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Haha well if you had a train out early in them orning then it would make ense to stay right in the hotel. When I saw the tower I figured it might be. Just a thought I suppose.

haha I figured but it looked pretty dam real eh?

Well then we just found the cause of insanity and TB, you get TB from eating poisonous berries and that drives you crazy!

I'm going to jump on the bandwagon here only because these are the images that frighten me the most and I have to just share...While places like Pennhurst with the overt abuse and mistreatment no longer exist, everyday I see adults abusing kids that we're meant to take care of. Some of these kids have psychiatric disorders that cause them to have frightening flashbacks and instead of comforting them, I frequently watch staff downgrade them or, worse yet, put their hands on them. In fact there was an incident a few days ago where a staff member was let go for child abuse. Somehow it seems that Human Services attracts a lot of people with power and control and THAT is what makes these pictures so haunting. To know that adults took advantage of these kids.

State Schools frighten me even more than asylums do. Working at a residential facility, it's nothing more than a glorified state school. Sometimes I think snake pit characterizes my school better than it did Danvers!

Thanks to Lynne who was the only one who responded to a recent post of mine about the book I'm writing. Looking at these pictures can be so much more powerful when you know something about the system and how it works, or fails to work, for that matter. I work with kids who have psychiatric problems and it's heartbreaking to see them slip through the cracks, knowing that they will someday become the adults that no one will know how to care for.

Lynne's insight is priceless when it comes to these institutions and she has a wealth of knowledge and experience the rest of us can only hope to gain. Knowing what she knows makes it all that harder to see these places destroyed and to continue to smack our heads against the brick wall that is our failing mental health system. We continue to employ minimum wage, high school dropouts to care for our mentally ill and then wonder why our prisons are full.

Believe me, Lynne isn't the only one with plenty to rant about!!

Did anyone think to point out that occupational therapy has nothing to do with jobs??

completely fucked up. Would u recomend going their at night becasue we are thinking about it?

I never knew them to make those glazed block in different colors. Iv always have seen them as that tan or a light brown.

It pic is a image of my dreams. Exelent!

In spanish: Pense que ese lugar que veia tan seguido en mis sueños, no existia, pero ahora me doy cuenta de que esta en algun lugar.
Gracias.

and he huffed..... and he puffed...... and he blew the wall in.....

I'ld say you saw right. The name rang a bell with me as well. A Google search did not produce a website, but I did get their address...

Buffalo Safe & Lock Co
(716)674-1127
4063 Seneca St
West Seneca, NY 14224

Don't sneeze, morgal!

Oh god, I love built in drawers.

There was this beautiful blackn'gold safe at this abandoned building by the waterfront where I live. Closed though :(. I'm trying to remember the name, but all I come up with is "Buffalo Safe Co." which might not be it. I'm going back sometime and bringing my camera.