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Hey is that leatherface? lol

ooh very mournfull shot merissas right the chair does look sad

good one mr motts

ok one thomas if ur gonna come to this site u gotta understand people are gonna be gothic!

man this pic reminds me of the changling
srry for freaking out!

You people are very strange....

uuuuh looks like jason has visited here before lol ;)

I worked for 5 summers emptying all the L shaped buildings. We threw out desks, chairs, cabinets...now looking back, there was nothing wrong with the stuff

I worked at Dever for 5 summers and never saw these tunnels

You find soap dispensers in the nicest, even holiest places.

Katie:

https://www.opacity.us...rotting_bathroom.htm

Taubin,

Believe about 50% of what you read about this place. This was the first major court case for MR/DD facilities and while there were rampant abuses here due to insufficient funding and citizen apathy, the worst abuses were touted as normal everyday occurrences because it sold more newspapers and was flashier on the 5:00 news. The fact that the people of the state and country didn't care enough about this class of citizens to do anything about them (like vote for funding so they didn't have to live like this) was somewhat left out of all the stories. The other part that was left out was the legion of underpaid staff who worked with little pay under appalling conditions to take care of these folks and the families who were forced to leave family members behind because the state (i.e., the people reading this right now who can vote) didn't provide funding for home services.

However, bottom line - if someone - anyone - is placed on a gurney without straps where I work they will get a disciplinary write-up because it is unsafe to put someone flat on their back on a piece of moving equipment and move them around. If they additionally don't understand why they are on a gurney and are being moved about they are more likely to fall off. It's a safety precaution.

You EMS people out there - how often are you allowed to put someone on a stretcher or gurney and move them around without first securing them with those pesky restraints? Ever?

Soap box rant #243. :-)

Why is that checkered floor so creepy???

Because it looks like Satan's hopscotch court
:)

"1964 like it reads on the Thompson Mental Health Center greeting page...I could be wrong, I'd just blame Motts then."

This will teach me to be more observant when posting purely in the comments section. I was referring to somewhere else. Maybe I'll actually look. My dumb ass got my Mental health places mixed.

Yes, it's a long exposure shot, maybe 30 seconds or so.

I don't remember any special cut doors, perhaps a fire exit to the left within a recessed alcove.

It was opened in 1912.