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Maybe it's my imagination, but I
feel something like fear coming from
this photo.

That's something you don't see every day!! A MONSTER greenhouse

to me how dare you say that father andy had you on your knees and still say god bless everone you should be ashame even to think it

Candy for the canned..how ironic and odd!!!

The First Sign
And God said,
At the time of fullness, cleanse the
world with my rage.
Gather forth the White Oil, the Black
Cup and the Blood of the Ten Sinners.
Prepare for the Ritual of the Holy
Assumption.

it is the space that created this photo! u remind the stalker!

My family used to own and operate the park. It has been years now and my parents are long gone, but the pictures bring back many memories.i also still have alot of smaller items from the park that i look at from time to time when i am feeling sentimental. thanks for the pictures.

have to agree with you shy as if it were a restraint the open ended "S" hooks would not offer much 'restraint'

Lynne thanks!!!! It seems some people don't understand that alot of the equip found in these places could be found in any other 'normal' health facility as most of these places provided all the same medical services that a conventional hospital would. Not everyone that worked in these facilities felt an uncontrollable desire to place another human in a camisole or 4/5 point bed restraint. If thats what someone is into go to an S&M site.

Like Ellis posted before, Asylums became a dumping ground for the unwanted, sometimes whether they had any mental illness at all. Many of the old institutions had cemetaries on site. This was done the same way most cities have an old Potter's feild. Hart's Island is a 'Potter's' feild in NYC that is operated and maintaned by DOCS. The state most likely in an effort to reduce costs (who want's to pay more taxes to take care of people nobody wants was the common though and unfortunately is still true in some cases today), probably reused this decorative casket and then transferred the interred to a plain pine box.

drBob, I currently work in a Psych Center and I have to agree with you about how neat and clean the wards are. If the walls aren't being painted the floors are being waxed (much like a 'normal' hospital)

Someone's name being posted throughout a facility such as this is not a violation of there privacy (or HIPAA). Any PHI (protected health information) that is to be thrown out must be shredded or otherwise destroyed. The facility that I work at never seems to stop giving us training with HIPAA.

My mother signed herself into Danvers State twice in the late 50's early 60's. I was told she had nervous breakdowns. She told us about being given shock treatments and some horrible things she saw in the tunnels going from one bldg. to the next. I went up there a week or so ago just out of curiosity. I didn't know they were arresting people. Some guys in a truck waved at me as they were leaving. I thought I was going to be sick. I remember my father telling me to look up and wave but I couldn't see her. She must have been in this building. I wished I had brought a camera. Thanks for these pictures

So disturbing, like the cadaver of a young women in the morgue. Life, but no life, history but no history. The photo relays the depth of it all. Much more than I expected. The series said a lot more than realized. Again, good show, Motts.

This looks like soot from smoke. was there fire damage in the aria?