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yo im going up there this weekend i wanna see somthing scary

byberry is the shit fuck the police and the law

What looks fake about it?

This place closed in 96'??!!

I learned an interesting thing in color theory. Apparently, that institutional green color does have a calming affect, but I actually does not promote well-ness. A light blue might have been a better alternative...

Skye: Woohoo!!! Alice Cooper fans unite!

Motts: great pic! I love how the edges of the walls are starting to crumble on both sides...

Little late on the post here, but I felt the need to defend the use of Photoshop. When photography first started been viewed as art, those who considered themselves to be "true'" artists pooh-poohed the photographic artists as "hacks".
There are still some who consider photography to be "cheap" art. I am not one of them. As a photographic artist (featured in several private collections, including the permanent collection at the Chicago Musem of Art), I see photography as being no less a artistic medium than drawing, music, etc. Getting back to Photoshop...
It CAN be used as a crutch, but I have yet to see Motts as using it as anything more than a tool, much like Ansel Adams used "F/64 and be there" as a tool. Does the fact that Ansel Adams used filters, dodging/burning or push/pull processing make him any less of an artist? No, of course not. Photoshop is a tool, nothing more. Does Kevin still make his own processing chemicals? If not, would he consider buying them a "crutch"?

Re: Mark's comment - this was not a happy place! They closed this place down for mistreating residents. So Lynne's lengthy explainations about how the place wasn't really evil seem to me to be begging the question. Let's HOPE that the practices in a place closed for repeated violations are not anything like those of the places where Lynne has worked!

My perspective is a little different. As a children's advocate, I can tell you that hospitals can and do mistreat patients. Sometimes lack of privacy is used as a punishment. Sometimes the staff is too overworked to care. And sometimes, In the worst cases, individual caretakers consider the mentally ill, the retarded, and the (all too often) perfectly healthy minors imprisoned in these places by their parents as less than human and take pleasure in tormenting them.

I can't see a justification for two bathtubs in the same room with no curtains. It's inherently humiliating and it runs the risk of teaching the staff to think that humiliating patients is standard practice. In a nice, normal hospital, the staff may have to watch you bathe, but they go out of their way to maintain the illusion of caring about your dignity.

Not to mention - it's not safe. If these particular patients really do need constant supervision while bathing, two patients at once sounds like a very bad idea.

I'm a ghost hunter, and the first tinme that I have seen these images is today. There was a lot of abuse within these walls. Please don't take kindly to it. I have a real bad feeling about this place in whole. Thank you

Could this have been a therapy room rather than a bathroom? The stairs look a lot like stairs used for rehab, and the shower would have helped loosen up muscles before using the stairs. That would explain the medicine cabinet (probably things like bandaids, low dosage pain meds, etc for bumps and bruises). Motts, was there anything else that made it look like a bathroom (toilets, sinks, etc)?

I can't believe what I'm looking at. This was my favorite attraction as a kid.

I dunno... I've worked with the mentally ill as well... seems to me that compassion, not rudeness, is behind the comments that this place looks more like a zoo than a place for human beings.

The only electric lights that still work are the light posts along the driveways. I Know of a few people who have actually wired christmas lights on the roof of W-7. when I ran into them last weekend, they were all throwing the roof moldings off the roof.

Yes

You give new meaning to the term capturing an image... You Truly tell a story with your photos and i am lost in that world