lewis

wow,stunning.It makes me shiver!my big bro has been there once!he heard screaming and crying and moans! we should protest
outside and make sure they dont demolish that incredible building!

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

Lewis

Greetings, Sianaby!

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

lewis

Look at the metal cannister to the right of those jars. Can anyone else see a face?

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

lewis

Now that's arachnophobia at it's finest!

Location: Broadacres Hospital  Gallery: Meet the Neighbors

lewis

I agree, it bears an uncanny resemblance to Gacy.Ugh

Location: Broadacres Hospital  Gallery: Meet the Neighbors

lewis

The power could be on fur heating purposes, to keep damp out. We are keeping radiators on constant in an old apartment we are selling, to keep it dry.

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

Lewis

Just one 8 )

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

lewis

FUNGUS, or mould, maybe, whatever it is it's not nice

Location: Metropolitan State Hospital  Gallery: Detritus

lewis

I'm not sure, but that may not be pipes you see. It could just be light reftecting off of a stainless steel surface, no?

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Transitions

lewis

Rats are used in experiments, not patients, and this was not a lab, it was a hospital

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Transitions

lewis

This is a great shot.
"I told you to make your bed, now see what has happened"

Location: Adonia State Hospital  Gallery: Spring

lewis

Over here in England, there have not been latches on freezer/refridgerators for years. I have heard of people being accidentally suffocated in them. On commercial"walk in" freezers, there is a push bar on the inside which lets you out should you accidentally become trapped inside.

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Depression

lewis

I wouldn't like to venture a guess, but I too wouldn't touch it- I have seen the pressure these things carry.

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Sunlight

lewis

there's nothing nice about that picture, especially the fact her head is floating in mid air

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

lewis

This photograph indeed may evoke different feelings and reaction in many of of us, and I think that sometimes they might be contradicting of each other.
At the same time, we can also "Agree to disagree"

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

Lewis

I, too would like to thank you.
In these photographs, you are preserving part of history, that someday will be no-more.
Christopher in England

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish

lewis

is this not some sort of dental equipment, with the draws open?

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish

lewis

too right-it looks like pennywise the clown from Steven King's IT
Don't forget---they all float down here!

That clown is very menacing-shudder

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

lewis

I think that the piping is used in the cooling of the projectors- I would have thought they got quite hot in use

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

lewis

possibly the material contained asbestos

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

lewis

Extremely misplaced murals apprear here as sick and hideous.I agree.What joy could be obtained from these murals?I know I'd have a difficult time getting any.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

lewis

where abouts would you see this sort of decoration these days?No where.It, in my opinion just would not fit modern day facilities,where traditional recreation, to certain extents has been replaced maybe with computers and such like.I think that this one such theory may help to clarify the seemingly disturbing apprearence of such murals.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

lewis

it indeed looks like a bathroom, with the outlines of what appear to urinal stalls.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

lewis

I mean damp

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House

lewis

bread doesn't always go mouldy.If the air is dry, and not danp,the bread will be preserved, but it would not be edible of course!

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House