Joint Chiefs of Math / Best Friends

Last year there was a fest in Philadelphia called 2PieceFest3. All bands obviously only had 2 members in them. Some of the bands included: 1994!, Bubonic Bear, Deer Friends, Footnotes, Japanther, Sisters, Slingshot Dakota and Weekends. The only band I was able to shoot was Joint Chiefs of Math.




Another band that played that night was Best Friends. This is a video that Frank shot.

Oak Hill Hospital

Oak Hill Hospital was notorious for its poor conditions and abuse of patients. It opened its doors in 1925, and was shut down in 1991 by a federal court. There have since been numerous civil and class-action lawsuits involving patients and employees of this place.

During the early years, Oak Hill was considered a "state of the art" facility. With a good reputation this hospital set the standard for other states to follow. With declining conditions decades later many patients filed lawsuits against the hospital for reasons of abuse, neglect, poor living conditions... even medical testing. A small morgue was all that stood between the patients and a cemetery on site where graves have been repeatedly uncovered by erosion.

Hudson Hospital

The entire facility was built over the last three decades of the 1800's. As psychiatry moved away from inpatient treatments, it began to decline in use until its closure in 2001. Today, it is slowly deteriorating out of public view as it awaits reuse.

Chantal Hospital

This hospital began with a single building on one hundred acres of land and expanded to, at its peak, over thirty buildings and nine hundred acres. The campus is massive and I was only able to explore a fraction of it.

Suffolk Breaker

The "Suffolk Breaker" was constructed in 1930 and began operating in 1932. This breaker was the largest coal breaker in the world. 20 miles of railroad track were laid, 3,800 tons of steel and more than 10,000 cubic yards of concrete were used. A mile and a half of conveyor lines, 25 miles of conduit, 118 miles of wire and cable and 20 miles of pipe were installed. When the breaker was constructed it was divided into two sides. Each side could be operated independently, producing 12,500 tons of coal a day. Once the raw coal enters the production process within the breaker it took just 12 minutes to pass through the entire breaker. The breaker was in operation for 31 years.

Albright Fabrics - Part II

This is from a recent trip made a few weeks ago. There are more photos from a previous trip located here

Paper Mill

A few weeks back I visited a soon to be demolished paper mill. You can find a brief history about the location here from one of my previous visits.