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Sure Redz, just take your ticket, you can wait in the outtermost wing. They'll like you there =)

Stare girl-YES. I'm IN FOR IT! That sounds like an amazing idea! Although demolition has already begun at Davners. =(. I wish they wouldn't touch that goddamn Kirkbride. I can understand the other buildings, but that Krikbride...the main structure is just so beautiful.

Thanks Kate, the machine makes a little more sense now.

MMM burgers. LOL. Sounds like a neighborhood gathering. Even abandoned these hospitals still do some good. =)

Uh, another reason there might not have been windows in the tunnels, is that many of them were underground. I mean, it would just be damn depressing to look out a window and only see dirt.

heh. And surely a few bodies of the people Lynne had killed from her violent violent beatings...HAHA...right.

H mek-were you attending or just observing?

Neal, I never though that they would allow patientes to work in the doctors' homes, but in a way I suppose it's like having a job, and somewhat of a life again. Almost like your family is everyone in the hospital...:)

Ah, I suppose

Greac, not the one on the ground the ones above it .. soprry they look like orbs to me it might just actually be the light reflection.

SKYELAR

Neal,
Yes, thank you for the input about this huge facility. It makes it almost a complete package: Mott's wonderful photo expose' and your commentary combined are great. It's about as close as most of us will be to actually being there!

Lots of patients expired at PSH... listen to the noises in your own well-maintained home at night... multiply that 100-fold in these old buildings.. lots of noise.. I attended my first autopsy and surgery @ PSH in 1970.

Never saw jump nets when I was a nursing student there...

Thank you for all these wonderful photos, the website and the memories revisited. I'm sitting here, being totally transported to another time and place. I was a student at PSH, graduated in 1972.. moved to Houston, Tx in 1982. Love this site.. and will send classmates here.. thanks...

Patients were allowed outside, unattended and had boyfriends/girlfriends and got together. There were births and the babies were adopted. When my mother drove to PSH for the overnight stay to see if I would like to school there, we saw a black man walking arm-in-arm with a white, very pregnant woman.... looked ahppy and cozy together... it was a beautiful day for a walk... didn't see mixed couples very much back then...
This was an adult facility, BTW, to address someone's question on an earlier photo. Kids weren't admitted here.. there were other state facilities... a famous one was Willowbrook State School but that was in Staten Island... made Geraldo Rivera famous in his expose in the 1970's, but Long Island had state facilities for kidsin Huntington or somewhere not too far from there... I can't remember just now, where we as PSH students had to go for MHMR training. As a student I didn't see physical abuse, but lots of verbal abuse.. from the 'attendants' who were not well educated and 'institutionalized' in the true sense of the word, as well as the patients were...

In that case, for a building like this you are likely correct.
We've learned a bit in regards to housing/staff ratios.

I've said it before and I will say it again. Medicine is a practice.
Unfortunately, it takes a few screw ups to learn.