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Lights On

Now in the largest building on the property, I believe it is a medical-surgical facility. Most rooms looked pretty decrepit, but the lights were still working in many of them.
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Why the hell would anyone still pay to power the place? i can't imagine any sort of work still being done in the shambles it's become...weird..
Chris
Thu 04-07-2005
Someone probably forgot to shut off the line, and since the windows and doors are boarded or cemented over, no one knows about it. A few extra lights on aren't gonna run up the electric bill for a decent sized hospital enough to notice either.

I'm just surprised the place hasn't caught fire yet.
Motts
Thu 04-07-2005
The thing that suprises me is how the bulbs are still working. I tried rigging up a lighted area in the basement for my mother's plants to winter out in. I used flourescent fixtures but the tubes would usually die out after 2-4 months of 16h/day use. Go figure...
Mnementh
Fri 06-10-2005
Mine too. Things were just made better back then.
Cyrus
Tue 06-14-2005
the flourescent lighting gives the whole image a eerie creeped out mood...
shadow
Sat 07-09-2005
Mnementh, flourescent bulbs can last for a very, very long time when they are not turned on and off. The starting process wears out the bulb.
Louie
Wed 07-27-2005
Yes, it's surprising there hasn't been a bad electrical fire that burned out of control in the places where the windows are all sealed....

.....it would be a terrible loss to the beauty of the exterior.

This room must've been SO BRIGHT when all the lights worked and were on!
AutumnTwin
Sat 08-20-2005
The power is left on to prevent 'street miners' from stripping the place of copper. As for the life of these bulbs, if you have a high quality bulb and a good industrial ballast you can gets YEARS from a bulb. The store I manage still has almost 90% tubes from when the store was built 10 years ago, whereas the 40 or so halogen Par3 50 watt lamps have been replaced 4 times over during that same time.
Mathue
Thu 11-03-2005
I have been to many places that are still on the power grid. It really is not all that uncommon. I did some research and apparently when the circuit is never broken(.i.e. the light is never turned off) a flouresent bulb can last almost 20 years.
but there is always somthing sinister about working lights at an abandoned hospital, almost like they left to go home for the night and never cam back.
Maypost
Thu 11-17-2005
It may not have caught fire yet, but there's still plenty of time. Everything's just sitting around again rotting away.
Nancy
Tue 06-13-2006
i still can't belive that some of the lights in this place were still working. who was paying for the hydro and did the heaters still work and it looks like a good place for homeless people to go to plug in stoolen tvs and such, cool picture tho
Dean
Wed 08-22-2007
Were those lights buzzing?
Lithium
Fri 04-18-2008
Yes, mot of the working lights made buzzing and humming noises.
Motts
Mon 04-21-2008
Great place for a "Masters of Horror" program.
Jack_
Fri 07-18-2008
I can't believe those lights are still on, 3 years later.
Randomlypickedsn
Wed 01-14-2009
perhaps the electric company will send them to collections for not paying the bill. lol
widegrooves
Sat 08-14-2010
It's so...odd...how these places are unique, yet the interiors can very much resemble each other. I went on a weekend trip out to Louieville, and on the Waverly tour, our camera flashes lit up the otherwise pitch dark rooms , making the photos look as if there were fluorescent lights glaring off the dull gray and white paint. (it was SO hot that night, we were hoping for cold spots!)
STL girl
Mon 09-06-2010
Il bet thos old light ballasts along with the caulking are full of PCBs
Dave
Wed 04-11-2012

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