856 Comments for Rockland Psychiatric Center

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..have no idea...what am seeing...
is that some net ovet the windows?
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Well, wanderer - birds of a feather flock togther - and yes,
........i found it too, shhh.
(No "Google Earth Street View," - yet, though, hahaha)
I do like the pseudo, (it is both cool, fun + good,)
- and the crafty searching, like a truly fun game. Some easy, some harder.
Best site, best pictures= Fact.
Thanks flushed. Yes well kept bowling alley adventure, shoes + all.
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I've decided this picture "Strata" looks like Ottoman architecture.
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I'm glad to see they were cleaned out and there isn't files, patient or otherwise, just left to rot.
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Being the tech/mechanical geek I am, I'd want to get this thing going again!
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wow this place seems pretty professional
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Nice Balls!
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It is so nice to see a place just left alone without being trashed or spray painted all over.
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I'd love to have this in my basement!!
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wow untouched for years!
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The bowling alley and other such amenities were there for the residents to get activity and socialising. The cost once installed would just be maintenance which as you see was done well.
In the 70's as story after story of hideous abuses were reported and factors like people with mental illness who could actually live on their own being among them the nation pretty much emptied most of its psychiatric hospitals and the former residents now live with family or on their own with subsidies or on the streets as homeless.
I do not know that is how this place came to be empty, I haven't read Mott's whole story on it yet. But in general that is why bowling alleys and other things in these places get left to decay.
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sometime sit takes me hours on the web- it has become a one uppance to Motts if he puts on a pseudo- at first i just admired the galleries but turned into a hunt for the mysterious + will visit there if I can
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Wow. I wonder how long this fine room has just sat here untouched.
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I WANT THAT BALL!!!!
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Ohhh, dear, you did? ACE wanderer!! WOW. Excellent - me, not YET.
Thank you so much, Mr.Motts - awesome photo-project really! As always.
.......makes me pule, a bit, though:
Is not Bowling Set-up an expensive Event??
All this Money spent. And it did not work out, did it?