458 Comments for Belchertown State School

Amazing shot! :)

i love the light holes in the ceiling... nice run down look.

My friend just noticed these are in the theater building at Kings Park Psychiatric, and indeed they are... I guess they were a popular brand!

There is a book called "I Raise My Eyes To Say Yes", by Ruth Sienkiewicz, which was written by a woman with cerebral palsy who lived at the Infirmary at Belchertown State School. It's worth reading, especially if you ever wonder about what life was like for those people leaving all those wheelchairs behind. I know Michael D'Antonio's book, "The State Boys Rebellion", has been mentioned elsewhere on this site. It's well worth reading and is available cheaply from the huga and diverse cut-outs/remainders catalog from Edward R. Hamilton Books.

yep, exactly the same uncomfortable plywood seats with beautiful ornamental cast iron supports. our building was built in 1827, so I guess this is in the ballpark of the same age. please excuse my typing, i'm not illiterate, just typing around a cat.

the junior high where I last taught had exactly those seats.

My high school actually used one of these for some of the health education movies we had to watch. Kinda nostalgic seein one again ...

1992, check out the history section - http://www.opacity.us/...own_state_school.htm

well done... I went to school in one of the dormitories when they used a few of them until the new school was up and running... I still live in Belchertown and drive through the grounds on a regular basis... it truely is amazing

MOTTS
Do you know by chance when this place was last used?

YOU GUYS HAVE SAID IT ALL! BUT I DO JUST HAVE TO SAY THAT THOSE ARE FAB SEATS! FAB!!!!

JOE AND MATHUE, I AGREE WITH YOU BOTH. I LIVE IN CALIFORNIA AND MY HOUSE WAS BUILT IN 1989 AND ITS A PEICE OF CRAP. EVERYTHING FALLS APART OR BREAKS OR WHATEVER. AND JUST TO LET YA GUYS KNOW MY FAMILY AND I ARE NOT DISTRUCTIVE PEOPLE, THE HOUSE JUST FALLS APART ON ITS OWN. OH YEAH, I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THAT THE THEATRES ARE MY FAVEORITE PLACES, I LOVE THE PICS OF THE THEATRES!!!! WOOO HOOO!!!!!

I remember these projectors from grade school. They were really noisy and when they ran for a long period of time it got really really hot and you couldn't touch the thing for an hour afterward or you lost skin on your hands (ahhh the good old days)

I love the plant just growing out of nowhere and growing right out of the frame. and it being black and white it adds a really nice contrast to the broken and brash dark colors. Awesome!

Here on Ebay is a picture of an ad for this projector. Just thought it may be of interest.
http://cgi.ebay.com/19...QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem