11 Comments Posted by cindy

I started my career at Bethlehem Steel. I worked at all 4 locations. My job also took me to Acme Steel. I was there when all those plants were in full operation...when coal was crushed and charged to ovens to make Coke, when melts were tapped and molten steel flowed...thank you for the memories!

I graduated from SLPC in 1978. I remember the vast rooms and the shock therapy chambers. A lot of history there. It was once a very productive place, a farm on the grounds and the women used to make gorgeous quilts and rag rugs. They had a sale every year and my grandmother used to take us to the State Hospital sale in the spring. I still have one of the beautiful quilts she purchased.

WORKED THERE UNTIL CLOSURE IN 1996. MANY FRIENDS, SOME STILL WITH ME. MANY MORE MEMORIES WILL BE WITH ME FOREVER. I GREW UP IN SO MANY WAYS THERE. i WILL ALWAYS TREASURE THE TIME SPENT THERE.

I live in Rochester, and I love how you got something so scummy here to look so great. Kudos.

i agree

I worked there in the 80's we used to have staff parties/dances in this building. I workd in C-8 which was taken over by Woohaven becasue the clients were dually diagnosised, mental health/mental health/mental retardation. They were elderly.

What a place!!

Lynne, thank you so much. My email address is ccouch@shallowaterisd.net. Please write hospital on the subject line. Thanks so much.
Cindy

Lynne,
My students are presenting One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for competition in March. They have begun the process of researching the issues of the sixties as well as life in state hospitals. During 1963, what were an orderlies' duties as well as a nurse's while patients were in group therapy? Also, I don't know whether you are familiar with the play/movie, but the patients range from nonconformists to the ill. What medication was given during this time? I am asking everyone's help here. What were the side effects of the medicine? My kids want to get this right and make these characters human, not caricatures. I have read, with interest, all of the comments. Motts, the pictures are haunting and tell stories. What a talent!

Hey Josh G , Speedy's son...I actually babysat for you...and of course Speedy...what more can a person say but..."It's a grand night for singing!". And yes...that carpeting was a bit puzzeling even back then ! But we were there..........

I tend to check out this site from time to time to see what is new with the old hospital. For at least 10 years this hospital has drawn my attention and it totally makes me upset that there is talk of tearing down the buildings, not preserving them as museum or having some type of county funded ghost tours. What I do not understand is like what sandy above wrote, how did you get the pictures? Do you work for MCPPC? I know back in my younger years and we went to the sight, cops would be on our tale within a matter of minutes, what makes you so special to get these pics? How did you not get caught. And because you have all this information, are you going to try to have the county preserve this historical ground or just let it get bull-doze when they put in the old folks home or the golf course. My last question, how come we can talk to you via email or chat? How will our questions be answered? Your site is not interactive. I am very curious being a PG county native for 26 years and a teenage who did the same thing about 10 years ago.