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Just want to say Thank You for these shots. I just happened to be looking today and found this site. My attendance at the school seems so long ago but it is part of my personal landscape. Perhaps it is because it was at a time when everything was an experience. My memories hold the school when it was a vibrant, living place of learning and growing up. Perhaps one should also offer that Goshen was (is) a beautiful town in New York. When I had my Sundays with my family we would go to the restaurant with the racetrack (Home of the Trotter ..?) which was a great place. Each week, usually Thursday afternoon, we would go for a walk in the town as part of our schedule. Just walking and talking and enjoying the environment. So many lives in that place. The later dark history. The changes. ..and now decline. The shots and memories are great here. Again, thanks for the time and thoughts. Deo Gratias.

Wow, what a flashback ! I had forgotten about being a waiter in the dining hall. I remember reading to the students on the PA and later went on to be a dishwasher and later a waiter to the faculty here in the building. That was a "big deal" then. I still have the crest for my jacket pocket...it says, "Quis Ut Deus ?" Anyone remember that ?

Are you Laszlo Kovacs? '59-'60 ?

I lived there for a year, we had showers and privacy was maintained. That was the same shower room & the curtains were cloth/canvas. It was '59-'60.

I was there for a year '59-'60. I think Fr. Rinaldi was there even then. He was kind to us and had a great personality. If I remember, he wore a cape alot...we called him Fr. Drac (ula). I wonder if it was the same man. He would hve been just starting out with your group Ralph.

I attended Salesian School '59/'60 =8th grade. Fr.Bob Savage was Prefect of Studies. Fr.Adam Saluppo was there (now buried there). Brother Benny, not a sweet heart. It was a good school. The dining hall was in the "mansion" or admin building. I used to read to the students on a PA system there for the first 15 minutes of lunch( Hardy Boys/Tom Swift Jr. etc.), then we were allowed to talk. Study Hall, Jug Slips, Saturday Eve. had TV (usually Bonanza) if you didn't have a Jug Slip to deal with. The slips were given to you if you did something considered "bad conduct." You did time (in the Jug) in study hall, when others could go to recreation/watch TV or whatever. I thought so much of it that I went on to their Junior Seminary at West Haverstraw, N.Y. Eventually I went back home to finish high school in Jersey. Anyway, Salesian was a good school for me. Sad to see it decline. Perhaps it will be reclaimed and go on in another way.....education hopefully.

I think these vandals are compensating for a really small Johnson. Or they're just idiots.

Stunning workmanship. Beautiful use of light.

Its just a optical allusion or is it ?

Beautiful doors. Those would be worth a fortune at a home salvage yard.

i saw that chair but it as in long hallway just sitting in the middle it was pitch black. shinned the light down there and that was the only thing in the hallways directly in the middle it was scary lol

i half way went in this room.. Went into that hospital with bout 10 people back in July 2003 that place was insane in there.. floors missing water everyplace electric chair haha... I love to do research on that place.. cant find nothing interesting though.

With the roof open, it won't be long till the place comes down. Nature reclaims everything eventually. Man might delay it, but he won't ever stop it. Even the Pyramids of Giza will eventually be gone.

With the decay it won't be long before it comes down. Thanks for preserving it through photography.

Thanks! This is my new wallpaper. Love this shot.