After seeing so many photographs of state mental hospitals, goverment mental hospitals, insane asylum's, psychiatric hospitals and tuberculosis hospitals on the internet I have now come to the conclusion that all governments everywhere in the last 150 to 200 years have a special department that comes with a breed of dull and dim witted men who look like Frankenstein from the 1930's Hollywood film "Frankenstein". And these boring dolts approved the faceless buildings and mindless methods that were employed in the in the housing and caring of the sick and mentally ill without so much as a glance as to what they were doing or why they were doing it. Truely pathetic!
I live across the street within a 100 yards of it, Its almost all blown up, and theyve started to fram what look like condos. I used to ride my dirtbike down there, now the woods are all flattened by a bulldozer
My dentist when I was a kid had an xray machine exactly like that, except that the end of it was covered by a plastic cone. I always thought it was a drill and it terrified me - I thought "no wonder people are afraid of the dentist if they put a drill like that into your mouth!" I didn't have a cavity until I was a teenager and found out then that it was an xray machine and not a drill - boy did I feel dumb!
The shot titled "Slim", a couple back, shows incandescent light fixtures mounted behind that clock face in a square pattern. Maybe these were similar at one time.
just stumled on to this site, oh my god I cannot believe the way the old place now looks, I worked there from 77 until 90 when I moved to the west coast and now work at guess; METROPOLITAN STATE HOSPITAL! it is even older than Mass and yes it has its vibes as well.
You know. I too think that is a straight jacket. Imagine us women on here, not to mention the males that are suppose to be experts on female underware removal, and we don't know a bra from a straight jacket.. lmao!
Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.