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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…

One of the photographs shown in this newspaper article are of the gravy train which serves 4,000 daily prepared meals across the campus and is electrically heated.

To avoid a financial deficit, Dr. Hall announced "We're going to cut down on food, and hire no more attendants. We will be operating with far fewer attendants than we should have."

"One of the many growing problems at the state mental institutions is adequate housing for under-18 children and over-65 men and women." Many children are mixed with "chronically ill adult patients" and the 800 patients over the age of 65 "are housed…

In caring for the mentally ill in SC, Dr. Hall states, "doing everything possible to keep a prospective patient out of the (state mental) hospital." He goes on to explain that community programs for the mentally ill and a supportive family home life…

This cut out from a newspaper article shows a photograph of the new Food Service Kitchen with the caption "A bright spot in dark picture; gleaming new central kitchen."

The Columbia Record article gives an overview of how the elderly crowd the SC Mental Hospital and the new 60 treatment plan to decrease patient stay. The hospital can turn away senile people but it can not turn away senile people who's families can…

Here is an image of the State Park location, Food Service Building Cafeteria, now closed.

Front view of Food Service Building and the weigh station.

Front of the Food Service Building