2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

I remember those from my alma mater, also!
They were finger loppers if you got in their way while closing em up! And SOOO comfy to sit on !
Golly, I HATED pep rallies!

Ahhh Hobart...The Company that built Troy Ohio...

It would be a GREAT paint can shaker! I can remember (as a kid)
seeing these for sale in stores. They weren't as heavy duty as this one though! Even as a youngster, the concept of "jiggling those extra pounds away" made me scratch my head...
Umm SBFD, redistributing "cellulose"?

cel·lu·lose  [sel-yuh-lohs]
an inert carbohydrate, (C 6 H 10 O 5 ) n , the chief constituent of the cell walls of plants and of wood, cotton, hemp, paper, etc.
Just being a Wank! LOL!

That's a shame all that stuff was not donated to mission groups in third world countries.

Sexy!!

I agree w/ "I think", it is grafitti. It does not fit the style of the architecture at all.

spent my childhood in hospitals for weeks and months at a time because of my genetic issues. caregivers have tremendous power over children in these settings. however even more so in the 70's when "visiting hours" were enforced and parents were not particularly informed about the treatment the child received. my mother had 7 more children and could rarely visit me because children under 12 were not allowed (i was the otdest) the aqua colored tiles are like memory triggers. like peering into the past,...

Laws and acceptance of people is so different today than it was in the past. I worked at a State School/Developmental Center in the 1970s. This would have been a standarized goal plan to get someone to eat.

In the past anyone developmental disability was not accepted in society so often people took their children to these centers because they were forced to lest it hurt the rest of the family in moving forward. Societies views of people, and the people that bore them was horrendous.

There are even cases of children being left at these centers when money was short in families and then the State not giving them back when the family was back on level footing.

Wives were also often taken to these centers when a man wanted to move on to a new woman but didn't want to deal with a divorce. Until the late 1970s, a woman was still basically the property of her husband in many ways. He could have her confined on the word of one physician buddy.

There were horrible times in the past, and wokring at one of these institutions was a very depressing and demanding time. You felt bad, but could only do so much. Reagan cut funding in the 1980s which caused many of them to close. Unfortunately, it also left many with no where to go, hence the number of homeless we now have on our streets.

Ok must be the marathons of Dr Who I been watching but first thought that came to mind when I saw this was what was the TARDIS doing there.

Love those fireplaces... Imagination makes me almost believe there is a secret passage inside the frame somehow...

If you had played, the cops would be creeped the hell out of that place:D Imagine hearing mysterious piano sounds from an abandoned mental hospital...

I would soooo race with friends using those - imagine the ultra creepy riding on custom wheelchairs through abandoned hospital corridors... Seems a bit like a start of some horror movie, but still exciting...

This reminds me of Army Basic Training in Fort Leonard-wood MO...the halls in the barracks looked exactly like this..at least the company I was in did..

There is a manufacturer in the south east ( Virginia ?) that makes a commercial wooden bed with Lexan (see through ) panels. It is called a SleepSafe bed (with hospital bedrail height rails) and a SleepSaferR (with taller see-through sides.) It does not have a closed in top. Try 1-866-852-2337.
I work in a group home and have one for a lady who is dually diagnosed with profound mental retardation and OCD. She has CP and cannot stand independently. She is older and has osteoporosis. She tries to get out of bed independently on impulse(due to the OCD) and has fallen and at one point pulled a dresser over on herself.
The SleepSafeR bed is the best thing we ever bought for her. We can elevate the head of the bed to address her GERD and breathing issues and she sleeps well through the night. The staff do 2 hour bed checks and even when she is awake at night, we don't have to worry about her falling out of bed onto the concrete floor.
There is a lady in another group home who also has an adult crib ("Hard" brand manufacturers, I think they are in Buffalo, NY). She is also profoundly retarded with a seizure disorder. She also has severe osteoporosis. She has stood up in bed in the past and fallen to the floor during a seizure and broken her arm. The adult crib is restrictive, it's true, but until we get funding for one-on-one round-the- clock care for profoundly /multiply handicapped adults, this is the kindest,safest thing we can do.
The beds are fabulously expensive and Medicaid pays so little that the local vendors won't even submit them for review. I don't know about private insurance, but if you can justify the use of an adult crib for medical reasons, you may stand a chance for partial reimbursement.
Yolanda,good luck...you are a saint!

the fan is an older Hunter Zeph Aire pedestal fan