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I was here in the 90's. This room was unpleasant. Some of the treatments they used were horrific. Inside those rooms, some had beds with mechanical restraints as well as leather straps that bounded pir arms and legs together that we would have to walk around in if we misbehaved.......like I said. The stories I could tell.

I was there in 1994. I was on the floor with a young man named Eric. He was very caring. I can see his face in my mind. A lot of the pictures I remember so well. The therapy they used at times was completely in humane. They observation mirror in one of the previous pictures was for those on suicide watch. We had a lot of those rooms. The handprints were supposed to make us feel like we belonged and were part of a group of kids that had the same emotion issues as we did. The stories I could tell you of this place would blow your mind.

Sad part is, I remember those rooms so well. I once was a patient in this horrible place. The memories.....oh the memories.

If anyone watches HGTV, one of the big things some designers are doing is putting the barn-door style doors.

I'm pretty sure those handprints were made by pranksters after the facility closed down. If they were made by the kids in the hospital for some therapy or entertainment purpose, they would neither have chosen black nor would allow the kids to paint on the back of the door.
Besids, I think they look like an adult's or teenager's handprints.

The Arch!

YES, concur all above......
and it IS so LIGHT, a very light basement. Good big windows IS fine.

Terrible renovation really.
Guess it also is a skill to ruin something completely.
Have to look really hard to detect the old charms.
Thank you so much for all the Historical Pictures + The campus map. It is helpful.

Yes barren but in good shape - sad waste to demolish.
What an ordeal to live /like/ this.
- But one blessed fortunate MICA PATIENT had Four Windows
- that really is a lucky strike&treat;.

Yeah Hi Mr. M - you look very nice today.
With a mirror?
This is not a room; it is a cell.

It IS quite terrible because it looks like a ZOO.
Am old enough to remember when animals were kept like this in the fifties.

Aha...ohhh thank you, flushed, yeah - thought it was going "around" the cloud with a meaning i could not understand.
Ohh dear - yeah what is the PinkLumpFigure?
It is Not Really a nice painting to have on a wall
- and am in doubt it helps at all.

The stairs like that in physical therapy with me after I shattered a vertebra.

My grandfather Gottfried "Fritz" Fischer and my dad Dale Fischer both worked at Active. I remember the Drettman name and another, Walter Langelow (?) mentioned alot. Dad left for GM but grandpa retired from there in early 70s.

Looks like a Ghost in the picture.