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I wonder if those "seclusion rooms" were used in place of, or in addittion to, pharmacological tranquilizers.

Love this site so much. I look at this site everyday Motts.

WOW! That is SOME photo gallery! Fascinating! I didn't think I was EVER going to get to the last pic! Apparently you were there for quite some time before getting chased off the premises.

VERY forbidding looking. YIKES!!!

Lynne, I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing! Those small boxes look like robot heads!

Lynne's comment about Americans being stingy about paying taxes makes an important point: our society as a whole should take responsibilty for the abuse of clients placed in the hands of poorly paid, overworked providers. It is difficult work and the provider is only human, as are we all.

Was the mesh damaged? Any writing on the walls?

I once talked to some park rangers about getting permission to photograph inside the abandoned buildings, they seemed to think it might be possible ... but this was ten years ago ..

Mott, was there any food in them, or just the smell?

These large kettles are not mixer, but Steam Jacket Kettles. The kettles have an inner and outer shell and hot steam is pumped in the space between the shells to cook food. units like these, although more modern, are still in use today.

Bob

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.

Too bad this one was left to decay away, it looks like a perfectly salvageable (and usable) model, I know ofd several nursing homes and older hospitals with long term care wings that use these very tubs/whirlpools.

Again, nice lighting!

Nice composition and lighting, and black-and-white was a great film choice!

it's been cited 47 times in other published literature....shame i couldn't get it either, but maybe when i'm back at school.