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A Cold Room

Destiny

This looks like a room right out of one of the hellraiser movies

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Uncovering the Past

Seat Taken

Destiny

I think this would make a great background image!!

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Uncovering the Past

In Between

Destiny

Caro- They are simply buttresses, flying buttresses are never used internaly for they pull the weight away from the building and into the ground... a great example is notre dame!

Location: Valmea Convent  Gallery: Tangled

Lobby

Destiny

The light fixture is very simular to one that has been, well i guess, redesigned, in the past two years out of Europe. It is very popular in the hospitality design feild, and it was also in the movie run fat by run at the two story apartment of the boyfriend (random, i know..)

Location: The Pines Hotel  Gallery: Trip with Drie

Barred

Destiny

.... wallpaper?

Location: Krankenbunker "Breuning"  Gallery: Soggy Shoes

Cracked Open

Destiny

We need a soundtrack to sanity for these collections.

I think this location and Northwood Asylum sum up the lonely, hopeless feeling that asylums bring on. In the end of their days, don't these asylums finally look like the feelings they bring to those locked in them in the beginning of their years?

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Bathtub

Destiny

I promise y'all, when I came home and helped clean up.... the water in that tub is pure in comparison. That is nothin'.

But I do wish Motts would come take photos here before what is left of some of the gorgeous buildings here are destroyed. Some historic places and faces are disappearing, even if they don't have much hurricane damage. Everything new and impersonal seems to be the NOLA motto now.

I loved this city once. Since the storm, I hate it. The people changed, the citizens are thrown aside and investors for the new New Orleans are all that matter. I'm applying to the school, gonna go, and as soon as I am done, I am leaving Louisiana for good. There is nothing left here worth saving.

All their money for your soul.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Summer Days

Destiny

This actually looks much like an enclosed wraparound porch on one of the many plantation homes down here in the south. It reminds me more of lemonade and circle skirts than padded rooms and nurses.

Location: Severalls Hospital  Gallery: The Beginning of the End

Fresco Closeup

Destiny

Oh mighty king of TB, please have mercy?

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

Transport

Destiny

Next time, they should probably refrain from trying to beam up the patients *they* call crazy.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Small Chair

Destiny

Ah, the chair. This one seems to hang its head in despair. Fits the tone of the place.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Dawn of a New Day

Morning Light

Destiny

I'm the girl who cut's off my sister's head in the family barbeque picture. Now that the uncomfortable truth is out, I can comment on the picture.

I see more Agitation Green. It is as necessary as the lonely chair for Motts... I would not believe it was his work if there were a gallery free of the green.

Why do people vadalize these buildings?? They would be great if left alone. Still unbearably creepy, but more beutiful.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Dawn of a New Day

Junction

Destiny

I spy with my little eye...
more of that nasty green color.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Top Row

Destiny

Is that water on the floor, or is the glass clean enough to see through on the sides there?

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Morning Light

Destiny

Mornin' Starshine.
Time to face the day.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Drugs

Destiny

As to the "mini bar rum bottle"- the rubber-covered top is evidence that it is indeed medication, not rum. It is in a FDA approved container for medications approved for injection. That would cost a pretty penny...

There is a bottle cap made of metal in the lower left corner of the shot, and it likely came from a regular sized alcoholic beverage.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Drugs

Destiny

Motts, was this in a cell where there were squatters? The soda bottle looks fairly new, and there is a likely reason these people live in a jail cell. Too bad the state would throw them in an active prison instead of rehabilitating them and getting them back on their feet, or we could get them help.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Block From Shower

Destiny

People in those cages, but fines if you do the same to chickens or pigs. Someone call PETA to protect the people's rights.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Hall With Line

Destiny

Yet another asylum with "Agitation Green".
So, Motts, any rooms here with "Color Me Crazier Pink"? If I remeber correctly, Baker's Pink?

Was that meant to throw back to the bakery boxes of past days, or the old medicine company, Baker's? They made something similar to Pepto Bismal...

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

Eye Wash

Destiny

In case you got those body tissue samples in your eye. Always with the danger and the spoiling of our fun.

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

Grossing Table

Destiny

Interesting point, Peat, since the asylums were first created to allow a place for treatment of conditions that people needed treatment for, but were instead being thrown into a prison cell to rot.

This asylum, however, has not shut down, according to the statements at the beginning of the gallery. It has simply fallen into disuse, but may be reopened to house more patients soon.

Hope is not lost, though the place is dreary enough to make you think it may be.

As to specimens-
A family member or the patient (depending on their mental state, some could represent themselves) would have to sign off beforehand on the posthumous removal of any body part, unless a stipulation allowed the state to make that decision due to a lack of any relatives. Patient rights have greatly increased in the last 20 years.

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

Hall

Destiny

Or they could wait 5 more years and the lead-based paint will have removed itself from the walls, apparently.

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

Psych Grounds

Destiny

Ya know, it looks like a university from this angle.
I love the way the brick repeats the subtle reds in the sunrise.

Location: Hewitt State Hospital and Prison  Gallery: Prison and Medical Building

Freezers

Destiny

The reason we taped the fridges shut after Katrina- but we did put warnings after cleanup crews & looters started opening them. Served the looters right!

Location: Hewitt State Hospital and Prison  Gallery: Prison and Medical Building

Waterfall

Destiny

The light from above makes it almost heavenly. Ah, at last, the door to Eden.

Location: Bennett School for Girls  Gallery: Close Calls