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ah, looks so cool and peaceful...I could totally imagine sipping a lattee (latte?) there

This is probably a stupid question, but did they house patients in the basement? I just wondered because of the doors..

My father was a staff MD on the grounds of CI State Hospital and I grew up there from 1964 through 1968 (staff housing). As a young boy it was a wonderful place for a kid to ride bikes and enjoy the outdoors. We (my siblings and I) played baseball on the grounds and I learned how to play golf on its nine hole golf course. I have many fond memories of the place, unlike the patients that lived there. I still feel for those that lived and died at that hospital and many are buried on the grounds at it little cemetary which still exists today.

I bet it was from patients as well...either way, it's a very powerful photo

I like it, but it kind of saddens me at the same time

o my word. that looks so creepy. almost like the second floor of my gramma's house. but she has blankets. and the walls are green.

now i wanna walk down the hall. it looks so cool.

o_o i really like tha way this contrasts between the pen and the city

The Central Islip medical facility had a delivery room where I delivered a baby while a resident. Also there was a greenhouse and fresh flowers were delivered daily to the doctors living on the grounds. 1963

i've once hooked up the dangling wires from a ceiling speaker in an abandoned theatre to a portable cassette player... it actually sounded quite good!

Debi, thats super intense. I would definitely have nightmares from that.
And I wouldn't touch beer kept cold in a morgue.

Always with the jars of banana pudding!

Trish, it probably is banana pudding.
Morticians get hungry too.

Its always been strange to me that they actually freeze the bodies.
It seems so...dehumanizing.

These things are so frightening.