1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

What is this? And the pink walls, too!!??

Smurfy,

I think you are just marvy! 8`-)

The Mangler...

Lynne...

Am I the only one who notices that when guys started gettin the finger q year at 40 the whole scientific community was ascramble to come up with a blood test.... but women are still sticken thier legs in the air after 100 years...

Glad you clarified it was already in that condition...

I was gonna ask what kind of wallpaper stripper you use....

OK... Paramedic here... I get the traction idea...

what the Frik do they need the sturips for?

"Oh, wait - this was a TB sanitarium, not a mental health facility"

Which begs the question... why do we need traction in a TB facility?

theres something in that frige... i just know it...

No offense taken. But being a child right before the Salk vaccines were first administered to school children and having childhood friends who came down with the disease, the iron lungs were the only way to keep these children alive. I guess we have a lot to be thankful for today that polio is virtually wiped out in this country.

I wasn't laughing at the iron lung or the polio epidemic, I was simply amused by the irony of that sticker being there because I just took my son to OSV for the first time last week.

This doesn't crack me up. I was a very young tot when the polio epidemic was raging in this country -- this is what is called an iron lung which enabled polio patients to breathe. My mother told me about how frantic my parents were when the girl across the street came down with polio -- I had been playing with her. Luckily I didn't contract polio, but a lot of poor children did, and they had to be confined to this monstrosity, sometimes fo rthe rest of their lives. Nothing to laugh about.

the osv thing cracks me up considering I grew up in sturbridge.

are you sure those aren't the liquid soap containers for the small "lamp" soap containers above the sinks?

anyone notice the new exit signs?

i know i'm way, way late on this one, but i really don't get what the sharp cereal professor has to do with cerebral palsy.

now, if sam had quoted from "skallagrig" i might have understood better....