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This is the first truly evil picture I've seen on the site

@Larry D
It's not a Yugo it's an old Fiat Panda. They are related because the Yugo was based on the Fiat 127 which was kind of a grandfather of the Panda.

Why is that one doorway so small?

I love the thing above the window outside. This shot really messes with people. :)

I worked in ci for 19 years and was laid off before they closed but as cruel as it sounds the patients were much better off there, than when they were released, they were put on the streets of ny city to fend for themselves many that were living there for years were not able to exist on the streets of the city and suffered from cold and hunger the money they got from social security was stolen and there medicin was either taken away or they were not able to receive it as they were taken care of for so many yearsby the state. If you were institutionalised for a long time it is impossible to exist on your own in a strange place

Thanks JackieB. Miss U JackieB alot?

Super...Mott

Haha, that's my birthday, too :P I love these photo's Motts! Looking through all these albums make me want to start exploring more abandoned buildings!

I find it interesting that there is a cross below "Le Mosche". It is relatively common belief in some areas that flies are symbols for the devil and are often bad omens.

It was real blood.

The slates on the roof are a local material quarried from Pennsylvania known as Pennsylvania ribbon slate. Notice the stripes diagonal pattern, most regions slates will have a nuance like that to identify the region it originated from. Its not often you even find an individual that truly knows how to naturally slate a roof any longer.

out of all the pictures of lonely chairs this one seems cheery

LarryD it occurs to me you may have a misconception of the hospital and my presence. I was at the children's shelter which was on the grounds of the hospital in buildings formerly used for staff to live in. There was a children's ward in that hospital where people left children that normally stay home today, that is MS, Cerebral Palsey and otherwise developmentally outside the norm children. It was a dumping ground.
The abusers were the staff of that ward, the staff of the children's shelter smoe random nurses and other personnel of the hospital. There is a book by Michael D'Antonio called the Great Boys Rebellion about a place near Boston which pretty well describes the abuses and mentality of the abusers literally right down to the exact same wording of the threats used.. As I read it I wondered if maybe some of the staff in my case had worked there or visa versa. The abuse I endured exceeded what is described in that book.
I felt it necessary to mention this since I have seen many reports of former patients and family of patients who have good things to say about SOHO.
I expect I was under the control of people who it seemed to me used their access and trust of the doctors built through dissembling to seek out victims among the patients who had no family and were not particularly paid attention to by anyone.
These abusers were a well known fact of life at that hospital as it was common to threaten misbehaving children with being sent there if they did not come back into line.

Can someone post an address, nearby address, or directions to this place or something. My friend would go wild if i gave him a location like this for his photography.

love the photography! i was reading throught the comments, and think i may have found an old friend of mine who went to art school in philly.... i called him "timmers" if anyone knows tim, please get ahold of me.