4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

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SEEMS LIKE A WASTE TO LET THE STUFF JUST ROT...DENTAL CHAIRS ARE NOT CHEAP! WAS A DENTAL ASSISTANT LOL
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"I am absolutely stumped as to why such meticulous effort in the detail of the architecture / masonry was tended to, (aside from the typical styles of the period) knowing these structures were intended to house the insane. Nothing personal, but highly ornate construction for a " " ...
Perhaps the builders were related to the tenants?"
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Lynne, thanks again..... and thanks to Motts :-)
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You're right, Aliester, and I apologize. I notice I do tend to get unjustifiably defensive when someone calls a mental health facility a "nuthouse" and wonders if someone who builds a lovely home for people with problems should therefore also be classified as having problems. That was a totally uncalled for observation on my part and I'll not say anything else. The floor is yours. :-)
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Put your claws away Lynne. I thought personal opinion was allowed here. You saw no attitude toward the tenants ( called 'insane' because as Motts did note, this was an Insane Asylum). I see alot of commentary on this site, most of which is accepted as opinion without retort, and I notice also that you seem to be the only one who takes personal offense to the point of 'taking someone on'. No flames please.
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I remember my elemantary school had a mimeograph. They used to send us home with mimeograph memos for our parents. Never called them "mimeograms."
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Yeah, Orchid, sorta stole my thunder:
"Tetanus anyone?"
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Just don't let the abyss start talking to you, Kassie!
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Great cover art for a goth rock CD.
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You don't see such baroque masonwork on the utilitarian buildings of today.
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Remember those Fall-Out Shelter signs? You don't see many of those anymore!
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The Kirkbride irony:
Buildings intended to inspire a sense of loftiness and dignity always seem instead Gothic and spooky!
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First thought:
SATAN'S CASTLE.

Ooooooh!
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That's not a mimeograph. It's a duplicator. a very small Offset press that used oil-base ink and water with electrostatic plates. Almost every office building from 1920 to 1969 had a few of these in the basement. I ran one of these for almost fifteen years (this one looks like it might be made by Multi-graphic, AB-Dick, or American Type Foundry.) you put the ink in the tray that is close to the camera, with all the adjusting scews, paper in the other side, the plate on the large chrome cylinder

noisy and smelly, but a required element in a pre-xerographic office.
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Amityville a little