Exercise Room

Ooooh, this is great! I like the perspective given by the windows on the right, I love the colors of the mossy bricked wall on the left, the detritus on the floor makes the overall atmosphere quite somber, and the odd yellow light shining through the door at the very end of the shot lends an incredible feeling of distance. There is quite the feeling of tension or expectation in this shot. Very nice indeed.

I agree completely; especially with the feeling of tension, because I have it when viewing this photo! I keep thinking, "If only I can make it across this walkway to the door...if only I can make it..."

I dunno... I find it much more calming. Basically because of the sense that it's overcast outside, and the fact that I grew up down the street from a place that was an old clock tower, so, I guess I'm imposing childhood memories on this too. :P

Great description Lynne! **dat's my Lynne!!**

I find it odd that for a phyciatric hospital there are no bars or mesh on these big windows......

Mebby..."exorcisms" if the asylum is old enough!

Why would you want to perform an exorcism here? It doesn't make any sense... Not that I think it would work anyway. How would you feel if you were told by strangers to get out of your house and go toward the light? I'd be pretty pissed off!

Grace...I thinkn it looks so grey because the windows are so dirty!! The sun could be out!!...LOL
Jude, I wondered the same thing about the mesh...Motts, could it have been an excersize room for employees?

Ahh, great minds think alike huh Tony? :-) I was wondering that too, some sort of R&R room for employees, or dining room for them?

Thanks Motts!!!
**Yes Jude, we do!!**

In One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest, quite a few of the characters checked themselves in for R & R. It would have been nice, to have a place for the employees though.

Going to a mental hospital for R&R???
Now that's a strange one...

'Tis true, 'tis true! The Kellogg Sanitarium in Battle Creek Michigan was one of the more expensive places to go for R & R.

And they made great cereal, too.

I like the color. And the lines.

Kellogg's? Battle Creek? Who are the doctors there? Snap, Crackle & Pop?

Paging Doctor Tony the Tiger

LoL! Ok, so the last comment made me think of a blonde joke...here it is:

A blonde called her old boyfriend and said, "Please come over here and
help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure it out or how to
get it started."

Her old boyfriend asked, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?"

The blonde said, "According to the picture on the box, it's a tiger."

Her old boyfriend decided to go over and help with the puzzle.

She let him in and showed him where she had the puzzle spread all over the
table.

He studied the pieces for a moment, looked at the box, then turned to her
and said,! "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able
to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a tiger."

He took her hand and said, "Second, I want you to relax. Let's have a nice
cup of hot chocolate and then............",

he sighed, .

"Let's put all these frosted flakes! back in the box."


ROFLMBO! It sounds like something I would do! LoL!

Heeee Heeee, :-)

I don't know about you guys and gals, but this room looks to small to me, to be a dining room or exercise room...I mean, look at it. If it's too small for mentally ill people, it's DEFINITELY too small for some rich dude checking in for R&R. Just my .02

Speaking of the kellogg sanitarium, has anyone seen " THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE "?

yes

Psycadellic one,
No, why do you ask? Has someone taken it?

The lack of mesh on the windows is probably because they open into an inner courtyard.

I can see bars on the outside of the windows. I feel this is some kind of room where the patients could come to and relax while enjoying the sunshine through the windows. Vision a row of deck chairs or any other type chairs lined up against the wall. Another thing, it could be a walkway to get from one end of the ward to another end. I have seen this type of walkway between wards.

"Mebby..."exorcisms" if the asylum is old enough!"
"Why would you want to perform an exorcism here? It doesn't make any sense... "

Well, Back in the day, probably before this asylum's time, more in the middle ages up through the 18 th century, it was thought that vilolent mental illness was really demonic possession. Ergo, if someone was having Schizophrenic or Psychotic episodes, they called the priest in, and he performed an exorcism.


"Speaking of the kellogg sanitarium, has anyone seen " THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE "?"
"No, why do you ask? Has someone taken it?"



Hah. Great movie, set in the
Battle CreekSanitarium run by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Back then, some sanitarium's and asylums were like resort spas. Very peculiar, especially with the modern view of institutions. Dr. Kellogg was one of the major proponents of "fitness culture" in the late 19th Century, a time when many urban Americans' diets were seriously lacking in fresh fruits and vegetables, or whole grains for that matter. More info at this article here http://info.detnews.co...mp;category=business

NEEDS HOUSE CLEANING

Motts:
In your description of this photo you mentioned and old floor plan. Typically do you find these documents at these sites or do you acquire them beforehand?

I find this shot incredible. Many others too mind. But the debris! Paint plaster rot rot and more rot. What rot it piles up so much rot. It amazes me that an adbandoned structure does this. It must be the absences, say heat maybe, more n likely.
I work and visit many old working structures. This just doesn't happen, to this degree. Yet I've seen it time again in your work and others.

Shun me and I die.

sad light coming of the window and the end of the hallway is dark...great feeling

Decay at it's best when seen from behind your lens..........

I work in a mental health hospital as a nursing assistant and we have general rooms which we use for art therapy, music therapy etc and these are sometimes just referred to as 'exercise' rooms. I suppose for the patients exercising the mind is just as important as the body....

Another great shot! It would be a cool room to hang out in...well, if one was not locked up in that building.

i love the windows...
but they dont look very jump proof...