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I wonder if there was a reason that the sets of chairs are differently coloured - perhaps some were for staff, or some for particularly "troublesome" patients.
Tippy Typewriter
Mon 07-28-2008
the green chairs are for the aliens
silkster40z
Mon 07-28-2008
The colours of the chairs were probably to 'brighten the place up a bit'. Looks almost like there was a dance at some point.
Jack_
Mon 07-28-2008
No lonely chairs here. There all reminiscing about days gone by.

Did you sit in one of them Motts. It would be a nice place to rest after all theses wonderful photo's.
Canada
Mon 07-28-2008
They do look nice and cheery. Too bad you have no idea what's nesting in them.
Vastarien
Mon 07-28-2008
Oh, man, they are plastic!
(sheepish insomnia grin)
Vastarien
Mon 07-28-2008
I WOULD KILL FOR THOSE CHAIRS!!!!! AWESOME!!!!
Joe
Mon 07-28-2008
Pick out a chair u would sit on the Doctor will see u in a little bit.
Deb
Tue 07-29-2008
Looks like the room's ready for group therapy. :O)
JadeEyes
Tue 07-29-2008
is that a picture on the wall to the right of the green chair??
nick
Tue 07-29-2008
Wow. The colors in and of this room alone would be enough to MAKE me mentally unbalanced...
nvusofmotts
Tue 07-29-2008
MUSICAL CHAIRS!
EricaM
Tue 07-29-2008
Nick it looks like a picture on the wall right of the green chair. U Rock Nick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deb
Wed 07-30-2008
Those types of plastic chairs always come in a variety of colors. Very similar-ish chairs in my middle school. All the desks had different colored chairs even though they all looked the same.
Elanor
Mon 08-04-2008
a very open airy and altogether tidy room, very pleasant...
Cris. N
Tue 08-05-2008
Carl Childers was in the nervous hospital
for quite a good bit.....
Guitorman
Tue 08-05-2008
My chair heaven! I NEED! I NEED!
Peaches
Sat 08-09-2008
this picture tells a story of the way people were sitting on the last day that this building was in operation. When it was time to leave, the people just left the chairs the way they moved them not thinking this would be the way they'd remain for years and years to come.
Hikarino
Sun 08-10-2008
It looks almost like they're having a conversation among themselves...
Saturn
Sun 08-10-2008
the pictures you guys take in the years to come will be worth more then any artifact

you alow buildings now gone to rubble to reveal part of there past and i thanks oyu for sharing your works
jer
Fri 08-22-2008
Nice exposure control on this shot. I am now bummed about not getting in here when I was out on LI. I spent the day running around Kings Park with friends, and when security started at 3 or 4 or whatever it was I headed over here alone and hit the starburst building. I wish I had had more time to do this one as well!
desmet
Tue 08-26-2008
woah vintage chairs !
Ari
Tue 09-02-2008
I love the way the chairs are grouped. The one yellow one looks directly at the others, with a second yellow kind of hovering at its side like an assistant sitting there with the doctor/nurse talking to the patients. And the rest of the chairs facing those, or looking off to one side, like a group of patients, some of them distracted by whatever is off right of frame (their left)... It's like Hikarino says, it tells a story.
Ilaynay
Tue 09-02-2008
Rasta Chairs
Peet
Thu 09-11-2008
Don't let this picture fool you: I'll bet it's no fun being crazy.
Justice
Sat 10-04-2008
Now not to be a bummer but as you can see the colour of the chairs seem to resemble that of the rainbow scale
thus leading it to be a supportive
hospital of
"gay pride"
;)
MikeyMasked
Fri 10-17-2008
Seat's so bright ,my, what a view. Gazing about , oh ,what to do.Conversations all busy with everyone about. Sits all empty and astrew. Come back.Come back if only a few.
Tammy B
Sat 12-06-2008
I like how they are grouped by color, green on right, yellow in the middle, red on the left
Kristiara
Sun 12-14-2008
these chairs were made of fiberglass and I will always remember how my legs were so itchy when I sat in them!
Elisa
Mon 12-29-2008
I worked for a hospital that built a totally new building in the 70's. The colors of those chairs are the colors that were on the walls, the chairs, the carpets, and everything else you can think of when we moved into the new building in Aug 1977. So that would give some idea of the date for these chairs.
Claudia
Sun 01-04-2009
dalir15@aol.com

Is this still open?
dal
Mon 02-02-2009
The last place I was in had these brightly-colored, square plastic chairs like the ones you might see in preschool, only adult-size. They were always cold and uncomfortable.
Althea
Sun 09-27-2009
Perhaps the chairs were to mess with the patients minds???
Misty Issel
Sun 11-15-2009
They probably weren't for patients. All that metal is dangerous.
Althea
Tue 05-11-2010
i like this onee
lauraaa
Mon 05-24-2010
i sat in them chars in 1960 to 19 63 be course i burnt a mans barn down in 1960 , I spent 2 years of my life in that place for nothing............., I got out in 1963 So i remember that place very well i remember the superintendents thy ware very nice to me , and did no think i belong their with all the nuts.
dug stineback 1960 to 63
Fri 09-24-2010
The chairs are a Luther Conover design from the 1950s. They are made of fiberglass. The chairs are probably different colors just because different colors were available. These were manufactured in the whole rainbow of colors as well as black and white to match any decor.
Devin
Mon 05-30-2011

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