319 Comments for Barlow State Hospital

Try stretching your hamstrings and calves. I used to get pain in my foot from wearing shoes with heels. It wasn't until I remembered the injury to my glute and started trying to fix what I was always told was congenital and unfixable that I figured out the foot pain was due to over tight hamstring and calves. That was an accident that I happened to notice the foot pain go away when I stretched. Now I wear heeled shoes all the time.

On the metal faceplate of this device it say's "HITTMAN"

Was this on purpose or was this someone's name
or was this a cruel joke ? Who knows ?

Friday, March / 17 / 2017 7:16 p.m.

Thank you Motts for all of the photographs and keeping everyone
informed of what has happened to all of these buildings
throughout the world.

Through all of your photographs you have given everyone an insight
into the mental hospitals that most people would never have a chance to ever look at. The life of these poor people who lived here was very sad.

You do not try to "sugar-coat" your photographs.

So thank you again !


Friday, March / 17 / 2017 7:08 p.m.
Menifee, California

I just right clicked the photo to open it in a new tab. I don't have a very big monitor so I see only part of the photo, or I have to scroll around or reduce the page magnification to see the entire photo. I wasn't trying to take it, as the pop-up message implied. I was just trying to get a better look.

Hi Sandy,

Yes, I think they do. It is called a night splint. There are some other fabric /elastic braces you can wear during the day to help keep your foot and ankle straight. They are all non prescription items. Call around your local med supply companies.

I had it too 10 or so years ago. What completely cured it was having massage therapist friend of mine work on my foot. There are legit therapists out there but you have to search for them. Your Dr. may be able to recommend one. You will need some very deep tissue work on the tendon. It is going to hurt but it is worth it.

Good luck, I hope you can get it cleared up

There is just so much waste these days - probable people desperate for this kind of equipment but being told there is no funding

Wait for me!

Much of this probably could be destroyed but it would require staff to oversee and probably a third party company to do the actual shredding. No staff and no money. We probably have a better idea this exists than anyone still working at the site.

LOVE the lighted soap dispenser!! I'd sit in this waiting room to use it!

AH! Zombie claw marks!

FLUSHED!!! HAH!!! My first thought was "Hallway To Hell", and AC/DC started playing in my mind...

I remember these. They were used at motor vehicles when I went to get my drivers license. And yes, it was to test depth perception....

BEING in these rooms would NOT calm me. They would MAKE me crazy, being claustrophobic, I would need to be sedated...

A very powerful photograph.

And the residents got their $. NOT the damn STATE.