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I graduated high school in 1967 and worked here as a secretary for Dr. Allison in the mens 18-65 building. I had also worked in the Geriatric bldg for Dr. Zapata. I remember well the bldgs in which I worked, the smells and, most of all, the patients, especially the geriatric ones. Ally was a wonderful, outgoing and friendly lady who had lived at the hospital for many years. She had suffered from encephalitis. She worked in the office filing for us and was a joy to be around. Then there was Margaret, an elderly lady who, because of a stroke, could not speak but when she turned the corner in the hallway on her way to the small lunch room, she would yell out, raise her arms and walk as quickly as she could toward me wanting her daily hug from me. The doctor I worked for had told me I had missed my calling; I should have been a nurse. Then I was transferred to the mens unit. I remember a young man who walked around yelling at the top of his voice on the grounds. When he reached the hallway the lead to Dr. Allison's office, he would stop yelling. When he walked into our office to have a word with the doctor, he was always so polite, friendly and made small talk about the weather. He would visit with the doctor then come back into my area of the room, bid his farewells and told me to have a great day, then he'd start yelling at the top of his lungs as soon as he walked back outside. One day he stopped coming around and I asked Dr. Allison what happened to him, that I missed his daily visits. He let me know that the young man had died the night before. I was shocked and saddened. The 3 years I worked there were filled with many wonderful days of working with my co-workers and visiting with several of the residents (patients). I was always fascinated by the buildings with their tall windows and beautiful architecture and never in a million years expected the hospital to close down. I'm saddened by the closure but am enjoying the pictures on this website. I'm looking for the 2 bldgs I worked in and have not discovered them in pics here yet.

This is where the beautiful brick curtain falls ........

Here here to Canada,s comment as in I would not want to be the one to tear down such a structure of 200 yr old prominence for it would surely be a curse to decimate such beauty in the name of progress !

Why can,t this or any government fund for a simple iron roof patchwork anything to allow these sentinels of the past to remain for they rot from the roof down fast spend some money save the past ?

The expert master builders of these times could not ever be replicated !

I agree black and white restores what little is left of the past .......................................................................................................................................................................................................

Truth be told i would love to see it restored to its former glory !

The entire place will one day be scrapped by recyclers once they can move on it when the owners are not looking ,And i cannot blame them this post victorianesque goldmine is ripe !

Please send me those fixtures all of them !

Gas lighting converted to electric and the architecture 18th century as said strip the wood board and convert this rock solid historical place into somethng useful ?
Post Soviet rot is the norm for anything once beautiful exposed to Eastern influence .........

Just for people's information there was no security when the building was vandalized also we was taken off for a few months during this time it was vandalized again, for your information sarah i would love to see you get onto the grounds of the old hall as there's a 20 stone black dude an 3 big doggy's that love to eat stupid little girls. On the grounds around the hall we patrol it but not so strict.

Unfortunately autoguy is right, This was an early industrial age lobotomy procedure room .
A place where such a prehistoric practice has not been entirely outlawed in some parts of the world where some Doctors can satisfy penchants for resulting behavioural attributes in patients post operational which were their only reason for the splice cut and removal of regions of the limbic systems which left the patients uncaring of survival at all and semi comatose where as before they were at least human !
This would be an interesting locale for a PPV set up and i would try silverplate flash frame photos instead of video for like white noise the secret to seeing the dimensional would be an ancient practice of flash silverplate technique i would bargain !

It would be inspiring to see this entire facility restored to its former grandeur !

rocky point has a walking path now ..the park is mostly dismantled and fences off....the dinning hall is still up and the poles to the skyline and there is a larger building you see further down the path ..im curios as to what that is...at the vrery end of the path there are old beach houses..i like to call it shack town..does anyone know why the houses are fenced in with the park? the park closed a year b4 i was born but im so intrgued by it becasue family members have so many memories from there..

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