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123. Dinning Hall
Built 1915 - Demolished 2012
This building was demolished in 2012
This building was the dinning halls for Group 2 buildings 122, 124 and later 40
Prior to building 93 being constructed with it massive kitchen each group had
its own
These first two pictures were taken back in December of 1994
On the right side can be seen building 124 which is no longer standing
January 2011
The front section was the kitchen and the side wings were the dinning rooms
Entrance to one of the dinning rooms
Inside the door was the lobby before the dining room
dinning room
On one side of the lobby was a bathroom
Roof of dinning room
Photograph - Kings Park Heritage Museum
The loading dock and delivery doors leading to two of the storage rooms
One other summer afternoon, we were hanging out on the south porch of 124. The
kitchen guys were hanging out on the loading dock with their chairs leaning back
against the wall, waiting for the dinner food truck to arrive from Bldg. 93
kitchen. We had to do something. I went into the treatment room and disassembled
the treatment lamp to acquire the heavy four foot long steel tube and Brad
grabbed his bottle rockets. We nonchalantly reappeared on our porch and set up
the bazooka. Brad loaded it and lit it off. The rocket shot across the driveway
and exploded under their chairs. Man, those guys went vertical.
Hijinks continued into wintertime. On numerous occasions, we loaded milk boxes
with snowballs and attacked the kitchen guys while they were setting up for
dinner. They learned fast, though, and eventually began returning fire from a
supply they kept in the refrigerator. After that, we always had the patients
enter first so we could ascertain the threat level. One evening, as we were
sitting in the dayroom watching TV, the porch door flew open and a cascade of
snowballs flew through the air. The kitchen guys!
- Barry
Looking in to the service and washing area
The kitchen
The kitchen
Doors to the basement storage area
Storage area
Old cast iron stairwell to the kicthen
Small storage cage for locking up goods
The open window was the staff room
Looking past the refrigerators in to the kitchen
The door in the background leads to the to storage rooms and delivery door
I worked in Group II evening shift during the latter half
of the 1970s when it operated as the MR Unit. My ward was on the ground floor of
Bldg. 124. One of my coworkers on the ward brought in a bundle of bottle rockets
one summer afternoon. As the kitchen staff was putting out the food in the steam
tables, we went down in the tunnel and snuck up the stairs into the dining room
anteroom so they would not see us coming through the outer door. We lined up a
dozen bottle rockets under the inner door and lit them off. The rockets flashed
across the floor and underneath the steam tables, exploding under the feet of
the kitchen guys. Their feet were moving fast, but they weren't going anywhere.
They looked like they were doing a Mexican hat dance.
- Barry
There were two large refrigerators and an area for washing and prepping
vegetables and cleaning pots
When fresh fruit was in season, the kitchen staff would
have big trays full along with the fruit syrup, which they served as dessert,
sometimes on top of cake. Peaches, strawberries, blueberries. They always had
too much leftover, so we would take it back to the ward and make Margaritas.
- Barry
Christmas 2010
Demolished 2012
8-2012 Clearing all the trees and brush away
Links to other sites for building 123
LI Oddities
Lost In Time
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KPPC
HISTORY .com
