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omg i love the pic and blood does turn brown by now.how do you ppl know so much about this.omg i have to see somting scary to have a good dream and if i dont i will have nightmare its justthis creepy thing with me and you dont know how much i am ubsesed with ghost and demont i want to o to hell soooooooooooooo bad.it sounds sooooooo cool.also if you look closely you can see a little brown dried blood ewwwwwwwwww but cool.ps i know im wierd its awsome and there definetly is a mourge in there sooooo cool.my sis almost went there with her friends i wish i could come but im only in 5th grade <=,( sad im just glad i wasnt disected or something like that well asomely creepy pic i love it bye

Great work Mr. Motts. Have really enjoyed following your postings. A collector would go crazy with this.

You, you light up my life, you give me hope...

beautiful Motts

Looks like the wheelchair from The Changeling with George C. Scott.

The lab would have been like any hospital or health department lab. No torture. Just samples on slides to look for parasites like nematodes (blood fluke sort of thing) and hookworms. Blood drawn into little vaccutainer tubes to do basic bloodwork to diagnose and treat things like electrolyte abnormalities. A pretty simple urinary tract infection can make older folks completely crazy and that would have been some of what the lab would have been used for (analyzing the cup of urine...no patient attached).

There appears to be something printed on the glass in the doors. Do you happen to know what it was?

That woodwork is absolutely beautiful. It appears that much detail was put into the construction of this facility - a stately, powerful design. The design of these exit passages on each side of the stage is interesting. With the open, flat areas on top, it looks like it would be an ideal location for placing loudspeakers for a sound system.

This is a pretty good sized stage lighting switchboard/dimmerboard. The dimmers were most likely manufactured by the Superior Electric Co. (judging by the style of the handles) and equipped with a rack and pinion assembly coupled to the large handles extending through the front panel. It looks like there could be two or three rows of these dimmers. There also appear to be longer handles connected to shafts, to which dimmers can be coupled (by rotating each handle to one side) to couple them together in order to operate several dimmers at one time. There also appear to be breaker or fuse panels at the far edge of the board as well. A study of the labels on those breaker panels, as well as the labels above the dimmer handles, would provide interesting information as to what kinds of lighting equipment were in use here. I've spent a good deal of my life working with these things in Elementary, Junior High, High School, and College. It's a shame to leave these things behind, but at least they have not been mutilated or destroyed so that people can appreciate them for what they are , study them, and take photographs of them to share with others, as you have so graciously done.

One Question, dear Motts. Did you find any evidence of a counterweight system or sandbag (hemp) system for flying pipe battens containing curtains, lighting equipment, or scenery in this theater?

Looks like a room they used for group ECT!

Back in the day it was allowed...probably encouraged to chemically "restrain" patients as they were easier to care for then. The lobotomy was also a popular procedure. The residents in our old facility were taken outside every day for air...it was considered part of their therapy. Even the bed-ridden ones were wheeled out for their 15 minutes of fresh air.

Patients were easier to moniter in groups and as over-crowding took over, partitions and dividers just took up unnecessary room that they could use to stuff people in.

Yeah, what is that grate behind the chair...an airduct? And what is that in the upper right corner...a door or window?

Psych patients often draw their dreams...or their nightmares...