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Seems like something out of a horror movie...what's in the trunk?

That poor cat! It's almost like a car wreck; you shouldn't be looking but you can't turn away. How agonizing!

thats a fucking dog leg

My daughter and I passed the hospital today on the way to a contracting job. We'd never heard of Glen Dale, as we are from Frederick County. We instantly got the creeps passing by the grounds. Now, I can't get away from the computer to find out more. Its too bad they won't allow people to at least walk the grounds. Anyone know of any diaries kept by patients?

This building was originally the house the Sheriff and his family lived in once they were elected as Sheriff. Trustees from the Jail were allowed into the house daily to clean. Later Sheriff's lived off site and used this building for a Pre-Release Center then administrative offices. Mott's thank you so much for the pictures, cameras for the most part were never allowed into the institution so pictures are rare. It has been over 15 years since I have seen the inside and your pictures have jogged my memory of both good and bad times.

This picture is the Columbus Ave. side of the Main Block, the stair railing in the lower left was the stairs from six tier that led to the library. The screening on the two upper tiers was added in the early 80's after several close calls of both staff and inmates almost rolling off the tiers during disturbances.

I wouldn't be suprised if that room was full of disembodied voices and all kinds of paranormal activity.

ohhh that's creepy god only knows what happened in here.

Thank you for all the information you've given!

jackieb,

When the hospitals became overcrowded and no one would increase their funding they had to make use of what space they had, so one of the ideas was to try to separate the space by using dividers. In some of the pictures of old hospitals you will see up to 60 beds crowded together in one medium sized room, where the beds were side to side and head to foot and you could only get to them by hopping from one to another. Even though pony walls look like a huge lack of privacy to us these days, back then any setting aside of space was unusual and was intended to give the person a small sense of personal space. Most of the time pony walls were used for folks who were not ambulatory or who would not wander into each others' space and destroy their belongings.

There are still a number of places where several people may stay/sleep together in one room, especially if they are medically fragile and all need the same intensive support and same type of medical equipment, but most places have done a significantly better job of setting aside private areas in the rooms.

Long answer - short question. :-)

I still wanna know what was the title of the book...

Back in grade school, we had "filmstrips" that went with a record, the record "beeped" for the teacher to turn the filmstrip to the next frame.

It's funny, I've been looking for plumbing fixtures to replace the ones in my kitchen and bathroom sinks, and I almost picked ones that looked like these spigots!

X MARKS THE SPOT GET IT???????

it is big to explore