609 Comments for Rathen State Hospital

I love the white door. It really draws your eyes towards it and then down the white hallway. It is odd to see white in a place like this it seems because they seemed to prefer pepto pinks, bovine browns or gross greens. :)

Now THAT is more like it! Less sci-fi and more...1950's laundromat lol. :)

It DOES look like an IPOD. Sheesh. I'd hate to have to plug that stinker in lol. :D

Umm...if you climbed in here would you be transported to another dimension?

This looks awfully sci-fi to me lol!

This is a very lonely shot. I can't imagine looking out the window as Larry said, just thinking about family on the "outside" perhaps and hearing people outside (nurses or others going off-shift) and feeling so sad and trapped...

I DON'T WANNA GO TO SLEEP YET!! I am NOT TIRED! :D

Something about metal doors make me shiver...too much like a prison! Eeek.

(Note: Fantasy Island was actually later on in 1977 but I was still only 8 and my brother was 5 then)...

Uh...December 1974 I was just getting ready to turn 6 years old. I was in Kindergarten and life was paste, crayons, and markers and lots of colored paper to make art for my mommy. I don't remember what the fashions were at that time as I had NO say in what I wore, but I do remember the funky music of the time. My mom and her first husband were still together and I remember them going out to the disco on Saturday nights and how the babysitter used to come and watch me and my then year-old brother, and how we used to watch Good Times and M*A*S*H and Fantasy Island on TV until it was time to go to bed. I remember the babysitter letting me stay up just a little later to watch TV with her. :) I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything. :)

Eh...I think I will pass going down these steps! They seem awfully steep and I don't want to meet anything that is waiting down there for me....like (whispers) zombies!

Holy hannah Mr. Motts!! I bet you messed a pair of good jockeys (or tighty-whities) that day! I am glad you escaped because if you didn't...we wouldn't have these wonderful Motts galleries to look at!

I can't make out what is written on the wall either. It doesn't look like the English language so perhaps it is just scribblings of a bored soul like Ferdy said.

Oh that is SO pretty! It is like finding a pretty flower under decay and destruction...

I had to look twice to really SEE the tile. :)

Wow. Free air conditioning?

I can just imagine myself wandering around this room...lsickly, lonely, and just...lost. What a sad feeling that gives me to think of all the souls that were here and how medicine (and psychiatry) has changed since this place was in use...

Gah...not Pepto Bismol Pink but Mint Chocolate Chip meets Radiation-Glow Green!

This makes me feel nauseous and fascinated at the same time. :D

OK...see that form by the far door? Doesn't that look like someone sort of lounging by the door...sitting on something with one knee up and the head bent a little? Or is that just me?

It's an Inkblot Test lol!

I see...TREES...and a MAN...and...well...pretty bunnies hopping around the ceiling. (Too much?)

I agree with Ferdy and the rest. I thought it was little licks of flame too when I first glanced at it. How weird that is!

I wonder if I would hit my head on that box...I am pretty short lol!