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that is creepy how that thing is open
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does it acutally same the REAL name of the abandoned hospital in the book..or does it lie like opacity and make up a fake name to the abandoned hospital ...can you really believe what opacity says when he lies and makes up fake names to abandoned hospitals???
Ephemera: Dead Rollers
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Wow--- GORGEOUS; the WHOLE place. Refurbished, it would be a dream home, save for the "dreams"... Or.
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Do you just find these places and then go in them or do you have to get permission?
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Thanks Mary!

I think it's a little known fact that quite a number of institutions in the USA participated in the eugenics movement, even after the war (as late as the 1970s). For those looking for more information, an interesting site which includes background research and statistics on compulsory sterilization by state can be found here: http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/
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Wrong style hood...
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I am AMAZED! I am taking a class about policy and etics for my MSN and we were talking about eugenic sterilization. When I was about the ages of 6-12, my family were members of St. Gregory Barbarigo Catholic Church in Stony Point. On Sundays they had mass outside at Letchworth and then we did some arts and crafts with the residents. We bonded very well with 3 specific residents, Catherine, Sadie and Rocco! They came to our home for dinner on many Saturdays and Sundays. My mom and dad asked to see their records one time and without HIPPAA then- were allowed to do so. ALL 3 and MANY THERE- were abandoned with no familt information or contact. I have only the FONDEST memories there. Thanks for these moving photos- I remember the enterences looking like this, but the grounds, back then were absolutely gorgeous. I hope you don't mind, but I have asked the rest of my calss- NURSES working on their MASTER DEGREES FROM ALL OVER TEXAS- to view your site!
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It's not stairs!!!! IT'S A REDNECK ESCALATOR
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It looks like something that works like cotton gin saw wheels(what seperates the cotton from the lint). Judging by the grate welded on one side it would work that way. but it's just a s.w.a.g. (scientific wild ass guess)
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My guess is the projector heads are Simplex XL. The setup is very similar to what I ran in another Mental Hospital back in the 1970s. Altogether a rather spartan booth and probably showed movies only a few times a month, if that.
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Another epic photo...time seems to stop when your perched at the top of the the second most beautiful building ever built...1st belongs to Edgewood hospital before the vandals destroyed it from the inside out...great pic!!!
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har har har
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the black staircase in the greene building
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the thermastat still worked Motts?
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Amazing shot...spent an amazing night up there...truly an unforgetable experience that I will look back on for the rest of my life...93 is the /most beautiful structure on the entire island...whenever I am in the area I have to drive through just to admire her beauty