56 Comments Posted by Helen

aagghhhh....to real 8(

Reminds me of Rome

somebody did not liked tv or the film what was on :)

i m now officially addicted to this site..the best...gives me quivers all over .....
and this picture makes my teeth ache
thank you Motts for this site

super neat. reminds me of my days using meth and ampethamines.

Patients were allowed outside, unattended and had boyfriends/girlfriends and got together. There were births and the babies were adopted. When my mother drove to PSH for the overnight stay to see if I would like to school there, we saw a black man walking arm-in-arm with a white, very pregnant woman.... looked ahppy and cozy together... it was a beautiful day for a walk... didn't see mixed couples very much back then...
This was an adult facility, BTW, to address someone's question on an earlier photo. Kids weren't admitted here.. there were other state facilities... a famous one was Willowbrook State School but that was in Staten Island... made Geraldo Rivera famous in his expose in the 1970's, but Long Island had state facilities for kidsin Huntington or somewhere not too far from there... I can't remember just now, where we as PSH students had to go for MHMR training. As a student I didn't see physical abuse, but lots of verbal abuse.. from the 'attendants' who were not well educated and 'institutionalized' in the true sense of the word, as well as the patients were...

I hope this guy Wayne is 15 years old and is planning to grow up some. There is no respect shown here and I just shake my head. I went to school at Pilgrim, still keep in touch with some of my nursing school friends and cherish the memories.

I went to school there between 1969 -1972. I have great memories of the place... Good school and great education. scarey at times to live there. foreboding and all. Will always remember Ma Specht, our house mother. Saddens me to see the ruins...

It looks like a picture from a 1950"s murder mystery. Very nice pic.

This type of picture always makes me wonder... who's shirt is that? why did they just leave their shirt? did they forget and just never go back? wtf

I would like to know when this photo was taken. I went to school at Pilgrim back in the '60s.