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*gasp* what a breathtaking room. I think I'm in love.....

It would be could if you could send this photo to someone who used to work here and ask just WTH is up with this. But I guess, just like exactly how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop, the world may never know......

I must say, that is some freakingly high-shine wall tile. o.O

I dig the arched ceiling.

And I see the cardboard kid as maybe reaching into a pocket to draw it's own weapon. Tired of being a target and maybe ready to fight back? Mind, I've only had 3 cups of coffee so I'm not fully awake yet.

And for the record......NO, I was not one of the ones fired. I worked there from 1982 until the closing in 2000. 18 years, for those who don't want to do the math !!

I LOVE this shot!

just a couple notations to you. For the most part I really enjoyed this. But I do have one pet peeve.......I worked there when people were getting fired. and yes there were 22 who were fired. But no one remembers that 21 of those same people were hired back, because the charges were unsubstantiated. I have the news paper clipping stating they were rehired. At the time the powers that be wanted that place closed so they could build south Pointe. They did not have the paients welfare in mind. It was a set up. The Observer Reporter finally noted the rehire of the staff. That is why the parents and staff fought so hard to keep it open. That dear sir is why to others it seemed like the parents did a sudden turn around. They found out the truth behind that whole ordeal. Forgive me if I sound a little snippy. that is not my intention. I just get offended and offensevive because all the people I worked with were caring people. we used our own time and took paitents out to dinner and shopping, to ballgames, and plays AND even to kennywood. some of whom had never had the opporitunity to go outside of that place before then. mostly because they were behavior problems. So if at all possible I would appriciate an update written about the rehiring of these individuals as the documentation exisits. Now all that aside, just a little explanation of the stainless picture. some of the patients were severly physically handicapped and we laid them on those to bath them properly. I hope that helps your readers to better understand that particular picture. Thank you in advance for at least taking the time to read this.

i went to this place in about 1993. The place was crazy, and there was about 4 buildings, maybe 5 still up then. one of the places seemed like it was for kids. it had a gymnasium (with really warped floors) and a tall ceiling. on the wall was a weird book case that went all the way to the ceiling.

Im not going to lie, we were dumb teens then making a mess and playing around. I had a VERY eerie time there.

there was also a building that was in the round, had a court yard in the middle, and this building seemed to have alot of doctors tables, and rusted out halogen lights laying around.

There were also tunnels, that were meant for utilities, that connected a few of the buildings..but required too much hunch over and stuff to really explore. i remember a few of these rooms for sure. great pics

These are phenol resin chairs. Tough stuff, but it does fracture. In this case they both broke where screws attached them to the steel chair frame.

Steel screws, rust, semi-porous material, high humidity. Not a great combo.

It's probably simply coincidence they fractured in a similar way.

Its an awesome picture, but this was a prison to the patients who were held in those walls... that story ended like most of the other asylums around the world. Now a new chapter begins...

It's long seemed to be a New England "thing" to find graveyards in strange places. My mother found parts of one in her backyard in New Hampshire. Perhaps something to do with the inpenetratable ground; for six to eight months out of a year, the ground up there is frozen solid and makes burial -and construction- difficult.