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April 8, 2009

Walls fly off ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ hospital

  • Part of the 125-year-old J Building where the movie was filmed will be turned into a museum; most will be removed to make way for a new 620-bed mental hospital.
    • By BRAD CAIN
    Associated Press Writer

    Photo by Gary Whitehouse/Oregon Department of Human Services [enlarge]
    Demolition began Monday on Oregon State Hospital's J Building.

    SALEM, Ore. — Workers from Konell Construction on Monday began tearing down part of the Oregon State Hospital building where Jack Nicholson played a rebellious patient in the 1975 film classic “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”


     
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