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*sob!* This just makes my life so much harder! There are lots of archives that would have been thrilled to take on files like these. This has happened all over the place. When the Ellis Island Hospital closed they turned off the lights and walked away. 20 years later people reported seeing patient charts blowing all over the island. Now it is impossible to know who passed through there or what really happened...

TB didn't only affect the lungs; it could destroy almost any part of the body, including bones. People were most concerned with pulmonary TB because of how contagious it was, but it was quite common for TB to cripple people, as well.

Those are sputum cups; they're for the expectorate that TB patients cough up. They would have been disposed with by burning or else possibly used for specimen slides to test the "germ count" on each patient. Your sputum had to be free of TB bacilli for a certain number of months before you could be considered cured or arrested, and released.

my mother used to work there as well. she worked there from age 17-21. just reccently my mom and i broke in and took these pictures.

http://this-is-now1989...com/3017.html#cutid1

I'm with mAliss: "fuck you, DW. no animal deserves to end up as a coat."

*puts on checkgirl uniform and speaks into microphone* Pricecheck, I need a price check on a Raccoon.

Right back at you...there were actually three rides that did that - Musik Express, Apollo 11 and the Carousel. The first two played contemporary music and the last more traditional calliope music. I dont recall if the little carousel in Kiddieland played music or not.

You've got to make the questions harder than that!

Don't worry - you'll get over it quickly. ;-)

that is true...

but anyway, where is this Clark's Elioak Farm? does it have the teacups and other things they preserved from here on public display? (sorry if I broke the rules there, I don't know if that farm is private or whatever ><)

only got to go there once but have relatives who worked there and one who was a patient and i must say im gonna miss that place it was a most excelent time and i will always remember it

Because no one generally steps forward and shells out the incredible amount of money it would take to restore them. This place has been a notable exception, but check out the cost of restoration sometime and then see if your neighbors are willing to pay the taxes to renovate/restore. Few people are willing to maintain current buildings that are in use, much less the cost of maintaining/restoring old buildings.

As far as why they aren't torn down - in many cases someone hoped that the building(s) would be purchased some day, but by the time there was interest, the increased cost of restoration (and asbestos abatement for many older buildings) had become prohibitive.

^ LOL.

I think I'm starting to become a fan of yours, Lynne : )

Undoubtedly. "Clean the walls, beat the patients, water the grass" - what a great multi-purpose tool for all psychiatric facilities.

70 yrs ago I swam in a pool close to the hospital. My brother worked there. I loved the place, and being familiar even then with Count Dracula, I knew this was his home. It looked like a castle to me and these fantastic pictures just prove I was not wrong. You just brought back my childhood to me through these photos, thanks.

I just realized how stupid that sounded... I was 6 years old when KPPC closed XD
even so, I wish I could have a loom like that. of course not that exact old decreipt crap-covered one, but one like it. even so, it may sound cheap, but I doubt I'm the only one who wishes they could've have some of this expensive/interesting stuff before it rotted... its a shame. it may tell us something now about the people who once dwelled in certain places, but the developers planning to tear down various places could usually care less about the "junk" that lies inside. I know KPPC isn't coming down anytime soon, but I was speaking of places in general... ah, you get what I mean, lol.

You're welcome for the info, Nance! : )
You're right! A big thanks to Motts and his beautiful photography!
Even through the decay and overgrowth his eyes were able to capture places in this enchanted forest that will always be close to my heart.
Such a beautiful place!
Unfortunately, it was stripped of pretty much of all of it's creative fairytale and nursery rhyme figures when it was sold the second time.
Some were destroyed, or stolen while the place was left to just rot when it first closed years ago. All figures the figures are gone.
Many figures AND structures (the chapel in the woods, Little Red Riding Hood's Grandmother's house to name a few.),are left unaccounted for and Clark's Elioak Farm would love to hear from anyone who may have figures, signs, or even structures, that they would like to return. No questions asked!!!!
I personally would love to know what happened to Alice and all the Wonderland gang, Rapunzel, and Cinderella and company.
Although, I had found a person who supposedly was creating new Cinderella figures for the castle when the park was first sold years ago. He said the originals were pretty much destroyed "roached" is how he put it.
I asked him if he could please explain, but he never responded, and so I left it at that.
But, I have never come across in my research anyone who ever saw the Cinderella figures out of the park after it closed.
Some of the other figures and such are another story...