Friday, June 16, 2017
The Oil Recycler was established in the 1970s and was operational until sometime around 2014. Despite a small staff their annual revenue had reached tens of millions of dollars at one time, though I'm guessing that was during its prime, which appears to have been a couple decades ago.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Rockland Psychiatric Center was originally opened in 1927 with over 5,000 beds. At its peak, it housed over 9,000 psychiatric patients with a staff of 2,000. Along with most other psychiatric hospitals, new medicines and specialized treatments came into favor by the 1970's and these took the place of more controversial treatments such as Electro-Shock therapy and Pre-Frontal Lobotomies. These new treatment methods resulted in better recovery thus increasing discharge rates and greatly reducing the need for such a high capacity of patients in such massive campuses.
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This is part five of an epic 7 part, 2,600 mile, road trip.
