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I live in Goshen, and it's a bunch of rich, cheap snobs, they're probably level the place before they're done!

I've been on that property before with my friends, but I never saw that before!

I live in this town and there was a lot of vandalism within the buildings of the Salesian property, a couple of years ago some "punk rocker" kids in my school started a fire there and there was police investigation... now it's torn down. There really was no point in trying to save it, you could see it from the street and it was basically a piece of shite..

Its a sweet shot, its creepy but i love it.

its great, really dark but yet there is still
light at the end of the hall, its just plain Sweet.

This is probably my most favorite shot, ever.

My god, this place really had some great color for you to work with. You're so great, Motts.

Where was the ward located? For some reason they always seem to put the violent ward farthest away from whe center of the building. At Danvers, the violent wards, were on the third floor in the A and J building. So if the ward is as far away from the center of a Kirkbride style building, as you can get, it's the violent ward. Guaranteed to be a major hike when a general help call is made.

Yeah it's typical slang used in most Mass. state hospitals. At least it is at the one I work at currently, and also at the one I used to work at DSH

Motts:If only I had a blacklit flashlight...


Note to self find one somewhere. Bring it.

Also, the Frigtzone dark ride at Errieview Park has a mad doctor and other Tracy figures.

http://www.laffintheda...rieview/erieview.htm

Thanks John. for that clarification. On the last hallway, bottom floor, there also was a giant bat swooping overhead, but that was gone when I last rode in 1984. The torture scene was on the second floor. It was the first major scene you saw after going up the lift hill, and going out over the baloney. The hall you came down after coming in from the baloney did look like a cave. The scenes I recall on the second floor were torture, mad doctor, giant spider, and Knit Wit (which some people referred to as Mrs. Bates) . It was all Tracy stuff. Trimper's has a Tracy giant bat and a Knit Wit, but the executions are different. http://www.laffintheda...es/trimpers/thh3.htm

This reminds me (for some reason) of the slang staff used at Belchertown State School: when we checked the wards at night, we were "tripping" the wards; if we had to cover a shift at some building we didn't normally work at we "floated" to that building. I'm sure there's more slang, but I can't recall it (too much tripping and floating?) I wonder if that was just BSS slang or if it was used at most state institutions. Anyone know?

Yes, usually a staff person would supervise the entire cafeteria from up there, not only to watch for possible choking , but to watch for any disturbances: fights, stealing, etc. There'd be staff at the tables too, but of course the views were more obstructed "on the floor".

the wall looks like it it is coming up from the bottem see theres a hole at the bottem