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On another note, the taller building kind of looks like public housing to me......just a thought.....

The two story wing is probably from the 1940's or 1950's. The four story building is straight out of the 1960's or early 1970's (what color is that anyway, Harvest Gold?). Older resorts (such as the Pines) always tried to do more modern add-ons that almost never related to the original structure. Whats really weird about this place is the use of pastels everywhere, especially in the mountains, thats a new one on me.......

Slim - Rock was definitely unforgettable! I heard he is still around Fallsburg, driving a cab.

Howie - yeah, I'm sure we were there at the same time as well - and I think we hung out with many of the same people. Tom (not Tom-Tom from here), Chris, Steve D., Sue, Nancy, etc

My name and date would be in the last room on the right, down the mid length hallway that has the door directly at the end on Ward B, it would be JD '73 or '74, might even say John.
Would be on the wall to the left as you enter the room.
Some will be written like "was here '73".
Just food for thought for anyone else wanting to look for more history.

If anyone does anymore pictures, the best places to find where we wrote our names and dates are on the inside of the seclusion doors, around the windows in the seclusion rooms and above the door in the seclusion rooms.
You may find some names and dates in the bathrooms too as well as the shower room.

love to sail again,but too old now.

I need to make a correction here.
On the 1st floor when I said take a right, it should be a left. I need to start proof reading before I hit submit.
So coming from the stairwell you take a left and go down the small flight of stairs which has the door to the print shop and woodshop directly in front with the cafetiere door to the right.

There are classrooms up on the 4th floor that
was used by the children housed on Ward B.
They did keep the children from Ward B separated from the teenagers on Wards D and
E.
The medical and dental was also on the 4th floor.
That's the basic "tour" of Gaebler.
Although there is a rumor of a tunnel somewhere in the basement that is supposed
to connect to Metro, I have never seen it, nor have I ever been in the basement.

and yes, there is a small flight of stairs at this end of the hallway too that leads into the large room used for coffee hour.

If you go back through the door and into the stairwell, you head up to the 3rd floor, as you walk out from the door, Ward E is to the left and Ward B was to the right.
There is also an elevator right next to the door to the stairs.
Now,back to the main floor, the 1st floor.
Leaving the stairwell you take a right, there is a small flight of stairs here with a door directly in front, and a door to the right, the door directly in front lead into the print shop, which was on the left back in 1973 or 1974, and the woodshop was on the right back then, further down the hallway was other rooms that did other activities like sewing and arts and crafts.
Coming back out and standing at the bottom of the small flight of stairs is the door , that I said is to the right, this door lead into the kitchen, not the cafetiere pro se.
This was setup like a prison mess hall line, you would grab a tray and walk down the line to get your food, then when you was done you would find a table in the main cafetiere to eat.
After eating you left through a door that lead back out into the hallway. The print shop and woodshop is now to the right.
There is the blue door with a glass window that has metal wires in it, this leads out to freedom, this is where you first enter the place, where Mr.Heathwood had his office.
The main lobby had snack and soda machines.
Going left you come to the door that opens into a large room, this room was where they had coffee hour every saturday and sunday morning.
We would get together and have coffee and listen to music.
Motts, or anyone who has been here, do you remember this?
If memory serves, I think back in 1981 or 1982 the print shop and woodshop was made into classrooms.

Look at that stone and tell me you guys don't see a laughing skull.

geezus, how appropriate

Come to think of it, I was in seclusion on all 4 wards at one time or another.
Out of the 4 wards only 3 was used to house children back when I was there, 1973 or 1974 and then again in 1981 or 1982.
The wards that did house children was, pre-teen, was Ward B.
Teenagers was housed on Wards D and E.
The 4th ward, which was on the 2nd floor, was to the left as you come through the door from the stairs.
This ward was used for daycare.
No one lived on this ward.
I was placed in the seclusion rooms on this ward a few times as well.
Still, on the 2nd floor if you turn right from the stairs you will come to Ward D. Now, in this hallway there is, if memory serves correct, a door that had a pool table in it. further down the hallway, going to the right, was a big double door, this lead into the gym.
Motts, do you have pictures of this?

I see a skull. Its like the old EC comics way back in the day.

I can't look at any more of these stones.........

If you look at that stone long enough, you begin to see a sort of.....head, a skull.

It just looks so cold and bleak. Powerful.