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That door is the freekiest thing i've ever seen

the metal wrapping is there so when patients were being moved to a different location.. they cant grab onto anything... straight up torture shit..

these a beatifully taken photos and I love almost all of them they capture alot of emotions I would really like to do a charcoal drawing of some of them if you do not mind

i've lived around bennett for most of my life. i distinctly remember on my first day of kindergarten i didnt know where to get off the bus so i rode all the way to the bus garage. on my way there we passed bennett and i was scared out of my mind. years later i thought it was just a dream. so, yes, i was one of those lucky kids who is growing up by it (im still a kid at 14 right?)

so, now i live within walking distance of bennett and i've always wanted to explore it, but i hear theyre tearing it down :( its such a shame.

awesome i just saved this pic its awesome it has a ghost hehe

i recently re discovered the place.i would drive mountain bikes and motor bikes some 20 years ago on the paths.i went to the \medical building recently and was amazed how cold the air around the place is.it was a warm day but in the windows a cold air comes out and you can see your breath.i wouldnt hang out around the place often or long because it does have a feeling of despair and bad energy going on.

If one looks closely at the labels themselves, you can see that the original order was C-A-B.

it strikes me as odd they would elevate the coal damn near to the top of the building to transfer it into the building. The amount of energy to lift 100 tons of coal (I seem to recall that was the amount used on a daily basis at one point) must be considerable, rendering the process itself somewhat inefficient.

I imagine there were design issues involved where the plant might not have been laid out with the eventual volume of coal in mind when it was built. Maybe it _was_ that way from the start, who knows.

Eventually, the plant was converted to other fuel sources, rendering the coal loading process a moot point. However, the inefficiency might have played a part in the migration to a different fuel source.

Some companies subsidize the cost of the various sodas and other drinks offered on their premises for their employees -- such as MedicSpanker mentioned. I don't think that any true timeframe for the machine can really be established based on the price of soda on the machine. The machines themselves were designed to be adjustable as to the coin mechanism, allowing price increases over the years, of course.

I would hazard a guess the machine is from the later '60s or early '70s.

Very cool picture but total creepage!
What could it lead to?

It's a carrier bag, isn't it?

Those chairs are very familiar. They still use them to this day in the psychiatric ward I work in and ones I have visited for workshops. Radical Ed is right. It's just a recliner. The wheels on the bottom can be used to move patients that are elderly and immobile.

I totally heart this shot!

How can something change so much in so little? Or are there things I am not factoring?

Love to see that at least most of the building is still being admired and used.