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As with all these pics, it's haunting. Too haunting and too melancholy for me to use as a wallpaper.

The lighting in your photos is so hauntingly beautiful! Is that moss growing on the floor in this pic? Great shots! I'm seeing more of the Norwich Hospital through your photos than I EVER saw of it when I grew up just up the street from it!

The love seat

ah boy..
I'm walking side-ways now..

They are calling Dr. Moe, Dr. Larry, and Dr. Curly.

Wierd - ass hall.

Back in the 50's when my aunt had an arrested case of TB part of the treatment was to not drain the spagetti too thoroughly

Grand Hotel.

The scientists at my 1st job (lab) used to warn me not to use the elevator when bringing back dry ice;use the stairs.
The dry ice would sublime,pushing the oxygen out of the way should the elevator break-down (as they often did)

George Washington slept there.



I'd sleep there.

Great photos; I briefly explored the place when I was about 11 with my father...we were boating and decided to beach the boat to take a walk and ended up crossing the rails and finding this place. Must have been abandoned less than a year at that point, it was overgrown but otherwise looked perfect. Lousy industrial area, but really if the city ever crawls out of depression it would be a great place for condos, right on the water, make a footbridge over the rails and a little seasonal dock, the valley yuppies would flock...

You have to spit( Preferably on some one) or kiss or live in close proximity to have contagion with TB. Yesteryears virus were not as strong or clever (yes,viruses have feelings too) as the ones today.These viruses have fallen and can't get up.

Working for the IRS one would find thier medical coverage to be lacking.None the less they forward your med recs to your supervisor.A co-worker(at that time)told me his supervisor came running over to him and blurted-out;"What are you doing here?!you're a sick man!!" So much for medical confidentiality, I guess.

You're close. It's "qui transtulit sustinet," meaning, "He who transplanted still sustains." It's the Connecticut state motto.

That fireplace is amazing! I grew up just up the road apiece from the Norwich Hospital, but the only building I've ever been in is the Administration Building. My father worked at the Norwich Hospital for years as a psychiatric aide. Fascinating photos!

1971 rough year

Depends where you go or work, nature of the place, whose file you read under what circumstances.Some doc accounts will make you rub your eyes, shake your head and say 'Wha Tha!!" or "Oh Man!!!"

I've been fired a couple of times for copying things I shouldn't have.
But I will say this: just leaving shit behind open like this after the fact is a disgrace.
Its' like the time this video rental place behind where I was living went out of business, and ,as I would say, it was the WAY they went out.They were in there every night with the lights on as if they were open but they were not.After that by a few weeks they threw everything out and just let the people's file cards blow all over the street for everyone to see. Disgrace.
In office today they scan info onto disc,but the docs are shipped to a place that specializes in holding on to them for 7 years.

thanks blueskyes, but i like autoguy's answer better, lol ^_^ j/k

I wonder why when they close a building, they don't take all this stuff out of it, at least to sell at an auction or something, rather then let it rot in the building for years...

How do papers get scattered around like this? Do vandals come in and do this, or is this something that somehow happens over time do to other factors in the building? It just seems that boxes of papers should stay in their boxes.

It seems this is a common occurance in most of these buildings