61 Comments Posted by JIM

I would like to visit the memorial. Can anyone furnish me with the address for Letchworth Village Cemetery. Cannot find the address listing in the yellow pages. Thanks.

Please make that into a background, its awesome

it was the game facination. the players would roll small rubber balls up wooden ramps from a sitting position. the balls would fall thru one of 24 holes at the top of the ramp that were lined up in rows forming a grid. each hole had its own value. whoever got a block or a full row in his grid first would win the round. the value of the winning holes were added up which determined the value of the prize to be given out.

For Jim H.....Thanks for the refer to the photos of what the place used to look like. The chapel was beautiful! It's a custom that when a church closes the pews and religious artifacts are donated to parishes either renovating existing facilities or building new ones. I hope the materials from Salesian found suitable homes.

Hello...I found Dominic Savio - seems he was a saint.

Does anyone know what building was in front of the school, closer to the road? It's gone now, except some bits of the stone foundation - an interesting ruin.
Also, who was Dominic Savio? There's a memorial to him on the same knoll as the water tower.
I like the photo, by the way. I have to get out there with my camera, too.

I am in the room with several people who grew up at the school.Their opinion is that it should burn to the ground!

He said he had never been there. But he's sure it must have been a friend of his that lived around there.
Lol, i think he was a bit suprised to see it there though.

I love the site, all the pictures are amazing.
This one jumped out at me because of the word "SANE". The reason for this is that i believe it may have been my uncle (or one of his friends) that painted that there years ago. When he was younger, he use to do alot of graffiti, and that word he seemed to tag all over the city. He even has it tattooed in that exact text style on his leg. I'll have to show him this picture and see if he remembers if it was him.
Thanks for the awesome pictures, im fasinated with old buildings and id love to visit some of these some day. Jim

where are all those military engines now

Looks like a lot of people knew what it was,
I was a signalman during the 60's and spent many hours using flag hoist, semaphore and flashing light.

Wow, your pictures are chilling and haunting. The corridors and rooms are reminiscent of the old CI Psych Center buildings me and my friends used to wander through when we were kids. Exceptional photos, brought back some old memories.

Looking at CNN today 04/04/07 , some portion of this complex is on fire.

I lived about a 1/2 mile from the hospital (on Bell Station Rd.) until I was 10 yrs. old. This was from 1967 - 77. I remember a fully functioning hospital. I vividly remember at Christmas the hospital would put up a big star on the hill facing 450. It was exciting to see it lite up at night. Boring but true!

I think that the alter used to be used as a place for Catholic mass on Sunday Mornings. The priest at the church in town used to serve the residents of the school