Made famous by the movie… the symbolic structure gets a makeover
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The crumbling Oregon State Hospital had toxic paint, asbestos and a leaky roof – an enduring symbol of the psychiatric neglect portrayed in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” filmed at the 127-year-old facility.
On Thursday, officials unveiled part of a new hospital that will replace the decrepit asylum and, they hope, a legacy of real abuses that never made it into a Hollywood film but very well could have.
Forty percent of the 19th century building was unusable, left to rot and collect piles of pigeon droppings.
Never actually saw the whole movie… but now I know it was filmed in Oregon.
