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Such a shame to see such a beautiful building fall to pieces like this.

when i was there in 2004 the dummy was laying on a stretcher or tble of some sort in the center of the gym surrounded by a circle of chairs.

Spent whole summers at Sunnycroft, 1957-1965, and more time 1966-1970. Mike deMello - would love to chat. Loved Lynn, Sylvia and Joe. Rich Unger - knew you, Annette, Mike, Morty et al. Last time I saw Annette we played tennis at the ranch. contact me at frogdbs@mac.com

Ah, yes! The lone chair. And nice windows....Very nice windows!

Lovin the doors and the green forest! Great photo, Motts!

I'm looking forward to this large gallery, Motts! I'm hopinng there are some staircases somewhere in all these photos! : )

This is really a picture of an old Bucyrus-Monighan walking dragline draw works. Possibly a model 9W

I was there. I was a fifteen year old, obviously misplaced, and not really hebephrenic schizophrenic after all. I had a nervous giggle, but none of the other symptoms.
I need to set things straight about the ice baths, altho someone already wrote there were none. The idea came from the iced sheets they used to wrap us in.
Actually, I had only one fateful weekend on Hydro, due to my acting up and my regular shrinks being off ot an event--and there was no such thing as privacy. They lined a group of us up against the wall stark naked, and then one by one we went into the hydrotherapy room. I remember the day they wrapped me in those frozen sheets. I had heard about it from some of the attendants. It was supposed to relax me and put me to sleep. The sheets are bound tightly with your arms at your side and no way to move your legs and feet, and it feels oh so cold. Then, a warmth starts to flow through your body from head to toe, and you want to close your eyes. Me, being a teenager and a rebel to boot, I refused to yield to the sensation. I recited large segments Edgar Allen Poe in my head--mostly The Raven and Annabelle Lee. I never slept. But I talked to an attendant or two who confessed to submitting to such a treatment just for its positive, relaxing effects. It wasn't a bad thing if you had control of your situation. The worse of this place was the attendants inability to see us a people, not cattle, and the fact that we had no control over our lives.
Of course, these cold pack treatments could have been worse. I understood that this is how things began for those who had electrodes attached to their heads and administered the 'shock' of shock treatments.
The end.

Look at the previous pic. I see 2 of them on top of the bearing!!!

Motts, isn't that on top of the bearing? It just LOOKS like it is NEXT to it. That is probably where they DID put the grease or gear oil for the bearing.....maybe...?

My cracked rib knows exactly what you're saying Motts...

whoa! new Motts! YAY ! ! !

this looks like a laser shootin outta the president's office tower!

sci-fi halcyon,i am freakin loving it!

word

all the metal and rust.. such a awesome pic

I'm not sure what that apparatus is, but yes it could be for filling oil into a reservoir or something of the sorts.

For Oil?