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Front view of Food Service Building and the weigh station.

Front of the Food Service Building

Inez Fripp gives a brief history of the hospital and updates on the latest four buildings, including the Food Service building."The earliest attempt to provide a special place for the mentally ill in South Carolina was made by the Fellowship Society…

"A dining room scuffle between white and Negro Patients at the South Carolina Mental Hospital had 'racial overtones,' the institution's superintendent said Thursday." This fight occurred with two African American male patients and several hundred…

"The years 1951-1954 have been as a result the greatest period of sustained construction in the more than 125 years of the hospitals existance." "To replace the kitchen at the Columbia Division, from which the hospital was attempting to feed more…

On September 4, 1954 the new Food Service building was completed and contained a Cafeteria, Kitchen, and Bakery. Construction and Equipment cost was $1,281,901.52. This new building caters to feeding both Columbia and State Park divisions.

"Emphasis now must be placed on giving the newly admitted patients maximum psychiatric and medical treatment in order to give him the maximum chance of returning home."The longer a patient stays in treatment the more expensive it is for the State. So…

During its time of opening in 1954, the Food Service building was one of the finest Souteast, it contained some of the newest methods of storage and refrigeration.

In 1956, $762,986.77 was spent on food equipment and $123, 328.43 was spent on construction and improvements to the food service building.

"On May 7, 1956 at the presentation luncheon in the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, Leland E. Crenshaw, director of food service, accepted for the hospital the 1956 Food Service Award national honor plaque…for outstanding ahievement in food service…