alicia Those are geri chairs. Used to restrain the elderly. 5 point restraints are too hard on an elderly body so these chairs have a "meal" tray you latch on and 99% of the time an elderly person with dementia can not figure out how to get it off - thus being restrained in a chair. Quite effective actually. They even recline.

Location: Broadacres Hospital  Gallery: Meet the Neighbors

	Alicia Yes this IS the place ! It Sends me ... sob

Location: Great Barr Colony (St Margaret's Hospital)  Gallery: St Margaret's Hospital

	Alicia So awesome!!! I wish I had talent like this!!!!

Location: Ashley / Huber Breaker (Blue Coal)  Gallery: Blue Diamonds

	Alicia i too was pulled over by a cop right in front of that building, lol

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Group 2 and Some Building 93 Exteriors

	alicia woah budddyy..calm down. dont waste your tme on immature people to tell them that. we all know its sad, but seriously..calm down.

Location: Letchworth Village  Gallery: Into Darkness

	Alicia It makes me feel as if I'm escaping...crouching low, eyes darting to the door - is that a shadow? Do you hear something?? In-credible angle, Motts!

Location: Worcester State Hospital  Gallery: Back for One More

	Alicia This is coming from someone that used to be a guard at the old abandoned property. You did an awsome job with the photos and capturing the essence of the place.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Lockdown

	Alicia Please tell me that dial really goes up to 11...

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

	Alicia Due to the history of this building, I would suppose that the "hosekeeping" has long been a topic of discussion within these walls.

Location: York County Prison  Gallery: Quickly

	Alicia These stairs are great - kind of like and Escher drawing. Something is the foreground, but it's tough to tell what.

Location: Hotel Sterling  Gallery: River View

	Alicia I believe that buildings like this were used to nicely hide machines that lifted boats or their cargo out of the water and onto a train or other storage/transit. I guess the windows would have been used for the same purpose as the walls - just for their dumb beauty :)

Location: Hotel Sterling  Gallery: River View

	Alicia This is absolutely gorgeous tilework - was this in a lavatory area or in the main lobby?

Location: Hotel Sterling  Gallery: River View

	Alicia The treatments were probably lotions and creams. The medications probably would have been in carts with many tiny drawers for each individual person.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Wisteria (Building 15)

	Alicia Ingrid, this Bluefields is in New York, not Nicaragua. Mr. Motts - not only do you have lots of talent with the lens but you're so genuinely kind to use your talent to bring your fellow, less intrepid urb-exers to such captivating, quickly-disintegrating locales. Thanks.

Location: Camp Bluefields (Tweed)  Gallery: The Tunnels

	alicia god that's some scary shit.... i keep expecting something too pop up. argh. nothing does..... right?

Location: Cliffside Hospital  Gallery: Secret Things

	Alicia I just happened to be surfing the web and came upon this site. This is the saddest thing I've seen in a long time. I used to go there every summer! I even had a chance to take my kids there before it closed (1996). Talk about bringing back memories! I can't believe they're going to build condos! Hey does anyone remember Lincoln Park??

Location: Rocky Point Amusement Park  Gallery: Chaser

	Alicia damn....i was gonna sit there. bitch

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Uncovering the Past

	Alicia this shot is amazing!! i would love to have the courage and ability to go into abandoned buildings. I find myself strangely drawn to them and everything that could have happened within those walls

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Uncovering the Past

	Alicia lol i'm fully of the dumb questions but do you guys open all the doors to take pictures or are they all open like this when you find them???

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Uncovering the Past

	Alicia do you take all these amazing pictures as they are or do you supply extra lighting occasionally?

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Uncovering the Past

	Alicia no inside pic's?? awwww!

Location: Buffalo State Hospital  Gallery: Night Photography

	Alicia I live about 15 - 20 minutes away from this place and i would LOVE to go in it some day but..... I'm a chicken shit and i've herd stories from people who have been brave enough to go in there. I am a huge abandoned building fan so this site is like the best thing ever to me lol.

Location: Buffalo State Hospital  Gallery: Night Photography

	alicia How spectacular,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,new Homeowner, very passionate about plants.please tell me what to do next;)

Location: Pratt Greenhouse  Gallery: Greenhouse

	Alicia One of the best I have ever seen!

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Restraints