Talk:Oregon State Hospital/Archive 1

Setting for Cuckoo's Nest novel?
I don't have my copy of the book handy, but this site says that the asylum in Cuckoo's nest is Oregon. I doubt the OSH is mentioned by name in the book, but it seems a good bet that it is the hospital to which Kesey was referring. I'll try to dig up a source, like an interview. I know Kesey worked at the same psychiatric hospital in California in which he was introduced to LSD, so that was the inspiration for the novel, not necessarily OSH. I see also that actual hospital patients were used as extras in the film. Need to find a better source for this than imdb.com, however. Katr67 19:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Cuckoo's Nest was filmed in some of the closed psychiatric wings at Oregon Health Sciences Hospital up on Pill Hill in Portland. Taco Viva (talk) 20:28, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Additional sources
Comments in Statesman-Journal by Mayor Taylor, regarding siting of new hospital -Pete (talk) 22:21, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Google search for more info on historic district listing. Katr67 (talk) 22:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * J building tower to be preserved. Katr67 (talk) 18:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Demolition article. I was also able to take a tour inside the J Building, and have pics. Katr67 (talk) 17:16, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Sources for the Junction City annex: Junction City psychiatric hospital downsized, Hospital annex expected to bring jobs to Junction City. Aboutmovies (talk) 03:36, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Fairview
Just an FYI, I am beginning an article on the Fairview Training Center in Southeast Salem. Quite an interesting facility... --Trashbag (talk) 16:21, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Great, we've needed that one for a while. Let me know if you need pictures. I take it you saw the news in the S-J about it today? Katr67 (talk) 17:01, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Is there a link to this article? tedder (talk) 17:22, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Regarding the news article, yeah rather ironic that one showed up on the day I decided to start the article. Not surprising that more problems have been found.  Tedder, do you mean a link from the OSH article? --Trashbag (talk) 18:08, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Here's the article. It's on the front page of the Statesman-Journal today. Katr67 (talk) 21:34, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Merge discussion

 * Neutral The hist dist article was recently split from the OSH article. I originally added the info to the article, not making a separate article mostly out of laziness (i.e. not feeling like doing justice to a full article). I don't mind that it was split out, but I'd like to hear the rationales for both splitting and remerging. I'd lean toward leaving it split. If the OSH article were expanded as much as it has the potential to be, I think it would be better to have a separate historic district article. I don't feel all that strongly about it except from an organizational perspective--it's nice to have the NRHP articles stand alone when longer than a stub. Valfontis (talk) 04:03, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Cremains memorial
The memorial in the former morgue is still a work in progress (hit a snag with the local historic landmarks commission but is now proceeding). It is being designed by Lead Pencil Studio. I discovered there is an article on them today. Don't have time to add the info at the moment. Valfontis (talk) 17:45, 22 June 2013 (UTC)