A 1930s photo taken by my father of "Old Faithful" in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming

A 1930s photo taken by my father of "Old Faithful" in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming where he would take my mother and my brother and sister for many camping trips in the 30s before I was born



Houses in 1906 Pomona, California on Holt Avenue















The 500 block of East Second Street in Pomona in 1954






Child actor Bobby Driscoll, who was born in the state of Iowa and got into the movies after his family moved to California...He was Disney`s top child star in the late 40`s and early 50`s but after being dumped by Disney in the early 50`s, he turned to drugs and got into trouble with the law and then dropped out of sight during the 60`s...His last known film was with Frances Farmer and Connie Stevens, in 1958, called "The Party Crashers" which was a flop, and which was also Frances Farmer`s last movie after being released from the state hospital system in 1950...Driscoll was found dead in an abandoned apartment building in 1968 in New York City, at the age of 31, from a drug overdose, and no one knew who he was at the time...He is now buried in a pauper`s grave in New York City...

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Frances Farmer--------------click here for my 5th weblog

Frances Farmer, the former movie actress whose own mother had her committed to a State Hospital in Washington State in 1942, really could vouch for what really goes on inside a State Hospital as she experienced it first hand and for several years and it also ruined her life and her career as a movie actress...They made a movie about her life in 1982 called simply "Frances" with Jessica Lange playing Frances...Frances Farmer died penniless and alone in 1970...

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Louise Fletcher..."Nurse Rachett"...

Louise Fletcher as "Nurse Rachett" in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo`s Nest" (1975) with Jack Nicholson...The film really does a pretty good job showing the realism of what really goes on inside a State Hospital...Another good television movie based on a true life experience of what someone really did experience inside a Pennsylvania State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is the 1978 film "The Other Side Of Hell" with Allen Arkin...

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"The Snake Pit" (1948)......click here for my 3rd weblog

Movie poster for "The Snake Pit" (1948) with Olivia De Havilland and Mark Stevens about what goes on inside a State Hospital without actually showing what really goes on inside a State Hospital...If you happen to ever see this film, you will notice that in this film there is a very fictional part whereby the De Havilland charactor is being treated one on one by the ward psychiatrist while all the rest of the patients are being ignored by the ward psychiatrist, but since De Havilland is the star of this picture, she gets special treatment...However, in real life state hospitals, this would never happen...They are merely a place for warehousing, on a grand scale, mental patients and then left to rot and die there if no one on the outside cares about them enough to get them out, or it was one of the patient`s relatives who had them committed in the first place in order to get the patient out of the way...And secondly, there does not exist, in any state hospital, a psychiatrist for each ward as depicted in this movie, but only a regular low grade medical doctor, who could not find work any place else but a state hospital, for each ward, and his main function is to prescribe drugs for the patients to turn them into vegetables and walking zombies (note: The Thorezine Shuffle)...The only psychiatrist you will find in any state hospital would be the hospital administrator himself, and that would be it, and he is definately not there to give a patient one on one therapy...


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The Los Angeles County Museum Of Natural History...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History...Erected in 1909...Interesting place to visit...

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