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RUN CHAIR RUN!! Motts is behind you!!

RUN CHAIR RUN!!!

Motts is after you!!

Keith, I think it's been done on Trading Spaces already.

To quote Cliff Ehrlich "It's better than sleeping outside"

This is a most excellent shot! I am awed by it!

Guess what? I didn't read all the posts after Lynne and Marcia's 3-4th post. Why? Because as a person that has worked in health care for over 20 years, much like themselves, I know better than to blabber on about "laymen" or ppl NOT experienced in healthcare. I have to admit I am upset. This is supposed to be a photography site. I came here to appreciate Motts photographs and enjoy his tour through places that I will never see with my own eyes. I didn't come to this site to read a bunch of arrogant one-sided CRAP about the decline or progression, depending on who you ask, of healthcare. No one has worked in every facility that Motts has photographed. Nor have they worked in them for all the years they were open. You can not take one workers insight/ view of a specific time period and assume it was that way for all those years. How would they know? They can't. This place could have been ghastly before that person worlked there. And how dare anyone judge a former patient's view of life in an institution. That narrow-mindedness is appalling. Please appreciate Motts "art" and let it speak for itself.

I don't see a face either. I see a shadow, but it doesn't even resemble a person to me. oh well.

omg i'm so sorry that was a completely an "ax" accident see what happened is has the hatchet was in my hand and then in kinda fell on top of he's head...muahahah yea right an accident.

Like the new look of the site. Lynton

Stranger, thats interesting, but, I'm not sure if I would go with that explanation.. I may be wrong but, weren't many lobotomies frontal? That wouldnt leave the doctor much room to work with ( i could be wrong, but It just appears that way to me)
It's pretty freekin interesting though.

Stranger, I'm curious as to the source this information came from. Would you please cite it for us?

I can't believe that the bldgs are still there. I grew up in Greenbelt MD, and as teen i would do hours of exploring of the main hospitals with my best friends when we skipped school. I'm 34 now and I explored there when I was in my late teens. The morgue was always the creepiest place to visit in there. Still gives me goosebumps to this day. It was fairy easy to slip into if u parked in one of the residential neighborhoods and walked up thru the back paths!

i have been watching this forum for a while on this picture and i have done some research... in many hospitals for the mentally challenged in the "olden days" they did labotamies (sorry for spelling) in washrooms because they got so messy. In most cases, they used some kinda of table that kept the patients head separated from the body. They did these operations to remove part of the brain believeing that it would "cure" the person, when in reality is crippled them. even more.... i believe that is what this table was for

This is just about the most beautiful place I've ever seen, from the outside at least, it doesn't look any bit of being abandoned, like there are still people working and being treated there.
I never knew that there were any "mental" hospitals in my area, but Clarinda is about an hour away from where I am. I go through there at least 3-5 times each year and never knew it..

wow werid pic.