Typicaly yes there are different facilities for each class, now. But Even though the hospital closed in 1996, the Salmon Buiding closed even before then and patients were sent to different facilities. When the Salmon Building was being used the term used most ofter was "Criminally Insane", there was no "Not Guilty be reason of mental disease or defect", "Not compntant to stand trial". If a person with any sort of mental illness commited a crime (usually a violent crime), the were deemed "Criminally Insane". And many times they were treated no better than animals, unlike the present day when they are separated into different categories and watch to make sure that they don't hurt themselves and get the help they actually need these people were placed here so that they couldn't hurt others but could not be placed in a regular prison because they were "Insane", really not long before they were placed in regular prisons and usually did not live more than a couple of years after being placed in the regular prison, suicide or murder was how many of them died, at est at the hospital they weren't going to be murdered because some inmate didn't like the fact that they acted "funny". Also on another note though many people who had mental illness were placed in prisons for no reason other than the fact that people didn't understand tham and were scared of them, before Mental Hospitals became the place to place the mentally ill.

The Salmon House was used to house people that were found to be "Criminally Insane" and had been commited there. As for the damage that they could do to themselves, many didn't care at that time as long as they were locked up society really didn't care how they were treated.

oh & my guess is the dust is just that... dry wall & walls disinigrating to dust.

thanks for sharing these. i would love to go & pay omiage. there were so many of these places & how gorgeous were the buildings in their day for all the horifics that occurred. wish we could write it off to not knowing any better..... but that won't work. great pictures...

Reminds of the chicken cages back on the farm in Hawaii. Thankyou Mott, for reminding me of my farm in Hawaii.

after watching the activities on most haunted live over the past week i can honestly say what a awesome building, scrolling through the pictures on here i feel like i really can see all the spirits and poltiguists in the rooms, such a shame this building isdue to be demolished would love to see it renevated before the bull dozers takes over

I swear to GOD....my parents had a phone like this in their house....that they used....up until just a couple years ago. Its hard to get older generations to upgrade and get with the times.

Im going with soap dispenser here. :P

Ohhhh...ohhh! I know Footloose! HA!

Sorry....bad link above.

http://www.latimes.com...ay29,0,4714211.story

Great article about DIanne, with a video. RIP

http://www.latimes.com...ay29,0,7229858.story

There was a woman who just recently passed away. She had been in an iron lung for most of her life. During a storm, the power went out and they had a faulty back up generator. She passed away due to this. She was in very poor health however (not that you are particularly healthy being in one of those things), and was probably going to pass away very soon anyways.....according to the article I read.

http://www.latimes.com...ay29,0,7229858.story

I love seeing what has become of the place compared to the old photo. Wonderful.

it looks scary

This is beautiful....its just amazingly dark ,creepy and the lighting is ace man.
Fantastic. The classic horror pic!

Wow....just....Wow

Puuuuuurdy

Hey did you get inside the building?
If so how?
I'm currently doing research on the building and am dying to get inside it before it is torn down.
please contact me.
Poisonousxbeauty@aol.com