747 Comments for Foster State Hospital

No they looked like financial data printouts.

I love the stone on the walls! It makes me think of an era gone by where everything was built with care and with some artistic flair to it...unlike now where everything is pre-made and just thrown together with no love.

I am totally laughing over here! Motts, I dont think i have ever seen you say anything like this before, hahaha, ROTF.@ the comments, LOL. Has anyone noticed that among these strange men babies sits a * woman* with Rubella/ German Measles!?

No it was quite mummified.

I had no idea about that album cover, funny! Wonder who shot it.

I think latex and oil based paint peel differently.

It is kind of sad to see the piano laying there, almost dejected and rejected...and to see the before picture when it was all sunny and people could enjoy the sun's warmth and the after picture where it just looks...empty and neglected--almost brings a tear to my eye.

Yes Quaaludes are a barbiturate; I'm guessing it's a twist on the already wry humor (preparing one's self for leaving the staff area and entering the wards).

DANG IT Mr. Motts! You forgot to take the rest of the garbage to the curb. Heeehee.

I love the brickwork showing through the paint on the walls. It is so pretty.

I think it's a bed frame. There were also "safety" beds stacked in one of these rooms, which are just molded blocks of plastic which are difficult to hurt oneself with.

What was behind that door...or whatever it is...that is the question for the ages...

It does look odd to have such color right smack in the middle of such...white-ness. :)

I agree with everyone else's comments. I love the color on the wall! That is my fave color right there. :) My first thought was DANG that looks like our old house as we were getting ready to move out! We had boxes everywhere, just like this lol. :)

The rest of the building; this day room was at the end of the wing.

That animal/ critter has been dragging itself down this hall too! oh my! :)

The floors were solid concrete.

I believe the historic photograph was taken after the veterans had moved out and the men's wing was completed, so they should be regular psychiatric patients.

Things looked very different during the early years of psychiatric care in the U.S.; take a look at this patient room for instance. Voluntary admission was quite common, and these patients paid money to be treated at what were top-notch hospitals for the insane. Everything went downhill due to a number of factors, including the lack of funding, public stigma, and overcrowding. The book Death of the Asylum analyzes this process in detail.

Yeah...we wanna know what is IN that cabinet!

It is saying..."SHHHHH!! You don't see me...I am not even here...it's alllll in your imagination..." :D