490 Comments for Mesa State Training School

I have a 5 month old baby, so I can understand about the used equipment and vulnerable children. However, call me optimistic or perhaps unrealistic, but when I see equipment like that, I see possibilities. In the day and age we live in, if people can go in and clean a room where a corpse has been lying for a month and leave said room looking brand new, they can sure find a way to remove mold and sterilize equipment like this.
(I apologize for ranting)
As far as the condition "the latest equipment could only be used" I would like to give the benefit of the doubt and think it would be for safety reasons, ie recalls etc; but it sounds like its more about the almighty dollar so that they will continue to buy the newest line.
I can understand concerns about a family or gods forbid, a facility, selling equipment for money instead of using it for the person who needed it originally.
Your Right, your damned if you do and your damed if you don't.

It could, although much of it is rather outdated (although certainly better than no equipment at all). As well, sitting around in funky old buildings for decades doesn't always make someone want to use that piece of equipment for their already vulnerable child (unless it can be sterilized and updated).

However, I wrote somewhere else (can't remember where - sorry) that in many cases equipment that is purchased with specific types of funding can't ever be sold, given away, or re-used. It's bizarre, but there were original reasons for those conditions. They might have been worried about someone getting used equipment and the conditions were perhaps so that only the latest equipment could be used. Another reason might have been that they were afraid that people would make a profit off the equipment by re-selling it and it would go to some use for people other than those for whom it was originally designated.

Ironically it has turned into sort of a Catch-22 when all is said and done as far as re-using it.

Ever seen rats in there?

Could this equipment be used today? Or is it too outdated?

I would like to buy one of these old buildings and then look through all the paper work, play with all the gagets, explore every nook and cranny and invite you all to join me :)

Todd,

I can safely promise you that you won't get spina bifida if you don't already have it. :-)

lynne you are a genius and i think i love you but all these weird chairs hurt my back really bad just looking at them i'm not in a wheelchair or anything but i'm sure by the time i die i will be i suffer from spinal-bifida-ocorda spelling? and arthritus in my lower back and the kicker is i'm only 19

again i suppose it was great for the person using it but for someone with a bad back it probably was very fun

even though its meant to help it still cannot be very comfortable ecspecially for someone with a bad back such as my myself

It knows who you are Motts :)

I think, "Whoops!" When I see this one.

It's C3PO's mother.

It seems almost fairytale like with the greenery about the chair. Like a woodland creature had sat there and left it's mark.

The only problem is that now that it has been sitting for so long, chances are the stuff is full of toxic mold and crap like that. I'm sure there'd be a way to detox it...

Hey Lynne? It's a torture device. XD