856 Comments for Rockland Psychiatric Center

Simplex "XL" projector heads. Simplex "4-star" sound heads. Peerless Model "E" Lamphouses. Quite a find. Too bad that these machines couldn't be removed and sold - to project film once again to new owners.

Really great shot!

Steven King's "IT", can't sleep clowns will eat me! LOL

clasic, ive always heard of these places and looked for them in many but never actually seena room with padded walls before. excellent work

no mental hospital is complete without one of those. the one i found was hanging upside down in a tunnel.

I like this one a lot. Good clash of color and just the right amount of dutch angle!

Check out those switches at the top of the console, it's an electric organ, big in the 60's and 70's. I think the inverted keys are bass keys. Some deluxe upright organs had a couple dozen bass pedals for the professional musician.

That's very observant.

They do look in great shape, but save a few drive-ins of the ones that are still running, carbon-arc lamphouses are no longer in use anywhere (or wanted due to their short lamp burning time). Today's multiplexes have simplier, more automation-driven machines.

I noticed they always seem to take the lenses. I guess because they were easy to remove and worth a heavy buck.

Yeah Bassman, I don't know if its a Hammond or not, but it definitely is a dual keyboard organ, and not a piano. A piano would only have a single keyboard.

Radical Ed, it IS a Kim Carnes album! (I googled) It's the 'Mistaken Identity Collection'

*sings* "She's got Bette Davis Eyes"

While some of those diaries would no doubt be fascinating reads I can understand perfectly why Mott would not post them online.It's disrespectful to these people,the lives they led,and their families.

I didn't want to post this in case someone got offended (and if you take offense I apologize in advance), but speaking of song lyrics, all 3 of the following songs have "leave me alone I want to go home" or something similar in them (Big D and the Kids Table - "G.L.D.", Marty Robbins - "Devil Woman", and the Beach Boys - "Sloop John B"). I was actually humming "Devil Woman" under my breath when I saw this the first time.

As an FYI and as your friendly curbside consulting psychologist this particular message is not something I personally would be too worried about unless there was a lot more to go with it. Truthfully it sounds a lot more like someone signing their yearbook at the end of the school year, or someone writing on the wall of some place they aren't supposed to be.

With any interpretation of notes, messages, and pictures, you have to have the context or you will make some pretty piss-poor diagnoses. Ironically, this is exactly the reason why so many people ended up locked in asylums in the past. All it took was the context of thinking that someone might be "disturbed" and then the presence of any note, message, or picture would be reinterpreted as a sign of sickness. That was the entire message of the Rosenhan experiment someone mentioned in another posting - that as soon as you are told that someone is mentally ill you start looking at everything in that context and omitting anything that smacks of mental health. If you know this note is on the wall of a secure facility it becomes a sign of mental illness. If you see this in someone's high school yearbook it doesn't look that "sick" at all.

However, I admit that it's always more fun for people to think they are eavesdropping on the ravings of disturbed minds - until they have to be in the same room with them. ;-)

A Very Powerful Picture And A Very Emoitional Poem Very Good Find