Amazing one of a kind photo. I am a very curious person who loves exploring places too. In the process I've opened many things I probably shouldn't have but I wouldn't open that thing up for a mint full of money!

This looks like a Story & Clark or a Thomas Organ. It's not a Hammond. I know because I was a music major in collage. Hammond had the slide bars. They were know for there ability the change pitch with just a touch.

For the past ten years I've worked with gentlemen that have come from that ghastly place, and I thank God that organizations like Refocus, Gateways to Change and West Bay Residentials exist.

I once worked there. About 1970/71.

Under that pathwalk is an underground tunnel was actually in it leads to the second building

Awesome picture Mr. Motts. Love it.

Prisoners most likely were given a bucket to pee&poop.

I wish oregon had places like these.

I wonder what the visor was for?????

I agree with Quinnifer

Reminds me of my first time in prison. The place had formerly been an insane asylum. Today it is Eastern Ore. Correctional Inst. located in Pendleton,Ore. Anyway the toilets were just like photo except there were no dividers! It was supposed to be haunted. I had a job washing dishes in kitchen. It was connected with the tunnels that most of the old institutions had. It was a creepy place.

If Gennies story is true,the people responsible for her torture should have been imprisoned and tortured in the same way. eye for an eye. Aside from that the pictures are great.

Wow, I remember this now as I was 12 when I last rode it for the last time in the early 70"s and it looks pretty much the same in this old photo. The riding cart I recollected banged through the doors and it went back outside and then up then through the doors again and it was a cool ride. So did they tear it down and scraped it or did they place it in a auction I wondered? Memories will live forever with good times with family back then.

i had mr ryker as a bus driver while i attended haverstraw middle shcool. is he still alive?

any 1 got pics of the mortary?

ne 1 found the padded sell

The bay was so high, and heat loss was so great. Plastic sheets were hung to trap the heat closer to the floor.

This is another draw press. It is also called a toggle press. This press was in the pressroom at the south end of the building. This line of presses was called " G Line ". G1A was the number one draw, and the first press on G Line.

The hoses were used to spray drawing compound on the sheets of steel before being put into the press. Compressed air was thespraying force.

I worked at South Bend Stamping as a die maker from 73 to 99, and spent many hours working on dies in those presses. Most draw press operations required four operators.

Those are man boobs

Mmmm....Beer.................

Meteor shit!

Sallie...go get ahold of the movie "Session 9" from 2001 (I think...) that's about one of the other Kirkbride Asylums in Massachusetts (the one in the movie is Danver's State Hospital...where the Full Frontal Labotamy was "prefected"....)

skeety, psychological problems & mental illness can not be Hereditary. They are things that must be Aquired through Life Experience. like Me for example, I've got some psychological issues that I've only aquired since 2003. I was in a car wreck in August, 2003 & the Brain Trama caused a few things with me that are a little bit off. I Can't be affraid of things anymore (...Anything...at all), I can't smell anymore, & awhole slew of other issues...I was Clinically Dead for 4 Minutes (Combined time....intermitant heart beat...)

...See all the paint flaking off the walls? that's lead paint....I've been inside that building looking around a few times....hope you were wearing a mask over your mouth....It looked to me like all the Asbestos has already been removed. but my main concern in that building (while my 280 Lbs ass is walking around in there anyways...) is the weak floors, water damage, possible termite damage, etc... I wish I had a way to brace myself with the Ceiling with like Motorcycle Tiedown Straps or something...