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the only kind of excrement smearing I've heard about was a special(handicapped or retarded) student at my school in the bathroom..out of the stall. The bathroom hasn't been open since, which has been years.

her feet look like they're bleeding.. this is interesting.

perhaps hbobs lived there..? The place wouldn't leave these in a room.. After 16 years, they'd be rotted away and bleh.

poor baby..someone must've done that. This is a great picture, kindof shows the mood of this place.

this place is as old as me..and it looks like it's been abandoned since the 70's or 60's..

@ Max I know most of these comments were made 7 years ago,but not all mentally ill are in prisions. Not far from where I live is a place called Marion,Virginia,and there is a still running state hospital for the insane there

These look like apartments or condos, not the outside of a hospital. This is a nice shot & it still lloks good.

I like this shot, too many straight hallways in these type of places, nice to see something different.

Anytime I see a shot like this, where the camera is tilted to give a hall or room this slanted look, I think of a ship sinking.

i thought the same staxman, who sells their best friend a haunted
TV? ha ha, but he didn't know. Or at keast it wasn't haunted in HIS house...which maybe means it's not the TV?! maybe a ghost here
that just happened to clue in through this Sh-tbox from the 30's or whatever..lol...

Halcyon Hall itself has a monumental history of drinking and alcohol
consumption associated with it.. I have always been astonished at
how much rich people drink, compared to even the toughest proletariot.
I actually have to give some signiifanct respect and props to many of their
ability to hold their liquor well. Practice, I guess.

So if there are ghosts, they are drunk as lords,going back to Halcyon's earliest hotel days. when they concocted a tale that Apollinarus water
was the most consumed bevvie, when in reality it was gallons of liquor and wine.

During the college years, it wasn't really a party school, per se.
More like Vassar as opposed to Marist.

But as soon as it was abandoned, it became a haven for the drinking
of cheap beer, and whatever else. A place for the kids to party that
wouldn't bother ANYONE. But good things don't last, eh?

I go through phases, usually it's a couple of Blueberry Pomegranate
Ratchetaritas, then onto some fairly macho beer drinking. But tonight,
I'm knocking back some cold Jim Beam with iced Coors Light, brown bottle.Probably what most Americans would be drinking if the
Confederacy won the Civil War. I'm in a southern mood, which happens from time to time, and for unpredictable reasons.

My favorite story from the Civil War-

Lincoln's Secretary of War beseeched to The President that
the Army's officers complained that General Grant was drunk 24 hours
a day.

"What brand whiskey does Grant drink?" asked Lincoln.

His secretary replied "What difference would that make, Mister
President?"

"Because I want a case of that consigned to ALL of my generals"
trumped Lincoln, who if he hadn't been the greatest American
president, would be known and ranked as almost as great a
Writer as Mark freakin Twain.

So.. a toast to writers [and generals] who could hold their liquor,
and to Halcyon Hall, which turns 120 years old next month...

when i was a child their were still people who were alive to
witness as themselves children, Halcyon being built....

Their generation was weaned on stories from The Civil War,
from the era before "World Wars"....

Maybe these doors were there to make the coffee shop seem more fancy or more inviting to visitors of the hospital. Whatever they were meant to do, they do look nice.

It looks like the building is glowing, what a wonderful shot this is.

This shot reminds me of the hospital from V for Vendetta, Lark Hill

This shot reminds me of the hospital from V for Vendetta, Lark Hill

What a shot, Motts. I really like all the colors in this shot, the greeness of the ivy & other plant life, the redness of the brickwork, the whiteness of the concrete & the rust on the window frames.