12-18-2012, 12:26 AM
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dieselarchitect
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Lafayette Indiana
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Originally Posted by jplinville
Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The above is the specific facility that I'm referencing...today, it serves the area as 10 Wilmington Place, a high end retirement community. In the late 80's, we used to go inside at night and check out the "rubber rooms" that were in the basement. The place scared the bejesus out of us, which is why used to go there...to scare the hell out of each other.
It closed in 1979...Reagan wasn't POTUS until 1981.
EDIT It actually closed in 1978. In 1979 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in an attempt to keep developers from tearing it down, which has been the norm in the Dayton area for years.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/oh/oh0400/oh0402/data/oh0402data.pdf
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Reagan-era cuts slashed mental health care
If you google you will find numerous articles related to the Reagan era cuts to mental health funding. this is just the first article listed. The above institution happened to close before them but I believe a lot more closed afterward.
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