747 Comments for Foster State Hospital

oh no. . MORE boxes. . .

That peach color reminds me of a kitchen color we had back in the 1970's.

LOL, that's a funny comment, Mr. Motts.

LOL, chrissy82, that's exactly what I thought as soon as the photo appeared! Odd there are no rear handles for someone to push this chair from behind.

Oh god, more boxes. I know it's not "proper" but I would have a hard time NOT going through all of the boxes in this place (tells you what kind of active social life I have HAHA)

Yes, I agree, Goodspeed.

Good comment, Butterfly. Maybe that is the entrance to a day room? The windows to the sides and above, are a nice detail. I assume the ceilings were very high.

What's that thing on the outside? Almost looks like where the faucet would be, but on the outside?

How neat that in the white door, the blue paint is framed in the glass window.

Wow, nice shot and angle. You can imagine the beauty of the place, then and now.

How cool is this -

Amazing. I guess that is lead-based paint?

Motts goes back in time to snap a photo of the same spot.

I wonder why they blocked out the narrow windows on each side of that window. I kind of like the look of it the old way.

Some more recent visitor has scratched out B.P. and way to the left of it has written in Qualudes, which I think are some sort of tranquilizer used by drug addicts (and others). I think, I'm not sure.

Yech! Looks like a pile of hair, etc. that was gathered by a chipmunk or squirrel to be a nest, but they usually don't nest right in the middle of the floor (which is where I assume this is?).