Maxx

I grew up a block away from the hospital and i went to elementary school across the street from the hospital at school number 10. There were always crazy rumors about what that hospital was. there were smoke stack buildings in the backs. i heard rumors that back in the day it was a quarantine hospital for people with TB and when they died they dragged their bodies through the underground tunnels and burned them in the smoke stack buildings.

Location: Isolation Hospital  Gallery: Quick Run

MAX

kinda looks like it belongs in the movie SILENT HILL

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: The Other Wing

Jericho Maxim

I don't think I'd like an SSE...

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: The Other Wing

Jericho Maxim

Looks like the cover of the last Twine record, "Violets."

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: The Other Wing

Max019

Why is D.M.H. Records still scattered in the main asylum building.

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Transitions

Max

OK, but all I'm wearing under it is what God gave me!

Location: West Middlesex Hospital  Gallery: The Mortuary

max

wow. real discussions on a message board. who would've thunk it?

Location: Worcester State Hospital  Gallery: Silent Creatures

SteveMax

I was the Director of Activities and MC in the nite club from '84-86. Hank Leeds, the legendary previous director disappeared Labor Day '84 and I took over. Anyway, I was given two attached rooms on the main floor in the Ritz. Each pair of rooms shared a bathroom in between (that's the way it was in the old days) ... so I had a 'suite' of sorts. One time I was taking a shower. I'm totally lathered up and someone starts banging on my tub from below with a pipe or something and I hear screaming from the basement. Scared the crap out of me. Turns out the hotel's handyman was fixing a leak and had undone the pipes coming out of my shower. The water was going all over the place. Just another day at The Pines And don't get me going on when the old guy backed his car thru the walkway leading to the Carlton...

Location: The Pines Hotel  Gallery: Trip with Drie

JMAX

LIKE ALL THINGS IN LIFE WHAT COMES FROM RETURNS TO.

Location: Staten Island Boat Graveyard  Gallery: Wrecks

JMAX

LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE GETTING READY TO HAVE SOME FUN WITH THESE TOOLS.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

JMAX

AM I WIERD THAT THIS WAS A TURN ON.......?

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Max

It -is- rather depressing that this historical place is going to be torn down and turned into an amusement park. At the same time, it's disappointing, that some people care more about raking in cash from poor sods paying ten dollars for a can of soday instead of preserving pieces of our history that, once gone, cannot be restored.

And to whoever has the argument that Norwich needs some entertainment. I point you across the Thames River, there's a friggin' casino over there. Oh, and don't forget about the -other- casino that's close to Norwich. So there, 2 casinos and you want more entertainment? What, pray tell, is wrong with you?

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Lockdown

Max

heyy, almost like you could enter the asylums past by walking tru. creepy

Location: North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum)  Gallery: The Castle and the Asylum

Maxwellemus

My grandfather bathed in that! I visited him all the time.

Location: Severalls Hospital  Gallery: The Beginning of the End

max

You are so right Susie! this photo really spoke to me! That photo really was a great marriage in architecture and abstract art. When i saw this photo, my life nearly changed, i know it sounds corny, but it really did. motts you really know how to take superlative photos.

Location: Studebaker Stamping Plant  Gallery: Around the Bend

Max

I drive by those buildings every day. The cops sit out front every day. Nothing changes. I keep hearing of imminent demolition, but it never comes. As with Byberry and other places, I think there are three major holdups:
Asbestos, asbestos, and asbestos. The mesiothelioma ambulance chasers wait with baited breath!

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: A Farewell Visit?

Max

The school shut down the year before I moved to the area. Local papers published Belchertown school horror stories thoughout the 1990s. It was pretty nasty. It did not garner as much attention as Northampton State Hospital, but it was pretty notorious.

Location: Belchertown State School  Gallery: The Theater

jerichomaxim

Gurneys are always spooky!!!

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Gatherings

jerichomaxim

can we get a wallpaper of this one, please?

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

jerichomaxim

I have to chime in on this one -- This is an amazing photo. Motts, you've done us all a wonderful service with your work, and I thank you.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Night

jerichomaxim

"No autopsy, no foul" - or so they say

Location: Haverford State Hospital  Gallery: SSDD

Max

Motts,
May I offer some constructive criticism? I like your photography much better without cheesy goth chicks with birdy-wings and lip rings. Thanks.
BTW, I hope she wasn't a local gal. The Noho cops are always looking to bust chops, and they never forget a face!

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Max

They just had some big meeting the other night about the hospital campus. I didn't go, so I don't know what it was all about. I assume it is local concerns over the imminent demolition.
If you cross Route 66 and walk down the little trail past the buildings that are still in use there are tons more abandoned buildings that belonged to the hospital. Not that anybody should trespass or anthing...

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: A Farewell Visit?

Max

Thanks again, Motts.
It is funny how vandals seem to have tagged a couple of places, and yet the buildings aren't totally trashed by partiers, as is wont to happen when jerks discover an abandoned building. Interesting.

Location: Green Hill State Hospital  Gallery: Swarmed

Max

One word...plastics!
Polymers don't rot away. Not in a million years...literally!

Location: Green Hill State Hospital  Gallery: Swarmed