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Nevermind school of rock ... this is the school of HELL.

besides the utility fixtures, this could be
from many centuries ago in some other
faraway place

look at the bottom right hand side of the picture, looks like a human head print or something

well still it is a pretty good shot, all masks aside

naw man that shot is superfly

where the hallowman shoot out...

i want model maps of ALL the opacity
sites! and all the other buildings i love ,too!

The Washington & Baltimore Railroad
had a stop near the hospital.

The railroad line became
George Palmer in 1941
then the name was changed too
Martin Luther King Jr Highway-1986

The old railroad is now used for
bikers and runners.

Glenarden,Maryland

The clocktower is so beautiful against the blue sky.

Motts~
I have to tell you, I had no idea til I saw your site, how many hospitals and facilities there were and are, that were built to care for people with T.B., mental illness, and all the other things mentioned on your site.
Your pictures make the viewer imagine what it might have been like to be a patient or employee at any of these places.
To walk these many halls and live in these many rooms.
To try to imagine what it may have been like to walk in their shoes.
It's also interesting to be able to read the history of them as well as your experience in them.
And Lynne~ Your knowledge in this field, along with the many others who also know from personal experience and have shared what they know, help educate those of us, like myself, understand a little better what it was like to be behind these walls.
Thanks to all of you. : )

Couldn't have said it better myself, Serrena. :-)

Boo, if you are ever in the situation where you are forced to depend on others due to being in a fragile state (whether of your own making or not), you will wish there was someone in your corner taking personally what people say who don't have the first idea what they are talking about. Until you've been there you won't understand. That's both about living there and about working there. These aren't always fun places to work and they are places that very few of us (if any) would choose to live for more than a brief time. I believe that people should have accurate information about how these places used to be (both good and bad) and about how they currently are (both good and bad). It is bad enough that one of us might end up needing inpatient psychiatric services some day. Having false information about what happens there is not likely to allay any fears. I have seen as many bigoted, uninformed comments here as anywhere about people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities, and since they pay my salary, it behooves me to try to do a little public education on the side. Feel free to read right over my personal comments. It won't bother me the least little bit. :-)

Wow, thats amazing. I love old books and i think its sad that all that knowledge is rotting at our feet.

wow this is awesome, i wouldn't have enough balls to do that.

This is what happens when two posters hit "Submit" at the same time. *lol*

Boo - I'll give you a simple answer to that; Lynne takes this very personally because she's an employee of a State Hospital and would like to do her part to clear up some of the gross misconceptions laymen seem to have about the mental health care giving field.