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wont lie but ive sat in the chair right there before, the morgue is creepy though at night. i definetly didnt sleep that night after being down there in that basement

Actually, this looks like the part of the building in which we were allowed to smoke! It was a basement lounge with a tv ("That Was the Week That Was"). Mine was one of the last classes to be able to live in Halcyon - firetrap!

that place isnt torn down me and my friends go down there and walk around it is very creepy

An errand upstate took me through Millbrook last Friday and I took a sad and nostalgic stroll all around the old Bennett campus. I was a student there in '65 and '66. A rig is drilling a well in the front lawn; the operator told me the place will be demolished to make way for condos. I stood in the courtyard and could see into my old classrooms, I peeked into a plywooded doorway and saw the columns in the old design studio, I summoned images and memories of the dining room where we sang to classmates who came back from spring weekends with engagement rings. I conjured up names and faces of girls (we weren't women then) I haven't thought about for years. I'm amused to read comments about the place being haunted; if so, it's just by a bunch of post adolescent females anguishing over most of the same things the spook-hunters are going through. Goodbye, girls; goodbye Bennett.

hi functioning behaviour retards is what this place was., that means they have a bit of smarts to them,usually directed at you.or another one for a reason.i had as many as 14 alone usually i had 10.we allways had enough material for themand any unit that lets urine go to amonia is a crappy unit. those who worked there and complained of smell might have gotten a mop and cleaned it up.I cleaned up 16 tons a shit and puke no doubt, and i finally got a pension. it was a job.and pay was better than what ever eklse i got.besides i did some good stuff, but mostly it was training them. and training consisted of teaching them not to fuck with you. (they did anyways allways). they would stalk female staff, blind side you,shit on the floor scoop it up and eat it while they stared in your eyes and grinned at you.right out trying to take your head off, if you dont think you werent fighting then you were of no use.and in take downs getting severly biyt or head butted was a hazard. I was lucky for the most part.but here is the method. smearing feces , do not feed,stalking attacking staff, tie up and beat the shit out of them.general purpose control, keeping your radar tuned and never get the i king shit attitude. see I can grab table legs too, and IO can be even worse then them. that is the way they wanted it.and yu do it cuz that is the way to run an unit with best smooth function.cutting off air supply and other little manuevers helped. cops do many worse things cuz i seen em in the one or two times i got locked up therefor an hour or two.only a fool antagonizes a jailer.when they delivered them to us they always liked to hand it all over to us and we just told the mto let us take the cuffs on when we think it ok.spiting , you wrap their t-shirt over their head and jerk it around and disorient them. i am not tallking innocent babies these guys were adult males. and the females were just as bad, and if you went easy on them you got hurt bad.so there friends dont judge cuz that is the way things are.

George Clooney wore one of these on his head in "Solaris"

looks like something Courtney Love would wear

I dont know where this is located but would love to go through it and photograph it. Yes I would take some items for myself, but would never sell them. Its just so sad when you see what is left behind and it will be thrown out.

I believe in preserving the past.

would love to have one of those chairs

can just imagine the talks of the past in this room....honey you would like GREAT in a BEEHIVE! Especially with the new pineapple earrings you bought at Woolworths

Beware of the plants....they are known to eat the guest

hey check it out Norman Bates found a new hotel

TOM TOM , cool. diet coke. lots of coffee. no tuna. how much room in your car? i pack heavy. maybe Lynne can ride with us too. or should we rent a partridge family bus?

tacky tacky tacky! the sad part is if that tub could talk about some of the crazy nights it saw...........it would SCREAM!

love everything about this shot. The couches are really cool and the light fixture is AWESOME! wish they would bring this place back to life