747 Comments for Foster State Hospital

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The bubbling and peeling paint looks almost like a wallpaper pattern on first glance. Great picture.
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You are right Mr. Motts these are some uggggly baby/toddlers on that poster. We have the same poster at the Medical facility I work at wonder why they don't update them to look normal.
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It's a raccoon. Possums have a prominent ridge on their skulls, and they do not have hairy ears. The paw protectively guarding the plastic lid from a Roy Rogers beverage cup (!!) does not have a "thumb" like a possum. It has 5 long, straight, raccoon toes.
This is one of my favorite pictures on this site so far.The Roy Rogers drink lid is arguably the best thing about it :D
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Office. Polite. for payments, and tickets and whatnot
Cool door
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That little button-lamp is still evident in this day room
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Yes, N.
Goodness - is that one long radiator under the windows? Cosy.
Thank you for the historical picture. Gives depth.
YES: suit+tie, vest also, back in the days - there was not much of anything else, for men, not wearing work clothes. Dressed up + polished shoes, every day. My Grand-Dad did this dressing; born 1883.
Dress-code has changed a lot.
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The place with LOW door-knobs. I just love that lock.
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Yes - concur Rose. Still crazy after all these years - and the hues shades tints - it is a delicious edible color - like the best banana and vanilla ice-cream - it is still very beautiful, but goodness how precious must have been when in order + shape. An office?
Thanks Mr. M.
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bravo I absolutely love this shot. thanks for another great gallery:)
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the chair and bowl on the floor seem suspect to me:)
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infamous lone bed frame.
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ah ha, finally the lone gurney.
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This picture appeals to me highly.
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It's a nightmare!
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Hydrotherapy comes in two types: hot and cold, with the idea being that you'd use the hot water to calm down agitated patients and the cold to stimulate and hopefully "wake up" catatonic patients.

The former had a little bit of success, but immediately went out of favor once Thorazine hit the US market in 1954: it works MUCH better at calming down an agitated schizophrenic person. The latter never worked, but they kept trying.

I truly have no idea why they'd give a patient BOTH kinds. That sounds like the pre-1950s era "better to try something useless than lock them in their rooms all day" type of thinking that predominated back then.