 1950), needed labrats so we today could benefit from such spectacular drugs as boner pills and birth control, among many others. All the "psycoactive" drugs we have today came at the cost of many lives from this building and all like it throughout the country. Hence the reason for an autopsy room with student seating, and a good size morgue, 10 on ice at a time. What a shame

Ooops! Sorry, "~Me"! I shoulda read ahead!

People haven't inserted items into the mouths of people having seizures in many, many years because it is dangerous, both to the inserter and the insertee. The inserter can get bit (and the person having the seizure is usually unable to open their mouth to let go after clamping down) and the person having the seizure can potentially have their teeth broken when the "helper" tries to cram a hard object in between their clenched teeth or they can choke to death on the item if you can actually get it in their mouth.
Just an FYI. :-)