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Radiator is ready to charge here as well.

I understand they have a very nasty bite.

Looks like the radiator is about to charge us.

You go first. . .

Union Shop?

Nope, I am still picturing the radiators as iron cattle peeking out of the cubes. . .

I still haven't found the hidden Rose in this picture.

And mutant nature takes over in mutant ways.

I second that N, the exterior fabulousness is absolutely missing. But then, so are the Zombie archers that should be standing eternal guard on the ramparts.

Bldg. 15 came as a big shock to me! In 1961, as an 18 year old new to working at the Hospital's Plumbing Shop, I was not quite ready for the Human Conditions I observed on Ward 63 of Bldg. 15! Many of the Patients bore the results of the progressive effects of untreatable Schizoprenia. Long before Psychotropic Medications were able to halt the Process of Schizophrenia, many of the afflicted would degenerate into an almost inhuman state! These poor Souls would spend their remaining years in a living hell one would not wish one's worse enemy! I would spend the next 35 years working in various State Hospitals, for the most part as a RN and later an Operational Level Administrator. I watched the "System" grow from the languishing existence of Ward 63 into an effective Community Based Mental Health Care Organization. There was still a need for Hospital Based treatment, but nothing like the large Wharehouse like State Hospitals of the past. Unfortunately, Community Based and Hospital Based Mental Health Treatment is expensive. Today, with many of the Mentally Ill either in Jails, Prisons or roaming,untreated,on the streets of our Cities and Towns, we have to ask ourselves how far from The Ward 63's of the 1960's have we come?

Classic!....May Fortune Favor the Foolish! Well done.

"A crank bed? Now that is something that needs to be on display somewhere"
The Mutter museum

thanx for checking in Motts luv your work

wanderer i was thinking the same thing, almost as if there talking amongst each other.

Personally, no; I didn't take many photos from this last visit as the place was pretty trashed, and my previous visits were still fresh in my mind. I'm not sure what's left to explore there these days, but if I were in the area and had never seen the place, sure I'd have a go at it!

I WORKED THERE MONTHS BEFORE AND AFTER IT CLOSED MOVING RESIDENTS TO ST LUKES NURSING HOME. MY UNCLE DIED THERE IN 1950, MY GRANDFATHER STAYED THERE FOR TB AND MY UNCLE TOO. I COULD NOT FIND MY UNCLES RECORD BUT DID FIND A SMALL CARD ABOUT MY GRANDMOTHER THAT ACTUALLY WAS FROM OLD ONIEDA COUNTY HOSPITAL. I JUST WANTED TO SHOW MY FAMILY WHERE I WORKED SINCE ITS GONE NOW. IT MAKES ME SAD. I WOULD NEVER HAVE USED THE PICTURES TO JUST HAVE A LAUGH. THESE PICTURES ARE TOTALLY WAY BEYOND WORSE THEN WHEN I WS THERE BUT YET I KNOW IT SAT 10 YEARS. A PART OF ME LEFT WHE IT WAS TORN DOWN.

A window to light up the stairs - they built like that - and it is clever.