490 Comments for Mesa State Training School

definatly one of my favorites.

hmm that's a dilemma.
i do a lot of exploration and of course the first rule is not to directly interfear with the place you explore.afterall we are not criminal's and really in context we are doing a good thing by recording site's that are living on borrowed time.
but it is hard to resist the temptation not to save stuff which of course would be theft.it is a shame that it is all just left to either be destroyed by wrecking crew's or for some dick head to set fire to,which has happened to alot of places i have been to.

i would love to go there and look through some of that paperwork - whats happened to all those people?

OmG Raymond it totally is!!! Trippy!

I concur, sir.

I see the island of Iwo Jima.
To the bottom is the ocean, a span of green island above that, and behind the chair, I can see the airfield, built in 1944 to allow B-29 bombers to make emergency landings and takeoffs.

Glue spots for the tiles.

in what lil work ive done with handicapped children this certin wheel chair is one they use to support a child that is fully handicap and cannot hold there own head up some even have straps for he chin to keep the head completely in place!

personaly....i would of read a few and takin a few to read later im not a thief but im very into old stuff like this so id call it being nosey!

the dots on the wall??? What are they ??

Wow, I dunno why but I get such a lonely feeling when I'm lookin at this picture.

Like.. I'm trying to imagine what it would feel if you have to use one of these. every day of your lifetime. Think about school. Nobody would play with you. You just stand all alone every day.

I know, feeling moody today :D

Btw, didn't they roll Hannibal Lecter all around in one of those?

It does seem to have the outline of someone's back.

Thanks for sharing that info, Felyne.

Being a bean-counter, I'd say its a matter of paperwork vs reality.

When these places closed down, they would have had an enormous asset register ... a register full of equipment that was either surplus to requirement, or just not viable to relocate (ie cost to much to ship it to another hospital). It wouldn't have been written off because as far as the financial accounts state, it has a value, and you can't just throw away expensive equipment (whether its going to be used or not). Of course now, its been depreciated past any value so the people who were refusing to let it be trashed dont care about it now anyway, as it was probably written off the ledger years ago... either that or the depreciation rate of a chair is so astronmically low they are still claiming depreciation on it. You might find it has a book value of $27.42, depreciating at a huge .13c per year, in which case that puppy's good for another 211 years!

Because it simply didn't matter at the time - that's why.

What do you do with something that's no longer being used? Trash it or leave it behind.

Yes, I'm sure some of it would sell quite well on eBay, but things like eBay didn't even exist when some of these places closed, and I doubt the state would have gone for that anyway.

Does any one know why they left so much stuff to rot away. Some that stuff would probably sell nice on ebay because of the history