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If it's Latin it translates to " [You] Go behind the Sun [and]..." Maybe some uplifting quote along the lines of 'after the rain, sun'? Interesting though...

this is too awesome motts!

dangerous

i really do like that flower

I was a student here (same classwith Tim Lennox & others) from 1964 to 1968. It is truly sad to see the old place in ruins. I have many memories, happy and otherwise, but I credit the education I received as setting me up for life. I will always cherish those days and the friends I made.

Hi,came across your site. if its the one nr longridge, my mother worked there she was only a young girl at the time. and told us some really horrible storys off her time there. its the frist time i have seen a photo off the place.very strange place, and yet looks really lovley building .thanks

great pictures- how did you go in?

I worked there in 1968-1969. The place then was cold (indoor snowballs, anyone?) ugly and abusive. Attendants would regularly beat residents with their squared gimp key lanyards. No complaints would be heard about this because it required two witnesses for a complaint to be filed--and residents weren't eligible to be witnesses. To go to meals, residents were "issued" random shoes from a pile of old junk with no regard to fit. Then everyone walked through the tunnels which were mostly dark due to missing light bulbs. This gave the cockroaches free reign, crunching underfoot, and occasionally eaten by some poor resident. I was regularly yelled at for taking the time to remove cockroaches from the milk before I poured it for the girls. They had NO activities, no toys, and really nothing to do all day. Only a select few actually went to "school" on the campus. No privacy anywhere--and even the toothbrushes were often distributed randomly. The only dental care was extraction when the infections got bad enough. I could continue on, but it's making me sick to remember it all. There were back wards with deformed people in cages. This was around the time "Titicut Follies" was filmed and the miserable "care" of the less fortunate humans was despicable all over the state.

Carolyn, 1947 ! We lived in Bowie. My father was Head of Landscaping at Glendale Hospital. Did your father drive the taxi in Bowie area? That was so long ago and such a small town ... didn't know of a taxi then. Later: Charlie Woods drove the Bowie taxi.

My father was the Head of Landscaping. The hospital grounds were beautiful. Springtime and azaleas. Christmas decor: Wilfred Abell and his boss, Mr. Heizer did much planning and traffic was heavy thru the grounds during the holidays . Most of the people I knew as a child were Glendale Hospital employees.

Raputa the Buta. I haven't heard that one for awhile. I thought my silly sisters and I were the only ones around who used it.

Zip line with live wires. LOL , I can see Mama surrounded by all the little electric zigzaggy things like in cartoons.

I actually remember this ride. My parents were from RI and they moved to VA when they got married. We always vacationed in RI and my dad used to take me to Rocky point. Wow awesoem memories. Wish the park was still around.

I heard that the top of the smokestack broke off during the recent earthquake.... true?

I just have 1 word... Creepy.

If I would spent one night in this hospital, for any reason I would be shitting my pants, I might even get a heartattack. It gives me the chills brrr.

I just don't understand why everything looks like it is left in hurry. I know it is abandoned for some reason, but it feels to me something really bad has happened. Creeepy.