EricaM

awesome

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Epicenter

EricaM

I can't wait for your photos. I only made it to this place once, and when I hear about it I think about teenagers being stupid and careless, but your photos have brought it class and remind me why I am a fan of my memories of it.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: November Chills

EricaM

I see a date of 5-5-72. That's sort of suspicious.. I have well kept books from the 70's that are in a lot worse/yellow condition than these open notebook pages. Perhaps the building was shut tight and I shouldn't be so skeptical.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: November Chills

EricaM

Is this the sooty building with hay that has stairs that appear to be covered in a thick layer of something resembling animal (cat) feces..

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: November Chills

EricaM

I think you've been reading my mind. I was nostalgic for some wintertime hospital, esp. norwich.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: November Chills

EricaM

I totally read that as prubbs

Location: Jackson Sanatorium  Gallery: Up in the Air

EricaM

Were they ever lived in? What was the point of putting so much money into renovations if they're now all vacant and not bringing in revenue? I wouldn't mind living in a partially abandoned building but I can't imagine the majority of people would want to.

Location: Samuel R. Smith Infirmary  Gallery: Cutting Through the Atmosphere

EricaM

Very interesting. Was this supposed to facilitate better airflow or something? No idea.

Location: Samuel R. Smith Infirmary  Gallery: Cutting Through the Atmosphere

EricaM

I ask only because the capacity of the freezer in the morgue I was talking about could only really hold about 2 gurneys at once. Seemed sort of asinine..

Location: Mount Sinai Hospital  Gallery: Effects of Insomnia

EricaM

How many gurneys could fit in at one time? The first time as a nurse I ever had to wheel a body to the morgue the freezer was that style. It was an old crappy hospital.

Location: Mount Sinai Hospital  Gallery: Effects of Insomnia

EricaM

Well, Motts, that's awesome. Because I'm pretty sure when I first saw that gallery that I missed the little asterisk stating that wasn't the real name. I must've been stoned, because I just figured "Hey no kidding.. maybe theres a twin hospital?!" Hah. Thank you for taking the time to point out that link for me, man.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Fall Showers

EricaM

The first time I ever went out of state to visit/photograph a place was to this hospital, I actually didn't even really know where I was headed, I had to ask locals to head me in the right direction. That was like 6 years ago, and my one roll of film got stuck in my camera and pretty much destroyed, so seeing GOOD photographs of the place is a treat. I'm still hanging in there waiting patiently for you to upload a gallery of the [name edited] Psych complex, which was a pretty stunning place in size and overgrowth and also a place I only managed to get a few photos on film that are long lost..

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Fall Showers

EricaM

Now i'm racking my brain trying to remember the 'cute' little germ posters/stickers littering one of the floors in norwich s.h.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

EricaM

Oh, jeez.

Location: Vineland Training School's Menantico Colony  Gallery: Hot as Hell

EricaM

That door absolutely reminds me of a famous francesca woodman photo

Location: Königin Elisabeth Hospital  Gallery: Trashed

EricaM

Nice, man.

Location: Beelitz Heilstätten  Gallery: For the Night

EricaM

You know, it just took me 5 minutes to realize the 'slashes' I couldn't find were actually the shadows on the doors I was seeing.

Location: Säuglings- und Kinderkrankenhaus Weißensee  Gallery: Contagious Haven

EricaM

If I'm seeing that correctly that is a very odd ward lock key.. most arent curved and/or (stainless) steel.

Location: Irrenanstalt Weiler  Gallery: Leichenhalle

Ericam

What a freakin' great find. Id love to be able to bring my camera there, i'd be there all day.

Location: Erich Wagner Kindersanatorium  Gallery: Lost and Found

Ericam

I was thinking more along the lines that they could be chutes? I can't picture them from any other angle but from what I know or have seen, looks like chutes.. or perhaps those boxes..thingys.. rotated and seperated coal chunks? Or im just way off and wrong.

Location: Heusden-Zolder Coal Mine  Gallery: Up and Out

Ericam

I dig the dead leaf hangin out towards the bottom.. maple leaf??

Location: Fort de la Chartreuse  Gallery: Quieter This Time

EricaM

I almost commented on the birdies a few photos back, Eagles! How awesome.

Location: Saint Remigius Military Hospital  Gallery: Terrain Militarie

EricaM

You sure this was always a military hospital? It just seems odd that it's barred.. but perhaps it was put into use during battle? Just odd..

Location: Saint Remigius Military Hospital  Gallery: Terrain Militarie

EricaM

id imagine there was previously some structure that was build around/on the raised area... I work with individuals from state hospitals that would trip and kill themselves on surfaces like that... so thats my guess,. alex

Location: Saint Remigius Military Hospital  Gallery: Terrain Militarie

EricaM

Mesh shadow.. now that is awesome...

Location: Saint Remigius Military Hospital  Gallery: Terrain Militarie