4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

The stained glass throughout this facility is amazing. I love the way the colors splash the walls, floors, and ceilings throughout this set. Absolutely amazing.

My first thought when I saw this pic was:

"Yeah, I'm just here to change a light bulb"

*reaches up*
*BBBBZZZZTTTTT*

"OH GOD MY HAND!!!!! Can someone grab that for me?!?!?!"

*Taubin wanders off laughing hysterically*

All this talk about "ink sniffing" makes me wonder about some of you = P

Still a very cool photograph though = )

Are them a pair of (doves?) above the "Welcome"?

Seems to be extremely welcoming. Very serene.

Thanks for the info jubal!

They are ash silos. The coal ash from the boilers furnace was sucked via vavuum and stored in these and periodically emptied from the bottom into dump trucks. Corroison could be rampant because coal ash + water = sulfuric acid. A thousand thank-yous to Mr. Mott for the many hours I have spent on this site.

I,M Thinking it,s an Office

the chair closes to you on the right hand side looks like ritter motor chair perhaps... just thought i'd share that bit of useless information

Yup!

I'm glad to hear that the owner took the fans down. It's a shame two of them got lifted, though.

If getting in touch with the owner of the building is not possible, I keep a watch out for activity at the place, so maybe I could drive up, or walk up and ask someone about the fans or whatever in person. That's just my 2 cents.

Any idea what the hardbound book sitting on the top left was? I doubt the copier manual was bound like that.

I guess that when they transfered the residents from here to where ever it was they wound up it was just much more easy to buy them all new toothbrushes rather than ship all these? Just a thought? Still. Creepy really... AND I'm a bit OCD and very picky about my personal belongings. I would of not done well if I had to give over my toothbrush. To my way of thinking, I would not of been able to abide the idea and very real possibility that my toothbrush was being housed with and possibly dripped upon from other people, (strangers) spitty, drippy toothbrushes. Yuck yuck nastygross! But like I said I'm a bit OCD and germs, especially public strangers germs are a thing with me.

Fan. Collecting. Well I guess you learn something new every day. I'm still shaking my head over this whole section of comments. I had no idea people collected old fans nor did I know that the fan collection world was so lively. Ah well I guess people collecting old fans isn't any stranger than people collecting old cars or TVs or anything else old people collect...

Fan? Collecting? Oh my! This really is the oddest thred yet that I have read. It has got my head spinning round and round. BTW that is a rather creepy fan. I'd bet, if it ran, a lot of dust and crud would billow out... Also the shadow of the blades is a bit strange and unnerving. It looks like it could remove a finger or two, the blades... Nways...

It's like a bad wound in the attempt to create beauty.