said in Bob Ross tone... Now we'll paint a happy little rainbow on this radiator.

is that a beer can sitting on the way top right door?

this photo is just begging for a ghost to show up on the steps

perhaps it was a homeless schizo who needed to remember which room s/he uses as the bathroom? ;)

makes you wonder why they decided to leave the records. did they actually truthfully forget? did they think the building would never be broken into? perhaps they just didn't care (about the records, much less the actual patients?)

Imagine searching for your family's past (geneology) and being able to find a relative's records here. Imagine how many relatives were lost in these asylums never to be known. I would find them interesting to read too. Amazing how with the Hippa act that it seems so hard to get private records yet it's amazing who actually can get access to your records so easily yet.

that's what I was thinking too... "complete with puke bucket"

Shoulda snarfed them boxes up and sold em on Ebay ;)

fantastic photo!

What's with the cross on the lower right side?

That is a horrid pink and certainly wouldn't calm me down, and one of the other first things I noticed was that face on the wall too.

I'm always amazed & in awe of these old fireplaces in institutions.

Perhaps Tim isn't meaning his words to be literal but literary. Imagine being a person who was locked in that room, how horrible it must have been.

Hippa didn't go into effect until recent years, they had no Hippa act back then, and I'm sure these records are forgotten by current personnel working there.

I've seen some websites that showed pics of records up close but they were kind enough to black out the patient's name. I also read a couple blogs of those with severe psychiatric illnesses and sometimes they are interested and many times they are redundant as if they're brains are stuck.