A phone called came one Friday afternoon, after feeling shunned from potential employers. I was one month out of my Lab Tech training. Allowed to put "things in skin" and no peachy flesh to peirce. The call was from Riverview Mental Hospital 700 Lougheed Hwy. Job Interview for the lab.
Insane peachy flesh waiting for me.
The first time I saw the grounds. past the curious looks from the highway, was a day before my interview. The 244 acres were drapped with fog... good ol'bc weather.
Voodoo - Godsmack playing, exciting me even more.
Ive watched this place, wondered about it.. feared it. I was here.
The site is housed by a min of 20 buildings. The original three buildings stand. West Lawn. Centre Lawn & East Lawn. Patient care buildings are virtually extinct. Perhaps two still house the mentally ill. The government seeming to think dumpsters are an acceptable dwelling. "Get them out of the community," replace the stigma... to.... addicts, junkies, nutcases, useless to socitey.
West Lawn: Opened 1912, closed 1983. A mental hospital that has the history of the early 19th century. Labotomies, shock treatments, punishment not wellbeing.
A dark place.. layers of every human emotion on the walls.. painted over, sterilized.
Deleted.
Bars in the windows.
Gorgeous red brick and large white pillars extending to the sky leading the visitor to stare up at the enterance. Looking for the sign,
"Abandon all hope ye who enter here".
A beautiful but scared building. The first two floors are boarded up, chainlinks of fence meant to discourage exsisting patients from trying to get in. Asbestos heaven and lead paint. A true beauty.
I've missed a few chances to enter her. Fear of glass and the fear of another stopped me. A few weeks ago a fellow UE'er told me of an open door. The way in.
I entered...
Insane peachy flesh waiting for me.
The first time I saw the grounds. past the curious looks from the highway, was a day before my interview. The 244 acres were drapped with fog... good ol'bc weather.
Voodoo - Godsmack playing, exciting me even more.
Ive watched this place, wondered about it.. feared it. I was here.
The site is housed by a min of 20 buildings. The original three buildings stand. West Lawn. Centre Lawn & East Lawn. Patient care buildings are virtually extinct. Perhaps two still house the mentally ill. The government seeming to think dumpsters are an acceptable dwelling. "Get them out of the community," replace the stigma... to.... addicts, junkies, nutcases, useless to socitey.
West Lawn: Opened 1912, closed 1983. A mental hospital that has the history of the early 19th century. Labotomies, shock treatments, punishment not wellbeing.
A dark place.. layers of every human emotion on the walls.. painted over, sterilized.
Deleted.
Bars in the windows.
Gorgeous red brick and large white pillars extending to the sky leading the visitor to stare up at the enterance. Looking for the sign,
"Abandon all hope ye who enter here".
A beautiful but scared building. The first two floors are boarded up, chainlinks of fence meant to discourage exsisting patients from trying to get in. Asbestos heaven and lead paint. A true beauty.
I've missed a few chances to enter her. Fear of glass and the fear of another stopped me. A few weeks ago a fellow UE'er told me of an open door. The way in.
I entered...
