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I went to Horace Mann...started kindergarten in 1951, and went through 7th grade. It’s so interesting to see all of these pictures. Thank you!!!

I was a patient on Service 2 in the late seventies...I was only 16 and massively psychotic for months...the psychiatrist had me on so much thorazine I could hardly get out of bed and I gained a lot of weight...I feel like my mental illness robbed me of life...now I am 55 and it has been a long struggle in and out of hospital and with stigma...I managed to graduate from UMASS with a BA in English lit, worked for many years, married a beautiful understanding woman and moved to Europe to live with her...we are still together after 17 years...I do not think we will ever part...I managed to experience a little bit of life despite schizophrenia

They look like they would hurt

I think I'd like one of those, they look like they might be fun. And also they remind me of those inversion tables where you can hang by your ankles. I have one of those and it does wonders for my bad back. 20 minutes upside down and everything kind of realigns itself.

I could use a couple of those in my office to keep my coworkers in line

Power plant my ass!

Last time I was there the only entrance was welded shut. I may be heading back to check it though.

Poor old girls...

If those are copper pipes I wonder why nobody's taken them yet.

Green is supposed to have a soothing effect, but since I associate these particular shades of green with ancient (mental) health institutions and my previous dentist, who wasn't exactly competent, it comes across as unsettling more than comforting to me.

If there'd been one toilet it'd have been the Lone Throne.

The layers of paint on this picture look amazing, going from soft pastels to a very hard dark red. Odd colour for a bathroom.

I wonder what used to hang on that cork board. There still appears to be a tack stuck on it.

That trail of peeling paint oddly reminds me of ivy...

I'm looking for someone very pacific from here is there records?

Motor Generators used to stabilize power.