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Man I just love this big old cooler. Would be a great COOL big room for me.

I am a air conditioning and heating mechanic by trade. I would sure love to start this cooler back up, and see if it still runs, after all the electricity must still be live, as you found a refrigerator in this place with a working light inside of it. I think it would be cool to see if this old cooler still works.

Man I would sure love to sleep in this cooler for a few nights, and just wonder how many dead bodies were stored in it over the yrs LOL.

I love these old places. I look through abandoned buildings all the time where i live in st.louis. I sure love this cooler. I have a walk in cooler in my parents basement that I assembled my self, and I sleep in it every night. I have a flat panel tv on the wall, dvd player, xbox, and even a telephone inside, and yes the cooler it self does work as I hooked it up, and designed it to keep a comfortable temperature of 68 degrees.

Ditto that,Cat. What a nice surprise Mr Motts, We are addicts for new galleries. Thanks for your hard work and amazing talent

I did, I sent them an email.
We'll see what happens.
Maybe I can get a chance to be part of a doc on this place.
I think they should hurry though, I don't think that place will be standing for much longer.
I don't know why, but I'm getting the feeling that very soon, within a year the place will be torn down.

ohhh, and the light switch is not a light switch as we know it, it has 2 small holes that you needed a special key for, that was how they turned the lights on for the office, I remember this well because I used a paper clip to turn the office lights on.
I used to listen to the Monkeys on the record player that was in the office.

But turn right and go to B ward, the door to the rooms is on your left, I think just inside B ward, there should be a door on your left, when you enter it, you will see seclusion rooms that line the right hand side of the hallway.
There is a single door at the very end of the hallway, a metal box that has a light switch is on the right hand side of this door. From this office door, turn to your right, this was my room.
I hope this was detailed enough.

Chris,
When was you there?
What is 3 east??
Wards A, B, D and E was the only names that was used.
It was painted on the doors and I think on the wall as well.
Even when they needed help, they wouls shout "All available help on D as in David, all available help on D as in David". And then you had an army of eager bodies rushing at you to restrain you and strip you naked and place you in seclusion.
If they changed the names, that makes us old timers. LOL

Back in the 80's on D-ward we was allowed to smoke and they kept our smokes in that little room in back of the office that lead to the tv room.
We could only smoke in the tv room.
Anyone else remember that?

You all say this was the activities room?
The same room we had coffee shop in on the weekends?
When you come down to the first floor you turn right and go to the end of the hallway. That room?
I don't remember those pictures being on the wall. But if that's the room, I know it as the place we had Coffee Shop on the weekends.

The only reason I was there back in the 80's was because Gary Trent, my social worker, my friend, and the only family I had, needed a place for me stay until a bed opened up in Kolburne.
Considering that I was kicked out of Devereux
School for repeated run aways.
I was a ward of the state, Lived in Devereux, Wellington Hall, RFK, Kolburne, I was all over.

maman01,
But I don't think you was in the same room as us.
Was you in the room straight across from us?
OMG, if you were, you have to remember Danny, When he took his shoes off the paint would peel and hazmat workers would come to close the area!
No Bull, that kid HAD FEET!!!! LOL

maman01,
I'm doing good.
Living life and being free.
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
I remember Tony, and Mike I think his name was.
we lived in the same room. Both Tony and Mike had the beds straight ahead as you walk into the room, my bed was at the end of the room on the right hand side next to the tall closet/locker thing.

Chris, omg your right, it is seclusion!
I didn't recognize it at first because of the window, it's off center.
That could be because of the angle of the picture.
But you are right, it is seclusion.