Dropped Ceiling

See! Dropped ceiling covering up what could be something different & interesting. This was on its way to becoming an antiseptic tube long ago =( It's like the building has now dropped its antiseptic tube pants and is running for freedom! I'm not sure what that means... What did I just say?!

Man, there's such an intense amount of moisture and mold and rot in this place! Look at the grime on those skylights. Must get a lot of rain...

completely Silent Hill.
damn, i wish i knew where to find places like that... i live in Gillette, Wyoming so i doubt i could stumble across abandoned places like that

hehe, of course theres alot of rain...its here in sunny England. :P

There is that horrid shade yellow again that so many hospitals seemed to love....

ahhhhh pretty shades of yellow. Doesn't yellow sometimes bring out madness in people? not the best place to put this color dont you think

No, no, Joe, it's red that is the color of madness. Yellow is the color of sunshine and happiness and daffodillies...

but then again, THIS particular yellow may have gone prodigal...

I love it because the door at the end seems to be in great shape--the way out!!!!

Joe, yes, I heard that too.... yellow is the color of maddness....

Re: the yellow walls.

The colours of the walls in most of Mott's photos always look drab and depressing. But when you think of it, he has shown us photos of green walls, yellow walls, brown walls, white walls, and pink walls. They all looked disheartening. The colour is not the trouble, it is the SHADES of the colours that were depressing.

Although born just inside the fifties, I can remember very well, interior decorating themes of those times. That fifties dull, rose pink, for instance. I still remember a melamine dinner set aaagh! And the scary shade of green bath we had in England.

When colours went psychadelic in the 60's, it's like there was some kind of backlash amongst government decorators as if those vivd lime greens and groovy purples were associated with LSD and drop outs. Nearly all governent buildings of those times were continually painted in drab, uninteresting shades of colour. (even today, things that are made in what I call "government grey" like ECG, and all heart monitor and blood pressure cables, are coloured that way because it is the cheapest colour to make, or so a pt who used to make them told me).

It wasn't really until the 80's and 90's that the bright beautiful colours used in decorating we see today began to be used. If you look in children's hospital corridors today, the colours are almost overwhelming, at least in Oz. (With lots of sun shiny yellow).

Thanks Debi! :-)
The colors could be pretty if the shades were brighter. Even white would be better than some of the shades of yellow and pink found in these places.
Thanks for the information though.

silent hill eat your heart out...not literally that would be gross!!

i hope everyone was wearing high shoes, and carrying a travel sized bottle of purell -

This hallway represents the current state of the office buildings and industry there is in Saginaw, MI!

when i worked there, the place wasnt the depressing nuthouse it seems here, add in a couple of thousand patients, and as many very very dedicated staff and it was actually a generally happy place to be. we tend to look upon asylums as bad places, but whittigham did offer asylum from the world outside, it was a complete community seperated from the pressures of the outside world.
and if this is on ward 12, then the door at the end leads to the old hospital laundry

Can you tell me where to find patient records for the 1950s and 60s please.

Thank you.

I have yellow 00 eyes.

That's a great visual pun, seeing as half of said ceiling is now on the floor!