4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

This shot really brings it home, even though we sit here on our comps looking at these pics, hhere it is.... people really did live here in varying degrees of illness, something so personal, left behind, on purpose I think to remend us that there is a history ......

I'm sorry I am not usually the type of person who likes to argue but this really burns my butt!! To all of those who are really "tresspassing" the ones who are stealing, damaging, partying and playing around in these buildings; you are the ones that need to be kept out!!! You are the reason that these buildins have to be boarded up. walled up and patroled regularly. Could you imagine if they could take the money that they have to spend on security and possibly use that money to make it reativly safer for people like Mr. Motts and the like to go in and record their history? At the very least you guy that have no respect for these ancient artifacts other thatn the cheap thrill and the all mighty dollaar arre the problems here making it harder and harder for the UEs who just want to capture a diamond in the rough, a thing of beauty that at the rate this world is going will soon be forgotten. Thank you Motts for the work that you do! Because of your insight and remarkable talent these relics will be recorded forever.

Again, These hallways just speak to me. Thinking about the people who lived and worked here. And with the light pouring in for the rooms, the windows at the end like eyes looking out hopefully.... Thanms Motts for another great shot. Shout out to Kathy who is down here somewhere visiting anew as well.

It's kinda cool the slight wavy effect you get when you stitch pictures together taken with a wide angle lens.

Heh I read it! After seeing the churches posted today, the link from one sent me traveling back to Riverside! And once again, I am going through every one of the galleries!

91 toothbrushes at the time of this photo, They once belonged to real people with real illnesses. Theres hoping that many of them got their life back!

That is a Mimeograph first patented by thomas edison in 1889 this one looks like it could be from the 30's

did you go to the end of the drop to see if anyone was alive or dead from the fall?

And AWAYYYY WEEE GOOOOOO!!

there comes a point in the life off all office equipment where it just is not practical to hold on to. We had a lease on a copier, I swear it was the first one ever made. The thing weighed a TON. Well, we ordered a new one and the company just wanted to leave the old one behind. They told us to toss (or push) it in the storeroom because they would charge us money to remove it. SO I imagine rather than pay money to haul this behemouth to a new location, it was cheaper just to order a new one. Same with furniture, file cabinets, fax machines etc. Speaking of fax machines. I would LOVE to find one of the first kind wherer you placed the phone handset in a cradle, put a piece of paper on this roller device, clamped it down with a metal piece, closed the lid and it would start to rotate. A pen device would scan across the rotating paper and after five minutes or more, you had your fax. Usually unreadable, but still pretty neat. We're talking late 1970's technology. Love old technology!!

just think of all the unclean teeth now that these are left behind. . . very emotional

The red hose looks like it was used for the "Big E" -

I've always had a fear of falling through a floor.

Here I go with my 2 cents, even though a little late. For me it isn't fans, it's jukeboxes I collect and restore. But I do it for the love of the machines, not to resell. The collectors who are out there to make a buck ruined it for a lot of us who just wanted to collect the machines for personal enjoyment. I recall finding jukeboxes in basements, garages, and attics (yes, attics) and paying $50 for them. Now you can't touch them for under many hundreds if original or thousands if restored. It's true I sold my share of them but only when I had to or needed the money. I also have a fondness for old buildings too and when the old clothing store I worked at in the 1970's was remodeling the front I asked if I could have the transom that was over the main door. This thing was HUGE and all cut glass, extremely art-Deco with the building number in the center, parts of it frosted, it was a beauty! It was gorgeous and I kept it in my living room, in it's sold oak frame for years lit with a back light. People admired it and asked where it came from. Unfortunately the rung of a rocking chair hit it and it shattered into a million pieces. But the point is, I asked before I took it, even though they were tossing it in the dumpster. Keep up the good work Mr. Motts, you certainly are inspiring to a lot of people.

Are we sure it's a fire alarm? Are we sure it isn't... a soap dispenser?! I'm sorry! I had to!