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AutumnTwin@aol.comWas that second floor walkway tipping away from the cells, or is it just me?
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Location: Old Essex County Jail Gallery: Solitude
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AutumnTwin@aol.comAnother great off-angle hallway shot. "Follow the yellow-striped hall!"
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Location: Malone Psychiatric Center Gallery: Infiltration
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AutumnTwin@aol.comI used to work at a movie theater that had been converted from a Vaudeville theater....before we carefulyy constructed a new theater out of what used to be the backstage area we all got a tour....it was incredible to feel the energy of all the people that once performed there. I didn't want to go into the dressing rooms underneath the stage....I'd been told there was a sizeable jumping spider population down there....EIW!!! YICK!!!!
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Location: Malone Psychiatric Center Gallery: Infiltration
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AutumnTwin@aol.comYEOWCH, THAT one will come down with a big crash!
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Location: Camp Bluefields (Tweed) Gallery: The Tunnels
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AutumnTwin@aol.comLooks like some pipes on the floor behind it. Maybe there used to be a bathtub there and the curtain was for privacy or something.
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Location: Salesian School Gallery: Forgotten Prayers
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AutumnTwin@aol.com"Oh Captain, my Captain!"
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Location: Salesian School Gallery: Forgotten Prayers
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AutumnTwin@aol.comSo far in my exploratioin of this site (the past three and a half days), I've seen the one with the multicolored iron lungs....maybe that's what you're thinking of? Haven't seen the whole site yet though.
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Location: Foxboro State Hospital Gallery: Endless Halls
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AutumnTwin@aol.comHey, if you ever publish a book with your photography, make THIS the cover.....with a very dark title like what my friend calls urban decay exploration....going Into the Abyss of Decay (you can have that one; a simple thanks inside would be enough).
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Location: Hewitt State Hospital and Prison Gallery: Prison and Medical Building
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AutumnTwin@aol.com"Hey, where do these stairs go?" "They go up." - from Ghostbusters.
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Location: Hewitt State Hospital and Prison Gallery: Prison and Medical Building
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AutumnTwin@aol.comEver come across medication bottles with drug names on them? (I'd assume that part of the shutdown would usually require removal of all pharmaceuticals from the premises) Like empty bottles or shelf labels or the like?
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Location: Hewitt State Hospital and Prison Gallery: Live Wires and Dead Places
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AutumnTwin@aol.comI've seen those before....usually in factories and other places with large Cathedral-height windows. As I'm sure you could guess, the one pulley opens all of the window vents at once....one wouldn't really WANT to have to climb all that way up to open or close each of those vents separately....a waste of time.
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Location: Hewitt State Hospital and Prison Gallery: Live Wires and Dead Places
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AutumnTwin@aol.comLOVE the motto on the scale! ;)
"No springs. Honest weight." Yeah....people would just "love" to read that one! |
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Location: Hewitt State Hospital and Prison Gallery: Live Wires and Dead Places
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AutumnTwin@aol.comPSSSST! What's the secred password?
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Location: Northampton State Hospital Gallery: Overcast
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AutumnTwin@aol.comHmmmmm.......really makes one wonder what they're serving in the cafeteria if the morgue is in the same building. Don't eat the daily special! LOL!
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Location: Northampton State Hospital Gallery: Overcast
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AutumnTwin@aol.comHere's an interesting perspective on Asylums, focussing on Northampton in a few places.
http://cssvc.health.webmd.compuserve.com/content/article/29/1728_67929 |
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Location: Northampton State Hospital Gallery: Overcast
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AutumnTwin@aol.comHope they donate those to some medical school(s)....would be sad to destroy all that information.
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Location: Riverside State Hospital Gallery: Gatherings
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AutumnTwin@aol.comI love the view of the trestle behind the newer building and the lush landscape behind it....if that got converted to condos or something, could be a nice photo for the ad!
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Location: Riverside State Hospital Gallery: Gatherings
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AutumnTwin@aol.comIt's a lovely pressed tin ceiling. Many times tin was used when the original ceiling would crack and/or threaten to fall (the duct tape solution of the Victorian and post-Victorian era).
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Location: Riverside State Hospital Gallery: Gatherings
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AutumnTwin@aol.comGeez, one would think that if you were going to stage a bloody scene, one would use something that LOOKS more realistic than that....that's about as FAKE as the gelatin-glycerin-tempra paint mix they used for the elevator scene in The Shining. Looks like watercolor or tempra paint to me.
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Location: Demon's Alley (New City Village) Gallery: New Years
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AutumnTwin@aol.comIs that.....algae growing on the ceiling??
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Location: Dever State School Gallery: Institutional
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AutumnTwin@aol.comThese look like a way of the trolley's overhead electrical contro arml being able to make the smooth curve without pulling on or losing connection with overhead wires that were more commonly used for trolley service.
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Location: Rochester Subway Gallery: Underground
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AutumnTwin@aol.comHEY!!! Here's a site on the Pines from when this hotel was still in use!!! Pretty neato.
http://ineedattention.com/pines/?photos=archv&show=archv_bldg_out_aerial.jpg |
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Location: The Pines Hotel Gallery: Trip with Drie
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AutumnTwin@aol.comTwo thoughts come to mind.....
....one was remembering this turn-of-the-century converted resort in Wisconsin I attended camp at that had a few claw-foot cast iron tubs like this one....and how DIVINE it was to bathe in them! ....the other thought was the tub from the movie "The Money Pit" when that lovely porcelain tub falls through the rotted floor and shatters....and Tom Hanks' obnoxious laugh at it when it does! |
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Location: Bennett School for Girls Gallery: Close Calls
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AutumnTwin@aol.comYeah, usually it took people getting killed in fires or something in narrow passageways like this one before someone would wake up and realize that designs like this were a BAD idea.....unfortunately in most cases when it was too late to save people.
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Location: Bennett School for Girls Gallery: Close Calls
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Location: Old Essex County Jail Gallery: Solitude