Tunnels interconnected all of the complex, carrying power, steam, laundry and food throughout the hospital. This is a typical causeway that would have been very busy when the hospital was operating. In some places, signs still point to defunct areas of the hospital.
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The giant radiators in this casting shop look like a flag to me.
The ADM Quality Assurance Labs haven’t changed much, except for that it has become a common home for the homeless.
The common rooms bulge out of the institutional geometry of the wards.
The main shaft’s cable spooled with bird castings belies the fact that lives used to dangle from its steel-wound strength. Arrows on the circles would indicate the mine level the cars were currently at.
This heavy door opens directly into the missile vault and was used to load and unload the missile erector.
The top floor’s old-fashioned hospital ways were too much to pass without a photo or two… with the paint falling off the walls it was as if the building was shedding its skin in an effort to become rejuvenated or useful.
In this photo you see three lives of Lyric: 1.) The Art Deco murals showing the Vaudeville background; 2.) The suspended ceiling put in when the building was converted for film; 3.) The explorers, photographers and others who worked in and on the building before its final demolition.
Goop and slop slip to drop in the shame drain.
I like to imagine this as an old-timey radio microphone.