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Crib

The cribs... each barred piece could be slid down for access to both sides; this one has both down.
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for some reason, this picture gives me the creeps
anna
Fri 06-03-2005
Absatively me too.
Jeanne
Sat 06-04-2005
An incredible sadness eminates from this room. Chills up and down the spine.
Mystwict@aol.com
Sat 06-04-2005
It should give you the chills. In lots of institutions, patients were cagd up in these things for days on end! Treated worse than animals they were!
Max
Wed 06-08-2005
I haven't seen a place like this on the net for years.
Cyrus
Mon 06-13-2005
Wow, kind of creepy if you ask me. My parents had a bed like that for me when I was little. When I was old enough not to fall out of my bed, both sides of it were let down permanently to make a normal looking bed. Only difference was, it didn't seem so...creepy.
Courtney
Fri 06-17-2005
I still have nightmares of the time my family left me in a hosital in a bed like this! While I peered through the bars to the window as they walked away holding each others hands.
~Me
Fri 06-17-2005
Very creepy pic..
Looks more like the cages they use to transport livestock than any sort of bed..
Nice shot but!
Rusty_Nail
Sun 06-19-2005
Looks like something you would see in an old horror movie.
Ryan
Tue 06-21-2005
Seeing pictures like this it's definitely bittersweet. Amazing chronicles of history...but so gruesome. Just thinking about the things that happened in that room is nauseating...Imagine seeing a child, as old as 5 or 6 years old, stuck in a tiny little cage like that! All because they had a disability...
Kat
Wed 06-22-2005
Man I'm glad I found your site but it's really giving me the creeps...when I was in the California Conservation Corps I was stationed in San Bernadino and we were based in an abandoned state asylum, lock rooms, bard on windows, and the place was haunted big time! if ya wanna hear more about it email me at dig_a_pony101@yahoo.com
Darren
Wed 08-10-2005
I can picture children in thoses cribs, makes me sad 8-(
rtotten
Thu 02-16-2006
Holy snikies...auf;lsdjf bah creepy! Dark and damp and DARK! andwith all the rusties...reminds me of my basement...bah! Im just waiting for someone or something to pop its face out and bite the kneecaps of some unexpecting person...eek
LoudLove
Mon 02-20-2006
this is one of the saddest pictures i have seen to think some little child spent his or her days in this crib is heartbreaking to say the least
sande
Tue 04-25-2006
Reminds me of a cage to trap a lion or similiar.

I can understand why they use them. It's hard to comprehend when you don't need one, that someone could.
Felyne
Tue 10-10-2006
can u email me what building it was in? dodrerr@hotmail.com
rayn
Sun 01-14-2007
How terrible... those poor people...
Mel
Thu 04-26-2007
The saddness of mentaly ill infants...not just one, but how many over the years?
DIGGER
Sun 06-24-2007
This is makes me so Sick to see this!!!! I have worked with the Mentaly disabled and all of my residents where rescued fr
Heather
Fri 11-02-2007
Has no one here worked in a hospital or been around in the 70's or even after? Cribs like these with covers over the top have been used in children's/pediatric wards for years. It's a safety issue, if no one is with the baby/toddler all the time, the tops of the cribs and the sides are secured so the child doesn't fall or climb out. I remember as a student if we left one of the tops open, we were in big doodoo. It's not a cage, it's a crib. Haven't any of you with children EVER had your kiddo in a "pack'n'play" or playpen? If not, check with your parents, cos you probably were.
AvalonSeeker
Fri 02-01-2008
ohh that looks comfy...lol.
Lauren
Sun 03-30-2008
The kids in these cribs were severely retarded, not mentally ill. I've seen old photos of them in use. They are high so the nurses could reach the little kids. These are all in storage now, but when they were in use, they just looked like cribs with kids in them.
Trishawish
Sat 08-16-2008
I actually know something about this facility. One of my friends worked here and one of my friends grew up here. Many of the kids here were so severely retarded that they couldn't have been rehabilitated. My friend who worked here said that many were comatose. However, during the depression, they caught some of the overflow from overflowing orphanages. One of my friends was left here with her sister by parents who couldn't feed them. They never returned for the kids and they grew up in this facility. They were normal kids when they were left here. Years of no stimulation and no education took a toll on them.
jane
Sat 08-23-2008
Will haben please :-) mail to: megadancefm@yahoo.de
Deee
Fri 05-22-2009
The baby fell off and bumped its head
ilovehorseyrides
Sun 08-16-2009
I'm over 50 but I have vivid memories of being in a crib in my early years. I remember cyring when I was placed in there and my mother would tie rosaries around the bars for me to play with. They would never do that now, I suppose I was lucky I didn't hang myself! But it still amazes me how far back I can remember and the things I remember.
eldokid@aol.com
Tue 11-24-2009
How interesting. They just passed some bill forcing daycares and I assume hospitals to replace all drop side cribs.
Meri
Wed 12-22-2010

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