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So pretty.

I volunteered at Dixmont. I remember this piano in a main area. It was played for the patients during our visits. During Christmas we would sing Xmas songs, give out bags of goodies and play games with the patients. It broke my heart to see some of the people just rocking back and forth in chairs, with no eye contact or emotions. There were a lot of people there that were abandoned by their families.
This photo stirs the memories I have of Dixmont and the happy music playing to sad faces.

I see the moose in the cabinet door also & below that an image that looks like a cat.

Working in modern day nursing homes and hospitals--I would think that this machine was a suctioning machine for when people are choking----there would have been another rubber hose at the end which was inserted in the mouth to clear the throat passages of food, or whatever was obstructing the airway.

Wow! Such advanced decay is fascinating to me. I'm all for saving historic sites, but this place just had to go. I'm thankful that Motts preserved it in it's dying days in photography.

I recently watched Typhoid Mary... It led me here... very interesting information. Thanks

Sad that someone fell to their death in there the day after these photos were taken. I have a high respect for what you do Motts. These are not places for amateurs to be spelunking in. Abandoned buildings can kill you DRT (Dead Right There) in a number of ways. Floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, stairwells, elevator shafts, broken glass, hot power lines, flooded basements, pissed off animals & humans can make for a very bad day. Please be careful in your adventures Motts.

negative, uufie

I'd like to feel the smell of this places!

PERFECT

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damn whoever pulled it out

The way the wall is peeling to the right of the door (the door's right :P) looks like the tiles are actually that vinyl stuff you see in showers sometimes.

per history channel - Berlin has a very high water table - and as such stuff underground floods regularly - and did during the war as well - and had to be pumped out regularly. Even in bunkers that were built on top of hills - the first floor above ground and any under flooded.