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I love the contrast between the peeling paint, and the clean lamp shade!

That sounds pretty horrific for sure; I am continuously amazed this place remained in operation for so long. Thanks for commenting.

We didn't really try for it - it was out in the open, and it also looked pretty well secured, powered, and most likely alarmed.

Yup looks like an old copper fixture!

Wow, I didn't know about the light bulbs, that's pretty amazing! Thank you for posting your memories.

Curved window glass! Cool. As expensive as those are even today, that must have been something to see when I was new :-).

I used to deliver supplies from the stores to the wards, and was always nervous on East 2, especially when patients started to run along the walls at you.
Although I never saw it, I was told there was a padded room where a patient would be locked in when the staff could not control them.
They were often doing things to themselves whilst sitting on their beds, if you know what I mean.

Where is this? The address I mean. I want to visit..

I got Black Lung from smoking three packs of unfiltered Camel cigarettes a day!

Patrick, you are very welcomed,let me know if you have any trouble getting your records, I will try and help you if I can.....

Patrick, that is great that you and Sandy were together, she really was a great girl, and I know Mike Ingram because he was on my Ward D when I was there, he has such cool hair lol Yes, Tricia Grant was a wild one, we were bestfriends at St.Anne's aka Germaine Lawrence School for girls in Arlington,Mass, I hated that she left and got put in at Gaebler, we wrote to each other all the time when she was there, when she got out, we lost touch. I honestly had the best of friends there, there is no friends like those friends and that is because we all understood each other and we all went through hell there with each other. I do stay in contact with Danny, he was the love of my life since I was 11 years old, and yes, I am married now with 2 daughters and my husband is amazing,but, you never got over your first true love, and my husband knows all about Danny and has actually talked to him,and I have seen him several times in the past couple of years. I hope you are doing well, after being at Gaebler I have become very closed off, I don't trust easily and I never seem to be able to believe things that people say, that I am atesting to being at Gaebler, because we were lied to on a daily basis, verbally mentally,physically and even some sexual abused. I am for sure a strong person, I will not let anyone walk all over me, being there was hell,but,like I said,I made the best of friends and I do talk to 7 of them. I have a fb page, and I have video's and pictures of Gaebler on it, my name is Michelle Woods-Person,if you are on it, friend request me and you can see my pictures and video's, hope to chat with you soon......