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| One of many tight hallways | Doors have been removed from individual rooms... | |
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| ... and bathtubs have been boarded over. | Moldy walls | |
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| The Watermelon Room | From the Henry Darger line of utility room signs | |
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| Not An Exit | Not An Exit | |
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of many buildings on this forlorn hospital campus, the Holiday House
doesn't strike me as particularly festive. The tight hallways are
lined with even tighter sherbert colored rooms, barely large enough
for a bed and empty now except for ceramic bathroom fixtures. Colors
that are supposed to soothe are unnatural and disturbingly out of
place in the lush green setting that surrounds the hospital. One
can imagine a patient staring out the windows to the wooded acres,
desperately wishing for an exit from the Candyland colors. But everywhere
you turn in the Holiday House are reminders that there is no egress.
Doors sternly proclaim 'Not An Exit', there are no fire escapes
in the rooms and forget about sneaking out the basement. The crimson
exit arrow on the fire escape route map shows up very few times,
and the lower level has no instances of it.
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