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Just meshing around, eh
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One door for Abbott, the other for Costello?
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In the foreground at the left, it looks like something in the wall for kids to crawl through. Is it a tunnel or a storage space?
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Maybe they were trying to keep something IN. Cool shot.
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What's next, Koko the Clown?
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I guess the flyers weren't as mobile as the phones.
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Only thing I've seen rooms like this used for was storage. They could have had filing cabinets in there too.
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Jewels? Well, I guess someone mined some, so...
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One of my favorite shades of green! I like the style of window too.
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Hi Pookie,

I haven't checked this site for awhile, so I didn't respond to you -sorry!

No, I was never a patient at Gaebler. I'm just interested in it because I volunteer at a nearby psychiatric hospital. Plus I like to jog at Rock Meadow.

Your stories seem strange to me because the kids I work with don't really get "privileges" or anything like that. If a kid wants to leave the house for a bit I take them for walks all the time. I play basketball with them - but these kids REALLY suck :-) This is honestly the first time in my life I've ever been considered good at basketball.

I think the biggest change is how mental disease is managed. The kids I know stay in the program for a 2 months tops. Then they are managed through other systems. Keeping kids in a hospitalized setting seems cruel and really expensive.

Anyway, I'm super glad to hear you're doing well, and I hope the town does something nice with the land, although I doubt there's any budget for it right now.
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its such a shame to see such a beautifull building go to waste when they drove a load of diggers through it :(. But then it was probably more cost effective to knock it down and rebuild, than refurbish
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disturbed patients perhaps?
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no taps, no sinks and no soap dispencers, waaah! :(
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Hmmm, I can almost Imagine Steve McQueen getting sent to the Kooler as in the film The Great Escape. But I dont understand the observation window if this was a walk in chiller or a punishment cell
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they look more like a pair of 80's cookers, assuming that the pipes going to them are for gas