856 Comments for Rockland Psychiatric Center

Yep.

I love clowns: they're good to scare people with! :)
I know a few guys who do the clown thing for the shriners, and they are the kindest, gentlest people I've ever met. I can't imagine any of them doing anything to hurt even a fly. They just happen to look scary as hell when they have their makeup on...

Oh, that's hilarous...and what exactly were they expecting to hear?

(also, correction on my previous post, should be "Kim Carnes' album"- stickler for punctuation and grammar)

You're right about the Kim Carnes record. They tryed playing "Bette Davis Eyes" backwards to see if it has any secret messages in it.

I'm with the camp that would want to read the diaries out of curiosity. I think it would be fascinating insight to what life was like in an asylum back in those days.

On a side note, I can understand why someone would want to discard an old Kim Carne's album, though. Hehe.

So funny to see how many people don't like clowns and think they are evil...me included :)

Is that bird crap on the pipes and all over the top of that one projector?

Me too, Lynne!

Yeah, silkster - I agree. They look like they're scabby and bleeding.

Looks very dungeon-y.

I'm with you, Erin. I'd like to just look through this stuff. Not to take anything, just curiosity. I doubt that all this was "just discarded". If some of the stuff was from the 40's, maybe the people who owned it had died a long time ago, and had no family. No one to come and claim it. The more recent stuff could have been left in there as time went by, if no ones family (maybe they had no family, either) came to claim it.
Motts was this a real large room? It looks like they had to start in the back, and fill it towards the door....there's no room to walk! Is the older stuff back further, or is it all lumped together, as if it was put there over time...?

I would give almost anything to be able to look through some of these things. I don't mean in a disrespectful way but I am very curious to what patients in a phsyciatric hospital would write in a diary.

Face wash? Did you try it Mr. Motts? ;)

~Me: Really? I dress up as a clown on random days to scare OTHER people... Hmmmm.... :D

Mr. Lynne's Husband: It was my fault, really! Don't get Lynne a straight jacket, because I like my ass in its unkicked form! :D

Lynne: Ok, I think you're safe now... $100 US doesn't sound too bad for them. The one I saw was almost $500 US! I hadn't even thought to check with the S&M crowd. Now how will I explain it to Mrs. Sketch? "Ummm, yeah, I'm just looking for a straight jacket, nothing dirty here at all..." :D I'll say it's for ~Me...

Thanks again for looking this up!