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Peek

Lyric

Once again. We are forced to remind new visitors that the information on these buildings is not given out. PERIOD.
Stop asking.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

Pit Of Oblivion

Lyric

http://pub27.bravenet.com/forum/2317178576

A little gift for each of you. From me

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

Quote

Lyric

Please note that what I wrote in Parenthesis, is not part of the quote in the least. It is a translation of sorts, so that people will hopefully lose the cruel and unusual thoughts from their heads.

Location: Pilgrim State Hospital  Gallery: Emptiness

Thermostat

Lyric

To all the Iron Fisted Asshats of whatever the rest of it went. And Opacity Addicts
Happy Thanksgiving!

Location: Salesian School  Gallery: Forgotten Prayers

Foot of the Coffin

Lyric

There was a time when casket companies would sell in bulk to institutions, especially when they had a morgue and someone who would embalm the dead.
Some of these hospitials also served as poor houses and many (like one I grew up near) had fully functioning gardens, greenhouses, power plants and dairies/slaughter houses. They were fully functioning cities within a comunity.
Some institutes did provide housing forcare staff and doctors who lived on site.
It was also not uncommon to find that there were also cemetaries or crematoriums not far so that they could bury the patients and poor in a respectful manner.
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Location: Northwood Asylum  Gallery: Silence

Attic

Lyric

I keep waiting for a cloaked monster to come around the corner and peer at you. Beckoning you closer.....

Location: Gravesend Asylum  Gallery: Thorazine Dream

Window

Lyric

Gravesend is definately up there in my favorites!
I know you have your vacation photos to finish up. I can't wait to see the Michigan ones. The Ypsi scared me when I was a kid and it was still open, and the MCD has always fascinated me.
I'm just sorry that DHCO in Northville was demolished before you could see it.
Anyway. I'll wait patiently.

Location: Salesian School  Gallery: Forgotten Prayers

Window

Lyric

Grifs- You are absolutely right. There isn't a location or a gallery that doesn't fascinate me. I just can't pick a single favorite.

Hey Motts- Which of these is your absolute favorite?

Location: Salesian School  Gallery: Forgotten Prayers

Morgue

Lyric

Sleepless-
Mister Motts out of habit, professionalism, and his own personal safety. Does not reveal the true locations, how to get there, or how to get into these buildings, on this site.
Please take a moment to read the About section of his website.

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: A Grand Tour

Window

Lyric

Of course, I like the lonely chair shots. But it realy is hard to choose a favorite out of the collection.

Location: Salesian School  Gallery: Forgotten Prayers

Blue Light

Lyric

I am sorry to hear that we are losing a landmark, in this manner.
I sincerely hope that there was noone in the building when the blaze began, and that if there were, they were able to make a safe exit.

Location: Dixmont State Hospital  Gallery: Departure

Drinking Water Barrels

Lyric

You would be surprised. There are hospitals that are accredited with JACHO(sic?)
have to have in storage, a certain number of gallons of potable water(suitable for drinking), non potable water(not suitable for drinking), gasoline for generators, as well as food rations, blankets and linens, in the event of a disaster.
Granted, the barrels in this picture are likely past the expiration date, but storing water and basic necessities is not just a Cold War relic, or a war relic in general. It is still in common practice.
You just don't hear about it.
Infact, the last time we heard anyone really stress the importance of storage, was during Y2K, when everyone scrambled for the world to fall apart on New Years.

Location: Pilgrim State Hospital  Gallery: Emptiness

Hallway

Lyric

Tuberculosis, also known as Consumption during the turn of the last millenia. (1800-1900). Refered from here on as TB.
Is the most common major infectious disease today.
Transmission can only occur from people with active TB disease,
The cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is a slow-growing aerobic bacterium that divides every 16 to 20 hours. This is extremely slow compared to other bacteria,TB is spread through aerosol droplets which are expelled when persons with active TB disease cough, sneeze, speak, or spit.
What happens with this disease is that the alveoli inside the lungs(the little grape bundle looking things that help with oxygen transfer and CO2 diffusion), begin to harden and stop functioning.
Often the result of this is the patient coughing up great amounts of blood.
The term consumption came from the appearance of the patients looking as though they were being consumed from the inside out.
During the later parts of the 1800's patients were sent out west in hopes that the higher elevations and drier climates would help them breathe.
Later when the Iron Lungs were developed, they found equal if not better success in the treatment of this disease.
Iron Lungs also went into common usage when the polio epidemic hit, and there were paitients
whose chest muscles were affected and they were unable to inhale and exhale without assistance.
Tuberculosis Hospitals did not begin to open in the United States until 1885. The American Tuberculosis Association, changed names and is now the American Lung Association.

In the many years and study of this disease, there are treatments and vaccinations available. For more information on the disease and your area of the country, contact your local health department, or speak with your own doctor.

Doc Holliday the famous poker playing gunslinger from the wild west days. Died of TB, in a Sanitorium in Colorado in 1887.

I hope this was enligjtening enough, if not, do a search for Tuberculosis in the search engine of choice, and read up.
I could have gotten deeper on the subject, but I didn't want to sound like an Epidemiologist.

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

Collapse

Lyric

and he huffed..... and he puffed...... and he blew the wall in.....

Location: Salesian School  Gallery: Forgotten Prayers

Playpen

Lyric

Once you crunch.. You can't stop....

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

Cave In

Lyric

Poe, Lovecraft, Shelley.. and others were all great with their dark imagery.
Some of the comments are scary, but some are scary witha tongue-in-cheek, sarcasm, that makes it all more real.

Location: Bennett School for Girls  Gallery: Close Calls

The Morgue

Lyric

Ahh yes.. but what most of them don't realize is that the combination of alcohol with any energy drink makes for a deadly cocktail. Because of elevated blood pressure and other things that the energy drinks do to the body.

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

Intensity Selector

Lyric

Very nice Lynne-
Like I said before Lynne and Serrena both work at Puff the Magic Dragon Buildings.
Puff = Psychiatric Health Facility.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

Bridged

Lyric

Read the Disclaimer by Mister Motts.
Actual locations are not posted for a reason.

Location: Franklin Power Plant  Gallery: Humidity

More Gears

Lyric

Nope, they're gears. Looks like oil and grease to me.
But then it's a black and white picture.........

Location: Letchworth Village  Gallery: Power Plant

Welcome to the Quad

Lyric

Could you repeat that please. In "grown up" english"?

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: The Quad

Blue and Orange

Lyric

Not blood.... mold and water damage. Combined with a healthy dose of rust run off.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

Quote

Lyric

Let Conversation Cease.
(so that we may listen)
Let Laughter Flee.
(so that we may take this seriously)
This is the Place Where Death Delights To Help
the Living.
(Let the dead speak so that we may learn from them in order to help the living)

Perhaps that line of thought helps to remove some of the morbidity from the quote and the location of the quote.
The dead speak of their diseases to the living, and the wrongly dead scream out the cause of death.
Ask any Medical Examiner worth their salt, about the things that they have heard the dead speak of.

Location: Pilgrim State Hospital  Gallery: Emptiness

Trash

Lyric

This was a train station. The rooms above the cental terminal, were usually, offices for the Train Services, and occasionally regular business offices. Very rarely did you ever find that the spaces on the upper floors as hotel rooms.
It wasn't impossible, but mostly uncommon.

Location: Buffalo Central Terminal  Gallery: Baggage

Box

Lyric

" The smell of the boy's Locker Room turns me on"


Arrrrouuuuuu Rrr Rrrr Arrrouuuuuu

Location: Hinchcliffe Stadium  Gallery: Gladiators