6 Comments Posted by maman01

yes I remember you now, John. I remember the kim chick as well. What do you do now? hope you are well and successful! I hate that places like that made kids unable to move on because in some ways they are still there and have lost personal pride or feel shame about it...I had a friend who killed himself at 22 because the lack of pride and low self esteem made him sink into a depression that he could never get out off...lost a lot off friends who went through the DSS nightmare of the 80's...that organization kept me till I was 17 then put me into an apartment in my senior year, it is amazing I did not kill myself by accident by party! I wish I could go back and tell those kids in there how little all that meant to the reality of the long term that would be their lives. How that seemingly mighty building would fall into disuse and disrepair and we would go on. And how those little people that seemed so powerful would be revealed as low paid lackies on a power trip for want of better work...that this too would come to pass for all of us and to just smile and bide our time

John, I lived on D ward with fat Jack and the hook, LOL...remember Sharon...cute girl with long curly hair...Jack liked to touch her. Wasn't there a fat black kid (kermit???) there in 81? I also remember anthony S...funny bastard...believe he is incarcirated now. I remember the sneak down to the girls side of D ward. It was durning the summer of 81, and there was punishment for that. I was asked to go, but I was chickenshit and didn't want to. Dated a girl on E ward, Karen D for a week or two, we made out in Dianne's rec center near the payphone in the hallway. I carved her initails into my arm and got into trouble for it...the scars are still visible and I need to cover them with a new tatoo...at least you can't read the initails anymore. I think we may have known one another during my brief stint there. do you remember Rhys?

the tunnel doesn't connect, John. It dead ends.

I agree a documentary on this place would be eye opening for the general public...I wonder how many people I may know from this site....very interesting. I visited this place after it closed and wander through it's vacant halls and found a mural on the 4th floor where I stayed. LOL it said "we are going on a field trip and never coming back". I felt liberated to go there and realise that I survied this place, I made a good life for myself and got a college education and enjoy my success. My it rot in hell...PS, Motts did you have fun trying to get by the trampaline in the stairwell, LOL

I lived there for a month in 1981, ya this was the activity room and we socialized there...this place sucked. Funny because now I am an EMT and take psychs to the hospital all the time. I have a good demeanor with them because I understand that these kids usually are abused and are pissed. Gaebler was abusive in a lot of ways, there was sexual abuse between staff and kids, I had a staff member who stole my money for drugs on a daily basis...being restrained for no reason other then power struggles and the showing who's boss with staff. Very horrible experience....FYI I do remeber Dallas and Dianne, LOL.

when you encounter a welded door in an abandoned hospital, you don't try to go in, someone went to a lot of work to make sure that you didn't get in, could be anything back there: radioactive material, structual instability, or zombies...there is a welded door like that at the Med State in Waltham before they knocked it down