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You are not kidding, it is rusting & rotting away. Death from exposure is fitting here.
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As an OT student in about 1959, we used to lead our patients up stairs exactly like these to the huge rooms at the top of the towers where we had occupational therapy! I wish I could locate someone else to confirm these memories. Julie@zittels.com
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I worked as a TA in the Admissions Bldg as well as the bldg. next to it. I cannot remember which, but I think it was 121 and 122. I have to say that on my ward I never saw any abuse of any patients there. To see people allege this terrible abuse is appalling and insulting to those of us who worked there who really cared. I left the in 1986 to move out of state, but I always missed my job there. I still do. It was not an easy job and the guy in that video was dead on wrong. We had been attacked many times by patients and had to tackle them to the floor to restrain them for their safety and the safety of others. If we were not in danger, why did the state pay us Hazard Duty Pay? We tried talking them down, bribing with cigarettes anything, but have to tackle them, but sometimes we had to. We had to show some type of authority and firmness, but not abusiveness. I can't answer for all the bldgs., but on my ward, no abuse occurred. I wish people would stop making all TA's look bad. It wasn't like that everywhere. I'll bet some of those saying those things never even worked there!
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Thanks for the wallpaper!

And thanks for the trip! Awesome gallery.
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I guess vanished! Ceiling isn't looking too good either. I don't think I would have been able to make myself get this close...
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Haha!
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OMG never seen so much mold in one room!
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Nasty birds! Looks like you caught one in flight at the top of the third window.
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Did the small square in the door have a purpose? And the round one? In the before photo looks like a similar round "thing" on the transom too.
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Lonely toilet shot!
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Oh wow lighting is fantastic!
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Held up pretty well didn't it.
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Intact light fixture..no graff on the walls..awesome.
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Pretty heavy duty grate on that door. Tile that never falls off the walls too.
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Great lighting from those big ole windows. PIgeons and their droppings..ew.