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ggod grief, i was 11yrs old in 85, what a bunch of youngsters!!!

No, not enough time and daylight to see the whole basement.

In old maintenance, there's dozens of EVERYTHING just lying about scattered.

In 2000 the Ride above caught on fire due to tresspasser and by the time the firedepartment arrived several surrounding buildings were also on fire. The fire department had to fight the other fires to get close enough to put out this one. The City started to remove the building but stopped because someone wanted to buy it. This was in the paper a week after the fire (Telegram and Gazzete in MA)

I have been in this room and the group i was with found a "chest" of documents

in the documents there was a three ring binder about 5 inches think.

it was completly filled with files of patients and how they died, why they died, when where and the regular stuff...

the odd part of it was that most patients had died from "restraints" or "patient got out of hand, doctors(or nurses) handled"

the worst part was in the back of the binder there was a tally sheet of the operations for 3 doctors..

under each docotrs naem there was a spot for deaths on the table, death form complications, and survivals..

a good 75% died on the table while a few others died form complications..... very few survived the operations

The boards are makeshift supports to help prevent the building from collapsing. I believe it was the only preservation effort made sometime back in the 1970's.

I'm pretty sure it was all there...

Candace made it for a film project, it involves some sort of syrup but I don't know the exact recipe.

Thanks Bri, yes it is the entrance to the violent ward.

Looking at these pictures, of what used to be a grand hotel, Is truly hearbreaking!
My memory of my times up at the Pines so rich , so vivid in my mind and memory. The true tapestry of this once great place
and my memory of it should be in a book or a museum!

Thanks, FB Jim. It's good to have a name attached to the ship. I love this shot.

Thanks, Kate!

Seeing the art in the stonework of this building makes me want to join a preservation group as soon as possible. Any thoughts people? Do you think those boards were put there by urban exlporers to gain access? One looks like remnants of a rough ladder.

"Oh Romeo, Romeo! Where for art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name or if thou wilt not be but sworn my love and I'll no longer be a Capulet."

Ahhhhhhhhhh...memories...

Looks like a near-shore naval vessel of some sort to me.

the two ships are drawing comfort from each other in their long seclusion. Better to be dying with a friend than stuck alone in some museum.