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April, 1993.

I try to approach the security guards (not the police). Some of them are pretty nice. I met some nice demolition guys who brought a 106 year old pew out of an abandoned catholic school to my house!

Do you know when this place closed?

This hospital is actually patrolled by a private security company, who was driving around the buildings furiously; this local cop was just reading the newspaper in a shady spot.

The hospital reached it's peak population at over 9,000 patients in 1954.

Seems sich ashame to just let buildings like this rott away..........

this is a really big place, do you know how many patients it housed when in full operation?

i really like this picture

Can't believe thats all they have to do, patrol abandoned property.

This room is so untouched

wow, i love this picture, so cute that he stayed still for you to get the pic lol. Your pics are the best!

Cwalters is correct, it is indeed an Amsco 1080 operating table. These were quite pricey back in its days, and are extremly rare now.
(http://www.medicalrepaircenter.com/tables.htm)

Yeh. Would live in that house any day..
How come its abandoned?

The facility was designed to house 15,000 patients during its peak operation.

These half-walls are called "pony walls" and are now illegal according to the new Life Safety Code for institutions (fire code problems). They were used to partition off the room into smaller sections so you could still see what was going on in the rest of the room but you could still section them off for separate activities. They used to do something similar in public schools in the late 70s through 80s until they realized that the ability to see and hear everything going on in the rest of the room was distracting to just about everyone involved and pure hell for the ADHD kids.