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Jane says, I'm goin' away to Spain...Get my money saved...Gonna start again toMORRow...Oh...Uh...Oops...Got off track there. Very nice, Jane.

as did i, Kara Sunshine, as did i,

seeing these children's things reminds me of my own childhood, scary, yet almost seems normal because i never knew any other way when i was a child, being institutionalized sucks

i have been locked in a similar room before... its not any fun, lynn is right, when you're in there, you dont want any company, your troubles and issues are enough to crowd the room... :(

Oh wait, never mind I thought he/she said 'secret' not sacret, and I was gonna go down the dirty road again

Waverly Hills Sanatorium has swung into full renovation; it's a beautiful building: http://en.wikipedia.or...rly_Hills_Sanatorium

Johny, can you expound on your experience in the hospital. Thanks, the.umassstudent@gmail.com

now i have a better understanding of how patient abuse became so easy in these places being self sufficient kept locals away no one to blow the whistle so to speak on the treatment of patients

Let us not forget that this was a tuberculosis sanitarium and not a mental hospital when it was built. I have never heard of patient abuse being common in TB hospitals. Or could it be that this disease has become so uncommon that some folks don't know what TB is? Its a highly contagious bacterial disease that primarily attacks the lungs but can settle in bones and in other organs and systems. These hospitals weren't located in remote areas so sadistic people could torture the patients. They were located remotely to help keep the disease from spreading in the days before antibiotics.

Lynne, I read somewhere that the reason for having housing on site was also that the disease was so highly contagious that it was not uncommon for the staff to contract the disease and become patients themselves. Keeping all staff on grounds was just another way to help keep the epidemic in check.

I used to live and work on the grounds of an abandoned TB hospital. My boss at the time leased some of the buildings. That hospital included, at the time, nearly every building that had every been built on site, including stately houses for the doctors, dormitories for the nurses and orderlies, hospital buildings from the WWi era (cottages), medical buildings from the 30's or 40's and from the 60's, power plant, a dairy barn, pig barns and housing for the maintenence workers and farm workers. It has since been turned into a life care center, but I haven't seen it in nearly 20 years.

There is a really cool website on an abandoned sanitarium in Louisville. If I knew how to import links, I'd post it. Unfortunately I'm nearly computer illiterate. I believe the hospital is called Waverly, if anyone wants to look for it.

this was once a sacret spot to come and pray how dare you all to make a joke out of this i once went to this school and hold many a gopod memorie have you all forfotten the times we had mass there

Absolutely a poem in the realm of Emily Dickerson.

if there are any one left around 45 to 48 who attended school in these yrears please contact me at pculotta@tampabay.rr.com will like to hear from you

It's the photography, it's always been about the photography. Angles, shadows, identity, relationship, emotion and stuff.

The coridors of decay that lead nowhere but to a damn good photo. This is what is was all about, they never ended.

The great room for my imaginary mansion.

We used to have competive races down the corridors of these old tired out ruins. It was a combination of entertainment for our charges and for our own peverse jollies.