1,927 Comments for Pilgrim State Hospital

I worked in building 22 for a couple of years ward 6 or 5 Max security for new patients from 63 to aprox 65

Funny, Binky

Hey, I cleaned my room that way when I was in grade school.

A lot of real fucked up shit happened at Pilgrim,& KP,back in the day.

Some wild shit.

I'm pretty sure only the older machines are really worth anything. I had a Coke machine from the late 50s, early 60s that dispensed the 6-1/2 oz bottles of coke for 10 cents. Try to find those size bottles today, it was hard back then but I found a distributor who sold me some by the case. That machine used to keep the soda SOOO cold, practically to the freezing point. I kept the machine by the back door, by the deck and we used to lay out in the sun and get all hot, then run in a down a Coke in one swallow. Talk about refreshing!! When I moved from there I had a lot of people offer me all kinds of money for that machine and I finally sold it. Now of course, I wish I hadn't because those machines are bringing premium dollars these days.

Probably prime parking spaces for the head doctors and administrative staff.

To answer your question eldokid, it is due to it being far too costly to fix them up. While repurposing these buildings sounds good and easy saying it, doing it is a completly differant matter. Tons of money would need to be used fixing these places up, from roofs, wiring and plumping, to the walls,flooring and windows. Not to mention cleaning out any mold,mildew or asbestos. It's cheaper to let the buildings rot for the most part

Weird how the road(?) in front is cut off by the sidewalk in one lane

I agree, those are nice. Differant too. I dont think Ive seen too many places with such supports, least not exposed

Im guessing they must have been painted over the years but dang did they look so pretty shining with that chrome/aluminum/some other shiny metal surface

Wonder why they left it? I guess it wasnt too important. And I wonder if the chemical dousing it recieved was due to being in the cooler for so long or on purpose

Weird how that one has a chuank taken ou of it to fit around that obtrusion on the ceiling, but I guess it wouldnt be such a big deal if that was where the machinery was located

Looks like nature wouldve enveloped these buildings had they been left standing. Beautiful walls of green growth

Why would you go through all the effort of tossing all that metal into a huge, unsighly pile outside and forget it was there?