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i just don't understand why don't they fix this place up and keep it as a muesum maybe or something to remember by. . . why are they going to tear it down. . . my aunt use to work there and she told me stories that i want to go in there but therrs no way in.. .

het motts. . . how did you get inside to take that pic?

is anyone really sure that it was a barbar chair and not a chair for toture for these people?

is there any way to get inside to check this out for ourselves!?

it kinda looks like it could of been a fire alaram where you could pull it so sound off the alarms

I work with real people (survivors...) who used to live here and in nearby associated institutions. These images certainly reflect at least the sense of isolation that I have heard ex patients talk of. The decay contrasted with the echoes of the opulent architecture captured in your pictures seems to mirror the contrast within society in that time of those within and those outside the perimeter.
Hauntingly evocative and for me providing a most graphic reminder of what those I support have lived through.
Awesome, in every sense....

If 'treasure hunting' is ever OK (And I've had some interesting discussions about it recently in reference to scuba diving) signs that say 'Unexposed' would be great for a photographer.

I WAS NOT THERE BUT I KNOW PEOPLE WHOWAS THERE

I rather think that the record player pictured was called the non-sync.I the cinema this type of unit was used to play 78 r.p.m. records during the interval etc.The music played was not in sync with the film being shown,the film sound would,on this installation,be printed on the film in the form of an optical soundtrack.

Just looking at those walls makes me angry already! I've always thought that these hospitals tried to help patients, but looking at this site, I've changed my mind.

This room is falling apart! Does that door next to the window lead outside? that would explain the destruction.

That would stink to be locked in a room with no door handle.

That's a sub-reflector, in the center of the antennas primary reflector there is a large "post" (called a feed horn) that houses the LNA's (Low Noise Amplifiers). You have it right in your description I just wanted to add the industry terms of the parts. Great photos and thanks for sharing them. I should have visited this place before I left Maryland...

Ok cool. Thanks :) I had a feeling it would be about that long.

that shot is cool, right on that wall behind the right pillar is a black spraypainted juds priest logo...