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…
Building number 39 is the warehouse next to the Food Service Building. It contains 29,952 Total Building footage with a gross area of 30,772. It has one floor.
"To replace the kitchen at the Columbia Division, from which the hospital was attempting to feed more than 3,000 patients with equipment designed to feed only 1,800…"
This News Paper article describes the newly opened Food Service buidling which contains two employee cafeterias, multiple walk in freezers, trash bins in refrigerated rooms to prevent smell and rot, an air pump at the entrance to prevent flies from…