1,845 Comments Posted by joe

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Last comment is mine but I want to add what dredged up memories of Letchworth. Ran into a man named Alvin yesterday who was institutionalized at Letchworth from the age of 7 to age of 22. It's criminal that his youth was spent there. Somehow a man who never should have been institutionalized was and no one did much about it.
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Every saturday for years starting in 1952 my family came to Letchworth to see and visit with my brother Nick who was institutionalized. I remember the sadness and the dreariness but I also remember walking thru the fall leaves with my sisters and walking on the ice at the lake near the hospital. My mom is surprised that the 3 of us could have pleasant memories as well as the darker memories of Letchworth.
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on the grounds is ck post a drug rehab they say in the underground tunnels patients were raped by doctors they say ghost's haunt the place
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fantastic set of photos and so fitting with Halloween right around the corner

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!!
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looks more like a handbag and not a coffin
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so regal looking so beautiful
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it is so beautiful to see how people honored their dead way back when. Nowadays we stick them in boxes in the ground. These coffins thank god were not put in the ground to decay
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looks so peaceful, yet kinda creepy
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hate to sound like a broken record, but this photo is amazing Mr. Motts.
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wonder what it looked like when it was brand new. It looks better now with age
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why was this buried on the outside and not with the body?
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that is an amazing photo Mr. Motts. Just incredible
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such beautiful detail on something that is so sad to look at
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Are you sure the opening on the lid is the body as it was trying to get out. Maybe they were put in there but werent dead yet
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makes you wonder if people were beaten with those