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Pt. 2 of 4
Image #3 perfectly displays the abatement that's gone on within Building #23, and you can see this everywhere you go now throughout Pilgrim State. Images #4 & 5 were taken looking out the windows of the surgical rooms – where the lobotomies were performed – while 6 & 7 were shot in medical rooms adjacent to those. The image of Mark (#9), as well as #10 & 11, were taken in a padded cell – a first for us in our explorations. The recipe for lamb stew is printed on newspaper that was stuffed inside an electrical outlet.
For the history of the Pilgrim State Hospital, please see Pt. 1 of 4.
Absolutely love the label about "mental hygiene"... coming from a place that practiced literal brainwashing on its patients... just pour in a good dose of chlorine bleach and scrub out those dirty minds... I guess mental hygiene was more difficult to obtain than dental hygiene. Nurse Ratched's ghost must be haunting those halls too...
ReplyDeleteMust be spooky poking around a place like that where so many folks had their mental anatomy re-arranged for them...
As the videos from Pilgrim State offer up, apparently lobotomies were a desperate attempt by doctor's to do their work. Sad, but true.
ReplyDeleteIn the end, the only time I'm spooked in these places is when we happen upon someone else in them; be it squatters, addicts or looters. Overall, I feel comfortable in these places and I think that has to do with my respect for the buildings and compassion for those who existed within them in the past.
these are great pictures! i was here two days ago and yesterday with my dad and we were trying to find the rooms where the lobotomies took place, but couldn't quite figure it out. Do you happen to know what floor the lobotomy rooms were on? it would help a lot for my photography project! :)
ReplyDeleteTop floor, Anonymous. Yellow tiles from floor to ceiling and metal frame work lining each doorway in and out. See 2nd row from the top, right image for the view out of the window and the tiling that fills the room.
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