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wonder what the funny shaped bulb on the toilet bowl is for...

"Do not go quietly into the Night, Rage, Rage

Dammit, I expected to see a "TURN IT OFF, MY GOD THE PAIN" intensity.

Holy crap. We still have the same suction regulators at the hospital where I work.

if this is the place I think it is, part of the facility is still being used. There are newer buildings ca. 1960-1980 in the back of the grounds. You would think they would cut the power to the abandoned buildings tho...unless they want them to burn down.

This looks very much like a place I was familiar with in Maryland, and since it is paired with another site in Maryland, I'm guessing this is the same place. If so, I knew someone who worked there as her first job as a teenager. She described caring for and bathing a 65-year-old woman who had been a vegetable since birth.

I also knew someone who grew up there. From what I know of it, it was basically a home for children and adults who were profoundly retarded, many of whom were basically vegetables. So most of what you are seeing is probably the equipment needed to bathe and care for people who were unable to sit or stand. However, they apparently took overflow from local orphanages. My friend who grew up there was an orphan or was abandoned, I don't think she knew which. She was functionally retarded, but apparently was not placed there for that reason. She may have just suffered a complete lack of stimulation in that place . There apparently weren't many other children there who functioned as well as she did, so she wouldn't have had anyone to talk to.

I like how the paint is peeling along the edge of that one mold. It looks like it's exploded out from the wood or something.

"The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight."

A baby prison cell with a soap dispenser on the wall above. Those gosh darned baby convicts!

HA!

Mr. Motts,
I have recently discovered that there are others in the world who share my fascination with abandoned buildings. Your pictures have caused me to stay up much too late, and I am obviously not alone. I have looked at a number of wonderful sites in the past week but your work gives me the joy of feeling that I am in the building. I would willingly purchase (or ask a family member to purchase for me as a Christmas gift!) a book of your explorations. Thank you!

It's across the street from Suds Beer Takeout, actually...

"Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous Creator of the world."

I'd go.....wish I COULD!

Listen to Radical Ed. If it was near a beer distributor, he would know.