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oh goody we have more great pics.

I couldn't pass up being the first post of a new gallery. Thanks for the awesome photos Motts, you are a true artist!

I could make a joke about this photo. But I will respect the people that was their.

It's been identified as a 1950s-era Jefferson Ventilator.
http://soa.group.shef....rson_ventilator.html

anyone know what this thing is?

I worked there for a time.....it was an overcrowded hellhole where a lot of families dropped off their mentally disabled family members to get rid of them. When I worked there in the nineteen sixties, very few patients were being treated for their illnesses. It was a prison for the mentally ill and disabled. As a professional. I left there in complete disgust as did many others. If it looks "spooky" think of it as a horror movie without the filmmakers.

I went to Buff state, and worked for the Dorm Authority. We stored some of our excess and destroyed furniture over at the psych center so I have been in there. I used to ride my bike through the tunnels that went under the ad. towers. The place was spooky as hell, the pain from the residents had seeped into the walls. BTW a small bit of The Natural was filmed in there (hospital scene) while I was attending school. I personally do not think it is salvageable at any cost, almost 100 years of horrendous human suffering in one place.

Had a few fellows tell me over the years that thorazine was worse than the illness......especially those being weaned off drugs.

Salmon pink for sanity.

The height and colors are amazing.

As an OT student in about 1959, we used to lead our patients up stairs exactly like these to the huge rooms at the top of the towers where we had occupational therapy! I wish I could locate someone else to confirm these memories. Julie@zittels.com

Notice that even in a seclusion room, architectural elements such as the decorative crown moulding were installed. Today's construction will never come close to matching the detail and beauty of bygone era architecture.

If anyone has an Iphone, take screen shots of the dark places, you can see what lies in it...

In the back, the glare, if you zoom in it looks like a human figure... And if anyone has an Iphone take a screen shot while zoomed in... You can see the whole body figure.