4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

My absolute favorite of all the similar websites that I have visited, excellent in every way! I lived for many years, not too far from this hospital, and never realized that it existed. I would have loved to have seen it before it fell to its present condition - What a shame! It is sad, like finding a vintage, classic Packard, rotting away in a grown-up and abandoned junk-yard. A magnificient and beautiful product from the age of skilled and caring craftsmen, something hard to come by these days . . . . .

Yup, all empty...

Did they use oil for heating as well?

It's interesting that they piped the steam all around for electricity rather than channel it into one big turbine & turn it into electrical power that could be sent through wires?

Was the steam just used for heating? before anything electrical was used here?

A good find, I see it's got a couple of fans!

There's a frame of a table there in the shadows. The top is either missing or it just held a tray that could be carried away.

This reminds me of one of those chases in Scooby Doo where they ramdomly pop out of different door.

Almost a park bandstand.

This reminds me of the roller blind in my old bathroom. I used to tie my sister's flannel to the cord & roll it up so it would be 7 feet in the air & my sister was only 4 feet something & couldn't reach it!

I looks like it has a feeder for multiple sheets, even double sided copying.

I've used a few like this in my time.

I wonder what the little door in the wall is for?

There seem to be some paint pots there as well.

Are the compostied printing plates were saw earlier used on this.

I remember a couple of schools I went to used spirit duplictors similar to the ones mentioned above, with strange purple ink.

Is that a phone on the right? late 1970s - 1980s I would guess.

A couple of museums have mock-ups of old print shops with type set up like this.

I have a custom rubber stamp set which I can set up a few lines of text I intend to use a few time like a letterhead.