douro20 Old Simplex 35mm projectors with a carbon-arc light source. They still have one of these running in a theater in western Kansas.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

	douro20 It's a Hunter, and yes it is worth a lot of money.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

	douro20 Why do these corridors remind me of Half-Life 2?

Location: Gravesend Asylum  Gallery: Thorazine Dream

	douro20 Looks like an old elevator intercom.

Location: Adonia State Hospital  Gallery: Spring

	douro20 Elevators like that should be preserved; they ought to take it out and rebuild it elsewhere.

Location: Adonia State Hospital  Gallery: Spring

	douro20 Antique safes often are handpainted with nature scenes on the outer door or on the inside.

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Transitions

	douro20 There was good reason for them having the place locked down. There was very sensitive information being stored inside the facility and they wanted to make sure nothing leaked out.

Location: Danvers State Hospital  Gallery: Dreary Skies

	douro20 It is very possible that they ran a flea market in here once.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Uncovering the Past

	douro20 They ought to clean it up and take it out of there along with the support equipment.

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish

	douro20 That sure is an aspirator, possibly made by DeVilbiss.

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish

	douro20 I hoped they cleaned more of the place out before it was demolished...

Location: Studebaker Stamping Plant  Gallery: Around the Bend

	douro20 Pierre de Mondriann was actually a very good artist as was shown in many of his earlier works drawing plant life.

Location: Metropolitan State Hospital  Gallery: Clarity

	douro20 I once knew someone who had MS and she would stand in one of these for two hours out of a day...not sure what for, but most of the time she would use a power chair to get around.

Location: Mesa State Training School  Gallery: Recovery

	douro20 They used even older ones at the middle school I went to . They dated to the 1930s and still were completely functional.

Location: Belchertown State School  Gallery: The Theater