Gauge

that's not a guage, those are guages on top, that is the temperature recorder. those colored arms are styluses(pens)and the whole wheel moves ina circle, it works like a record player, with the styluses moving around to record tmeperature, the circle is a paper wheel that is meant to be changed after each use

One of the pens records temp, the other colors normally record other things such as pressure, flow ect...

setrge

Those gauges look fairly modern, late 70's at the earliest. When did this place close?

They still use these today. Alot of water districts use them and the spiral Paper needs to be changed.

We have one at work in the computer room, it measures Temperature and Humidity.

It's called a circular chart recorder.

in the power house where i work we record
Red- tempature
Purple- flow Gas
Green- flow steam
Blue- flow oil
and they have to be changed every 24 hours

Whats the story behind this place anyway?Will someone please tell me I have to know?!

I live pretty damn close to that hospital. I've driven past it, through it, but never went in. Kings Park Psychiatric Center is another one that I would like to "Visit" one day.

It's called a "Bristol Recorder" late 80's design, still in use today, the chart can be set to record for 24 hrs or switch over for 7 days

I used to hang out here with my friends all the time in late 70's early 80's. The power plant was closed long before that. We pulled on the chains once and dropped at least 100 yards of coal 50 feet to the floor. We used to push big cement blocks off the top to watch them crash. We also partied on the roof of Edgewood. Donovans patrol was the private security that used to patrol the place. We used to go just to get chased by them. We knew the grounds much better than they did. Tunnels from building to building. We would carry big tins of biscuts we found in the fallout shelters to the roof and throw them off.

@Rick: This is exactly the sort of behavior that will make most people here sick. If you used to do this stuff but have since grown up and out of it years age, just don't even tell us - we don't want to know.

Screwing with the rent-a-cops, fine. I'm not above that myself.

Removing things from the fallout shelters just to throw them is disgusting. Do you know what a find an intact (or even largely intact) fallout shelter would be? Throwing blocks off the roof is dumb and dangerous. Finding crap like that is just what it takes to get security tightened up.

I agree 100% with Zorb. Behaviour like dropping cement block off the rtoof purely for the sake of destruction is reprehensible.

Amen, Zorb. Those who enter these places to explore, photograph, document, and preserve are heroes in my opinion. They capture the fascinating journey of natural decomposition of something human made. Left alone, this can be stunningly beautiful. Plus, given the subject matter, it sets the imagination free wondering what an average day was like when these buildings were alive. The photography on Opacity does both of these perfectly.

I detest those who enter and destroy for no other reason but juvenile immaturity and stupidity. To find something interesting, then deface or destroy it so no one else can experience it, is extremely arrogant and self centered.