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this place looks really cool to wonder through where is it on the property?

i was under the impression that it was a cremstory to until i saw the dryer inside and when i walked in...it may sound crazy but i heard a woman talking and i wasnt the only one that heard it

i went to glendale but i didnt see where this place was...where is it?

The soap dispenser crack lives on :P! (Some people probably are really confused, right now!)

Looking at my friend Buck's pilfered Byberry blueprints, I discovered that there were never any tunnels going from the main complex to the E's. There was an 8-inch diameter steam pipe that went under the Roosevelt Blvd, but that was it.

Beautiful details. Such a waste to tear it down. One more reason to boycott Walmart.

Only if they were a sick SOB.

I have had many a client who was nonverbal who had hidden abscesses, etc., who would engage in severe aggression or self-injurious behavior because they couldn't communicate their pain or show you where it hurt.

Having had a root canal myself 6 months ago and going through some of the most exquisite pain I have ever been through while waiting the l--o--n--g weekend to get to the dentist, I know how bad this can be.

Every dentist I have ever met who works with folks with handicapping conditions does their best to get them in and out ASAP, because most of these folks don't understand why their mouth hurts or why some stranger is sticking their hands and large sharp pieces of metal in their mouth.

Since you have to have assistants when you do dental work, if you did something wonky there would usually or always be witnesses. I am having a hard time envisioning a mad dentist out to wreak terror in the mouths of these folks.

Now, were there (and are there) many dentists who do not understand the health care issues associated with handicapping conditions? Yes, most decidedly so. We have a hell of a time getting dentists to work with our folks. It's hard enough to get you and me (or even ~Me) to a dentist - we all act like idiots and try to hurt the nice dentist, don't we? And we have some vague cognitive glimmer of why they are doing what they do. If you don't have the ability to understand what is going on, either because of a mental illness or a learning disability, you aren't the most cooperative participant in the dental process. If I were a dentist I would think twice (and then 7 more times) about working with either of these groups. However, I am MORE than thankful for those hardy souls who do this work. It is one of the hardest services to get in the community, as people aren't running out to volunteer in droves.

Unless I am misunderstanding your comment.

Ok i went there last night and there are painting on the windows its very pretty

it Iooks cool. can hardly believe it used to float.

Hello, darlin'. I didn't mean you specifically. Institutionalization is such a hot-button topic these days that for anyone to talk about it "in public" means they are going to be skewered, whichever side of the issue they take.

Did they do the same thing to the tunnel leading to the E buildings as they did to the tunnel underneath southampton Rd.?

I was 5 in 1985. Its hard to believe the "Golden age of Asylum" was still pretty prevalent back then, it wasn't really that long ago-or at least it seams it wasn't that long ago

My mom was committed to that hospital in 1953. She lost everything: her home, her family, her identity. The only records I ever obtained were of her very first 'treatment' (not sure where) which consisted of 13 electric shock treatments in 14 days. I found her 40 years later, still 'intact' carrying only her integrity- and somehow she had managed to maintain it. She had been released after only the first 7 years of commitment, and lived in and out of foster homes the rest of the time, and her life. Everyone I met who had any contact with her thought she was a wonderful woman. I think that the New York system took very good care of here, generally speaking. She died at 74 with little notice, in Buffalo, New York where she spent her entire life. Am working on a manuscript and your site came up as the first source of history. Thanks for you work.

You sound as though you speak from experince? I have seen many pic's of asylums, but funny none of them i could see padded rooms in them. Mostly what I have seen is seclusion rooms.

I was researching and I found out that in some cases things like teeth back then could be come of the causes to drive a person insaine( of course we know this is false). I know they more likely would have a dentists office or equipment because even mentaly ill people need cleanings and ect., but sometimes i wonder if they were painfully pulling teeth in their dentist chairs for no reason, other than to try to cure their mental issues