They aren't demolishing it in the fall. Where did you hear that? they are selling the property and it will be demolished sometime within the next 5 years.

Thanks Mott, you have captured long lost images from the past. This type of suction machine had 2 glass bottles attached.The right side was the first bottle to be filled and if this bottle got full the fluids it would then flow into the left side bottle (ball side),when fluids reached the ball , the ball rose to the top of a metal tube and block off the suction ,and the suction would not work. The bottles then needed emptying.The types of suction devices were used to suck up mucous, vomit, or blood, which would have occurred during a surgical procedure, or if you had an unconscious patient, or any patient that had difficulty maintaining an airway. These type of suckers worked either by oxygen (from a cyclinder) or by electricity. This one looks like it worked by O2. The suction devices used today are disposable , ie don't need to empty the contents of the bottles ( due to risk of infectious diseases etc ). These types of suckers were used up until 10 - 15 years ago.

I think old X-ray machines can still leak radiation ?

Bed rails like this are still used today, but with the gaps between the rails closer together for safety regulations.

Great work Motts. This is an anaesthetic machine. 3 cyclinders on the side would have been 2 oxygen cylinders & 1 nitrousoxide. The suction bottle / machine would normally be on the floor next to the anaesthetic machine, but in this shot it is just resting on top of the anaesthetic trolley.

It looks like someone broke in to have a visit with a ghost that was locked up there...

Do the crime do the time. It is choices that they have made. They should be confined from loved ones, in hopes that they would miss them enough not to want to go back. My heart goes out for those that were wrongly convicted or on trial though. Magnific pic Motts....

having worked in the corrections field, the thoughts of the things that went on in this hall and inside the cells, this picture captures the whole feeling. Long, dark, dank, and a deadly life ahead. Awesome work...

Thank You Kid for the interpretation. Absolutely amazing!

i use to live by the hospital probably like 5 mins away and any time i would pass the hospital i would get a weard feeling. o hope they make it a musem and fix it up that would be so cool

i wonder if there are any diares left from old patients

sad to think my grandmother was there once just to do her daily job

i would just love to go in to the kppc one day the history is amazing!

don't do it...

As I commented before, this is the site of our Rainbow girl convention ( called Grand Assembly). On the last night there, we had what we called tha "Grand Ball". All the girls dressed in gowns and we all loved coming down the stairs in our long dresses. This stairway was the site of one of the funniest things. One of the girls I was friends with was not very lady-like. After watching us all decend gracefully, she reaches down, grabs the HEM of her dress and pulls it up to about waist height. Then she STOMPS down the stairs. We had good times at the place. Sad....so sad.

In the mid 80's I was a member of a group called Rainbow for Girls. Every year we had a state convention. We stayed at this place every year till they closed. It is so sad that it should have come to this.......

I need HELP! I went to see my comments and there was another person by Sandy, and now confused. I think here on out, I put Sandy Ann.. as that my name and middle name, that way, no confuse. I knew no me, because I no visit anything but abandonded mental hospitals. Thanks.

Yep, she is frustrated and feel anguish in her heart for not be able escape and reunite with her prince of enchantment. I can really feel this in my soul. Candice is magic when comes to model for you, Motts. I like much this!

It feels as if she is angry for not be able escape and now she is feeling quite frustrated. This is what photo say to me.

She is sliently crouching and slowly advancing forward to make her escape! "slowly now, that is right. One more foot and I will be free! "

Cupid to me, seem like hiding behind door, waiting for escape from mental asylum. She waiting to make her dash to free world!! Oh, I like much this photo.

The compound bow and the boots makes a sharp contrast to the white gown and angel wings. This is awesome work done by a brilliant photographer! Deafangel who by way name Andra, she no wrong when she says this very awesome site!

She does seem as a spirit walking the halls of time. More like a sprite! She truly resembles a cupid.

This is so beathtaking. It is as if she is waiting for someone to come and swoop her up and carry her off .

This girl seem so forlorn and lonely. She really looks the part of a mental impaired individual. Looks so vivid and real, standing there in that hall.