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Reminds me of that Electric 6 video....

not even scary

I agree, it looks like you are about to walk into hell.

I am ever so sorry to have missed your calls.

I was thinking the same thing too.

Wizid, I love hearing those who have expirience . It is really special. Gracious thanks for your insight.
Again, I'm so happy that there are people like you (with knowledge and experience) that are on site!
Thanks!

thank gorsh for inocence.

Washer-room makes sense. ;-)

Thanks Lynne, for that refreshing touch of reality. Don't the rest of you think about anything except tying people down??

As someone who works every day with folks with severe disabilities, I must say people are projecting their own issues onto this picture. Personally I am always thankful to find a picture that includes a person who uses a wheelchair to get around, and I find it frankly bizarre that someone would assume this means the child who uses the wheelchair is getting left behind when in fact this is a picture of inclusion, something you most certainly do not see very often out in the "normal world" that everyone thinks is so very marvy and so non-restrictive. In the "real world" folks with handicaps get ignored for the most part and aren't even IN most pictures.

Guess if it's a picture in an institution it must automatically be evil, since all institutions are evil. Black and white. Right and wrong. Good and bad. Everything or nothing. Hang-dang those shades of gray because they make people think through the issues, and that seems to be a lot to ask.

Another creepy, concentration camp-esque picture. Isnt there some eating disorder where people eat random objects?

Because of new laws, if you put a gait belt around a patient then fasten it around a chair, this is considered a restraint and you get fined big time for it.

Sorry to shoot down the "restraints" theory, but this just looks like a belt that would be fastened around a very weak patient to keep him or her from falling out of the chair. After all, this was a tuberculosis hospital, and those patients weren't exactly known for being violent.

During WWII the Nazis would stuff matresses and pillows with the hair of concentration camp prisoners. Its just a thought, and most likely a false one, but what if those pillows were stuffed with the hair of patients.

Beautiful, there is something about this photograph that seems almost artificial, as if it were some sort of mosaic or pixelated computer graphic.

Alexandra P.Clarke, Yes, there is an archive for Bennett and I would be happy to share my info if you'd like to email me: wrddreamer@comcast.net
Your pictures sound amazing and I too would love to see them. I grew up less then a mile from Bennett and have always loved this place. It defies description. My mom worked there in the late 60's-early 70's and I am an avid collector of Bennett memorabilia. This is the first time I've seen inside this awesome building however, so much appreciation to Mr.Mott for the incredible collection of pix.