|
archiphoto
location:
North Carolina
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Weston WV
< on 11/26/2013 6:35 AM >
|  | | | Four photographers and I reserved the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (also known as Weston State Hospital) for the day. Ever go through your images and you're like, "I think I'm taking too many of the same damn pictures."? Yeah. I felt that.
WINDOWS!
1.
2.
3. As in most places like this, people believe it is haunted. I don’t believe in ghosts, so…I ain’t afraid of no ghosts. One of them is “Lilly”, who was a child who grew up on the premises of the asylum. The weird thing is people will bring toys into the children’s room as gifts for Lilly. Yeah...
4.
STAIRS!
5.
6.
7. I love the ironwork detail of these stairs.
STAIRS WITH WINDOWS!
8.
9.
HALLS AND OPEN DOORS!
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
PLUMBING FIXTURES!
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
RANDOM SHIT!
24.
25.
26. Sometimes you have to remember to look up, just keep your mouth close so you don't accidentally eat a lead chip.
27. The crematorium.
28.
29.
30.
31. One of the few pics I actually took outside.
32. Greenhouse
[last edit 11/26/2013 5:31 PM by archiphoto - edited 1 times]
|
|
DirtyBeaches
location:
Raleigh, NC
Gender: Male
| | Re: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Weston WV
<Reply # 1 on 11/26/2013 1:34 PM >
| | | | very cool shots.
Did you get to stay into the night?
|
|
lonewolf34
  
location:
Phoenix
Gender: Male
| | Re: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Weston WV
<Reply # 2 on 11/26/2013 1:50 PM >
| | | | Cool shots.
You said you reserved it, so it was a private tour? Did you get to see stuff that isn't on the normal tours?
|
|
Punchy
location:
NC
| | Re: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Weston WV
<Reply # 3 on 11/26/2013 3:46 PM >
| | | | So which buildings did they let you into? Like I said on the other TALA thread, from the website, it appears that they've cut back on the number of buildings that they let the photography tours into to the Kirkbride, Med Center, and the Geriatric building. From your pics, it looks like you got into the Kirkbride, the Med Center, the Geriatric building (that's where the Otis elevator can is, right?) and the Women's Auxiliary (along with a side trip to the greenhouse). So where are they letting the photo tours go these days? Or did you arrange a separate tour outside of the regular photo tours?
Oh, and Weston, not Western.
|
|
insulinguy
 
location:
Fort Worth, Texas
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Weston WV
<Reply # 4 on 11/26/2013 5:25 PM >
| | | | Posted by Punchy
Oh, and Weston, not Western.
|
+ 1,000,000
pro-abortion, anti-christ |
|
archiphoto
location:
North Carolina
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Weston WV
<Reply # 5 on 11/26/2013 5:35 PM >
| | | | Punchy: Thanks for the correction, I appreciate it.
Punchy and Lonewolf: Yes - private, not one of the regular photo tours. I'm not great at dealing with a set schedule and a bevy of photogs wandering around. Buildings were the Kirkbride Building, Medical Center, Forensics, Geriatrics (yes there's an Otis elevator), Women's Auxiliary and the greenhouse.
Dirty Beaches: Didn't stay the night, wasn't interested.
|
|
dammband
 
location:
Atlanta, Georgia
Gender: Male
| | Re: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Weston WV
<Reply # 6 on 11/26/2013 6:50 PM >
| | | | Nice shots yo!!!
|
|
Turd Furgusen
 
location:
Charleston, WV
Gender: Male
I think marijuana is just nature's way of saying high!
| |  | | Re: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Weston WV
<Reply # 7 on 12/10/2013 4:22 PM >
| | | | That's not a crematorium, it's a morgue freezer. They buried all patients that had passed away.
Everyone has a dark side, mines just a little more illuminated. |
|
Powered by AvBoard AvBoard version 1.5 alpha
Page Generated In: 78 ms
|
|
Ethics