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Blue Haze

Van Gogo

Stunning.......simply stunning.

Location: Middlewood Hospital Chapel  Gallery: Remnants

Basement Light

Van Gogo

I just love those colors, this would make a great transparency in a collage or something.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 39, 138, 139

Lone Tree

Van Gogo

Kempkes, I remember Bob Ross and his "happy little tree",lol. I wasn't really a fan of his do a painting in an hour style(drive through art anyone?) but he was such a cheerful little man.

Location: Hinchcliffe Stadium  Gallery: Gladiators

Main Lobby

Van Gogo

I want a room full of these windows to put my drawing table in, the light would be incredible.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Gatherings

Shelter Zone

Van Gogo

Me too Buckykatt, I'm having the same problems, maybe they are having trouble with the site today?

Location: Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Creep

Multilith Lithograph

Van Gogo

I'm old too, I remember these and how I loved the smell of the ink on the paper (kind of explains a few things, 8-O ).

Location: Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Creep

Circulation

Van Gogo

I love the colors in this.

Location: Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Creep

Vacant

Van Gogo

Teddy Ruxpin,eh, he talked too much and something had to be done..........

Location: Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Creep

A Boy and His Dog

Van Gogo

(Twilight Zone music builds) It looks familiar to me too.....weird-o. Thank you Birdy for the remark about the knife, I thought I was the only one to notice that it looks like the boy had been holding a knife, perhaps to stab the dog with? And doesn't it look like they are sitting in a puddle of pee?
I'm sure Lynn or someone else could have a field day just examining my remark,lol, but seriously, this is one picture with just SO much going on, on so many levels.
And that tail! Looks like a fiddlehead fern or something.

Location: Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Creep

Green Room

Van Gogo

It doesn't make me tens, elevens maybe but not tens, definitely not tens.
;-}

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Building 93 (Infirmary)

Mixers

Van Gogo

I have worked in a few kitchens, I hated these things. The school I used to cook at had these kettles and we cooked spaghetti in them, you had to stir the pasta with a steel paddle, it looks just like a canoe paddle only made of steel.
Let me tell you it wasn't an easy task, especially when you are only five feet tall!

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

TV with Meds

Van Gogo

Gezal, your friend did what I have always dreamed of doing, shooting out the front of a tv!!. I have always wanted to hurl a brick through the front of one too, as far as I"m concerned it's the best thing you could do with a tv. But then I'm mad as a lampshade so what do I know :/

Location: Letchworth Village  Gallery: Into Darkness

Hall

Van Gogo

It was probably your reflection......smoke another one dude. ;-]

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

The Tower

Van Gogo

Amazing picture, simply, absolutely, amazing.

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Chamber of Mold

Van Gogo

I love the colors in this shot, the purple with the green,offset with touches of black here and there and then the soft yellowish walls.
The potential this room has for decorating is incredible, I would love to have a house with a room like this, only in better shape of course.

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Blue Doors

Van Gogo

I thought the same think Kassie, this looks more like an upstairs hallway in an old farmhouse than an asylum to me.
I love the colors in this, so soothing.

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Hip Straps

Van Gogo

Ha ha! your'e right, it is Clarice, boy do I feel dumb right now! Good catch Liz, thanks!
My poor menopausal brain, what can I say?

Location: Mesa State Training School  Gallery: Recovery

Banister

Van Gogo

Lol, just remember "they always travel in pairs".

Location: Eagle River Power Station  Gallery: Corrosive Industry

Patient Tunnel

Van Gogo

This shot looks like the scene in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where the little aliens are starting to come down out of the ship.
I'm not saying Mr. Motts and crew are aliens,lol, and hope I don't offend, it just struck me funny. I have a weird eye and even weirder sense of humor.

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

Hydrotherapy

Van Gogo

This is the Cadillac of tubs! I realize that this was in a hospital setting but I can't help but imagine soaking in something like that with a good book and soft music playing.

Location: Danvers State Hospital  Gallery: Tiptoe

Parting Message

Van Gogo

This reminds me of a bi-polar woman I used to work with in a studio. We had a blackboard where every day every artist was to put something on it, whether it was a quote, a drawing, a poem etc.
Well, this woman was always leaving messages like this one here, I always felt she was a time-bomb, but what do I know.

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

Hallway

Van Gogo

No harm done, I tend to be too sensitive sometimes. Back on subject, I can't remember the colors in the area I visited, some things you block out I guess.

Location: Worcester State Hospital  Gallery: Silent Creatures

Time to Leave

Van Gogo

I love all the pictures on this site, especially of places like Danvers, which I used to live near.
My husband and I took a drive to the ocean Monday and stopped by Danvers on our way home, it is so unreal to see it just a shell of what it used to be.
The main entrance paving has been all torn up and it is just bizarre to look up and not see anything.
We drove around to a road not far away where you can look right across at the front of the admin building, again, it was so weird to see.
All that is left is the front wall of the main admin building and the two immediate wings.
The water tower is still standing, for now.
I don't quite know why, but looking at it filled me with a sense of loss and sadness.

Location: Danvers State Hospital  Gallery: Dreary Skies

Hallway

Van Gogo

Sorry but the only color I'm seeing right now is red.

Location: Worcester State Hospital  Gallery: Silent Creatures

Smolder

Van Gogo

I would LOVE this picture, with the caption, "Yet again, Derek's farts have ruined another chair". Derek is my husband and his farts could possibly do this to a chair,lol.

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms