756 Comments for Broadacres Hospital

1. LOVE that episode of Twilight Zone..but heck I loved 'em all. 2. I love love love this floor!!

I WORKED THERE MONTHS BEFORE AND AFTER IT CLOSED MOVING RESIDENTS TO ST LUKES NURSING HOME. MY UNCLE DIED THERE IN 1950, MY GRANDFATHER STAYED THERE FOR TB AND MY UNCLE TOO. I COULD NOT FIND MY UNCLES RECORD BUT DID FIND A SMALL CARD ABOUT MY GRANDMOTHER THAT ACTUALLY WAS FROM OLD ONIEDA COUNTY HOSPITAL. I JUST WANTED TO SHOW MY FAMILY WHERE I WORKED SINCE ITS GONE NOW. IT MAKES ME SAD. I WOULD NEVER HAVE USED THE PICTURES TO JUST HAVE A LAUGH. THESE PICTURES ARE TOTALLY WAY BEYOND WORSE THEN WHEN I WS THERE BUT YET I KNOW IT SAT 10 YEARS. A PART OF ME LEFT WHE IT WAS TORN DOWN.

I remember the slanted halls. I loved them as a kid when I would visit my mother when she worked there

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Yeah that was a creepy old tunnel. I'm pretty sure the last few photos in this gallery are from the main building; I recall it being pretty empty and much less interesting than Jensen Hall, so I didn't take many.

I worked here in 1994/1995. This building was only used to store old stuff. The other building the tunnel led to was the main building, which you have no pictures of. I walked through the tunnel a couple times, but it was really freaky, so I avoided it. Lots of stories of weird ghostly things in the building you do have pictures of. Too bad you didn't venture into the former nursing home, it was much larger. It is a shame the entire complex was demolished. Vandals had smashed many windows and I am sure things got worse real fast.

Desktop background?

Do u have any of the whole campus. Looking for a specific house that was on the property. Up until 2006/7 it was being used for a non secure detention

This clown scared me when I walked through this tunnel at age 6. My father was a patient at Broadacres. I found this picture yesterday, and its as if I'm a 6 year old again!

Because of my age, I wasn't allowed in the hospital, but the vending machines were at the end of this tunnel, so the whole family walked this many times. There were many more creepy drawings.

I think that Thomas has a secret, deep, jealous envy of people who have experienced ghosts/spirits because he hasn't and probably never will and he knows that. This makes him somewhat angry on a sub-conscious level that he feels he needs to lash out when someone else mentions them.
The fact that he actually recognizes "the spirits" by calling them by name means that he does infact on some scale believe they do exist. Unfortunately, since he himself has/will never experience them means he will just continue on trying to rationalize as you've witnessed here.

Sour grapes.

I worked on Executone systems from P.A., telephone systems, and nurse call since 1976.

It is a Paging system zone box. The switches switch the zones on and off to the Mic. It's a fairly simple and straight forward design. John J and Traditional John have it right.

A Braille book is a cool find. As the hospital had children in attendance, it is quite possible that those who were blind were taught to read. From the looks of it (and I'm seeing it via your view), the book could be a Grade 1 braille book that most blind students start with (I have one). Not an easy thing to read and even harder to write.
History is hard to hold on to & even harder to understand if you don't experience it first hand. Thanks for taking the time to chronicle all these fading pieces of history to the best of your abilities.

If you were walking down this hallway, did you have to tip your head to the left?

tsk tsk tsk. . all those trees. ... killed for what?

Absolutely magnificent! Love this! Thanks.