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Anyone else notice the black mass on the right side?

utterly stunning! why cant they build things like this anymore. people just dont seem to take pride in what they do anymore

really Mr security officer I"m just here looking around.

breathtaking! I could look at this all day

I love it!! Thank you Mr Motts for all that you do.

Welcome to the Hotel Philadelphia.....
Well. mirrors on the ceiling - YES!
But where´s my champaigne on ice?

These places look so much better without the fluorescent lighting. Can you imagine the old asylums back in the 1800's before electricity when they were lit with candles and gas lamps? Cool!

This is the day room where we wandered around all day

Ok lets get real - This was only one of many buildings therefore it in itself did not house 8000 pts. Just under a 1000 is what the current Shapiro Developmental Center in Kankakee houses in even less buildings that have been renovated to now have bedrooms. What you are looking at was one of the dormatory wings and these buildings were easily renovated to have bedrooms in them now that are quite spacious. Beds were lined up on the wings for the patients to sleep and then in the center of the H shape was the "Day Room."

Definitely an early Reeves Stretcher. Good for getting into tight spaces, getting a patient strapped in, and carrying him/her out to somewhere more accessible.

I've got goosebumps .....can't wait to continue on to the rest of the gallery!

Imagine
that this is that of which the cell's inhabitant dreamed of ...as he lay in that bed , ....an AROWsing Angel to apear atop of him ... gasping for air , to lead him away from that room forever
in the wildest of dreams ....truely erotic in the most macabre of ways

eeeeeew don't touch the sheets !!!

JUMPS ------- right out at ya hu ?

you have to suffer for true art ! and this is painfully artistic --yes

Yes Yes YES the strength and pasion