395 Comments for Connecticut Valley Hospital

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Fascinating picture. Thinking of the patients who may have stared at this view for hours on end.
Love the lamps!
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@ Tony C. what happened at the toy factory if you don't mind me asking? I've been exploring for years, but I like to get input of warning signs from other people who have fell or stepped through floors for my (everyone else's) safety that explores. I'm just curious, I like to hear other peoples stories.

Mott's, I did hear about the inspector at Byberry, it's all a matter of time, I guess (and can happen at the least most expected places)
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Thnx for the great gallery Motts! Amazing how fast this place went to crap. Google Earth offers some 2010 aerials that show how grown in it had gotten around the place.
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Cool jug! There just had to be something tasty in that. Dad's root beer? A&W?
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Those are still fine. Just have to hack away a little harder, that's all.
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I guess the shooter girl got fired.
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Some of those are high dollar. Interesting they were left behind.
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There's no knobs inside for the latch so the zombies couldn't get out.
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Extra large catch basin with a big drain for all the chunks. Nice place to take nap.
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That one folds up to load into a meat wagon.
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Salvers obviously ate all the plumbing. The one hole can be seen and I'm sure there's more under the rubble for the supply lines.
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Twenty-three years or so of neglect, combined with New England winters can really tear through a structure.
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Skulls were opened for brain extractions. Er.. I mean, it's a hair salon. "We're gonna make you look PRETTY!" Uh-huh. They fell for it every time.
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It's a good thought; I'm pretty sure this room dead-ended at the end of a wing, and the materials don't look like 1890s construction. Looking at the floor plan vs. the aerial photo, you can see two wings have been added to the building. The small projection on the top left may have been this room:
http://opacity.us/imag...eeks-hall-aerial.jpg

My guess is 1930s by the looks of that door. The concrete forms do remind me of the hydrotherapy unit at Manteno State Hospital, which was constructed in that era. http://opacity.us/image6093_the_gold_room.htm so perhaps you're right! It's possible plumbing exists under the fallen plaster and debris.
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Seems these hallway floors were just heavy planks going side to side. Didn't seem to take long for them to fail after the roof started leaking.