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Thanks Melissa, now i am going to be staring at this all night trying to figure it out. ; )

This looks like part 2 to the set of pics where everyone was trying to figure out what the devil is saying at the top of the stairs!

Hz... as in Hertz. House electricity is 120V @ 60 Hz. Presumably, they were trying to keep very close track on thier frequency output. I worked at an off-shore ligthhouse once... the throttle of the diesel generator controlled the output AC frequency.

I remember as a child going down that medal slide with a peice of wax paper to go as fast as we could. I love this photo...good job.

My first appartment was painted like this. There was a piece of molding at about 7 feet up and everything above it was painted white. I think it's from the time when we were more dependent on natural light. The white upper part made the room brighter and the colored lower part reduced the glare.

the strangest thing about this shot to my mind is the fact that the urinal appears to have a kneeler in front of it... much like the ones you see in front of the little religious shrines in Catholic Churches! Gives new meaning to "bowing before the porcelain god".

And the offer still stands. If you need the original 'Wierd NJ' magazine article about Byberry email me...

badboybacky at hotmail.com

Also available in the files section of one of my Yahoo groups...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abandonedshoes/

I'm glad everybody is enjoying it. A lot of thoughtful insight into the how and why of Byberry.

maybe its just me but i think those chairs look incedibley cool,top site by the way

It might be just to save time and money... these ceilings are very tall, and the rooms are usually painted over and over again, so instead of lugging the 12' ladder into each room and paying for all the extra paint they just square it off.

As a kid I was scared poopless of this place, we'd drive by on our way someplace and it kinda has a greenish glow to it. Now I just want to go inside it, but there's the whole "got no balls" thing.

I really don't remember, I think there was a sink, not sure about the toilet. After seeing 50+ of these places they start to melt together in my memory!

This might have been covered & I missed it, but why doesn't the color go all the way to the ceiling in most of these rooms? There is a clear line in almost every one of these that the color doesn't go past. Any idea why?

The hospital closed in 1996, but this building could've been closed much earlier... it's difficult to find such specific information.

I always thought the long exposure night shots looked fake, like something generated in 3D Studio Max or a similar program. Here's a good example: http://www.opacity.us/gallery81.htm
All of them look that way, in varying degrees. I know Motts took the pictures, and I'm just amazed by them, but they still look like CG.

Where is this asylum? It looks great.